The Springfield herald., 1906-04-06
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The Supreme Court of the United
States took recess March 18th for
two weeks.
John Alexander Dowie Of Chicago
is again in the City. of Mexico and is
reported to be much improved in
health.
A record price, $4,000, was paid
few days ago at a London auction
room, for c prize orchid from col
lection Of H. r. Pitt.
Andrew Carnegie has offered $4,000
to complete the $250,000 endowment
fund now being raised by the Western
College for Women at Hamilton. Ohio.
The Spanish ministry of war Is or.
ganizing four strong flying columns for
the suppression of agitation by the
Carlists, according TO dispatch from
Barcelona.
The Louvre theater at Juneau,
Alaska, has burned down and John
King, who did the fire-eating act in the
company playing there, was cremated,
being the only victim.
The steamer Urmstom Grange. car
rying the Commercial Cable Com
pany's Pacific cable which is to be laid
between Guam and Japan has arrived
at the island of Guam.
The United States floating dry dock
Dewey, en- route to the naval station
at Olongapo, Philippine Islands. left
the Canary Islands March 18th, pro
posing to call at Gibraltar.
Six hundred Macedonian emigrants
left Belgrade, Servia. March 18th, for
the United States by way of Fiume.
nf cuff Hni
to permit of their entering the United
States.
Directly after the arrival OF the new
Japanese ambassador at Washington,
Mr.. Hioki, the first secretary of the
embassy, will leave for Japan on leave
Of absence. Mr.. Hioki, 1t is expected,
will be appointed head af legations.
The first smoking car ever reserved
for women in Great Britain left big
London terminus a few days since for
Liverpool. The windows bore label
reading: Ladies' Smoking" The in
novation attests the spread OF smoking
among English women during recent
years.
Fire In the Haverhill, Massachu-
sets, Manual Training School and
High School Annex imperiled more
than $50 boys and girls, and, although
mainly because of GOODNESS and gener-
alship of the teachers. no lives were
lost, although a few were slightly In
jured.
The only robbery occurring on the
Chicago Northwestern near Galena,
according TO an official of the road,
was that of the Tower w robbery, near
De Kalb, forty miles from Galena. That
,,,.hl IN M q
the perpetrators in the neighborhood
Of sac 900.
A score OF original manuscripts OF
bmous works of Nathaniel Hawthorne
were damaged by fire which de-
stroyed the home of his son, Julian
Hawthorne, in Yonkers, N. Y. few
days ago. Several of the manuscripts
were destroyed and others were badly
damaged by water.
On March cath NJ. Jaques Fauye OF
the Aero Club de France made bal
loon voyage from st. Cloud across the
Vosger mountains and the Rhine, and
descended the next morning. at Galden
bach in Hesse Nassau. The distance
of 500 kibumeters t325 miles) was GOV
cred in thirteen hours.
On recent voyage from New York
| to Cherbourg and Hamburg the
steamer Deutschland maintained q
continuous communication by wireless
telegraph with the station at Lizard
| Head, Cornwall, from distance OF
1000 miles out from Lizard Head, un
til she reached Plymouth.
Three men are in Belem prison
| Mexico, under sentence of death for
having killed in Toluca, capital of the
| al a IN, Nl-h
they believed to be a witch. Belief III
witchcraft prevails among the lower
classes in the rural regions and many
crimes have resulted from the super
jsstition.
The most unique motor In this coun
Try will be an armored auto which {;
| New Mexico mining man, c. S. Hen
shaw. is having made in Boston for use
in the Southwest in the transportation
Of gold from his mines. The machine
is to be built on tho plans of the Ger
man military auto, armored, and will
| carry two rapid fire guns.
The American church of st. Paul in
Rome was crowded Sunday, March
25th, on the occasion of the thirteenth
| anniversary of its conservation. Bishop
In. C. Potter, who read the service
preached. Bishop Potter's father cele
| brated the first service in the Ameri'
can church in Rome in 1859, when it
| was held in private house.
That the high prices of meat in Ger
many have driven some of the kaiser
people to eating dogs and cats. as well
enormous quantities of horseflesh, is
the startling revelations of the Prus
sian slaughter house statistics Just
published In the course of the last
year 81, 600 horses and 1,072 dogs were
butchered for human consumption.
It is stated that Swift & Co. will
buildin million dollar packing plant
at Portland, Oregon. The output will
be 500 cattle, 1000 sheep and 1000
hogs per day and employment Will be
provided for 1000 men. The purpose
Of the plant is to enable Swift & Co.
to enter the Alaskan and Oriental
markets. besides furthering their in