The Springfield herald., 1906-07-27


San Francisco by the army transport
Thomas.
West Indian negroes have proved to
be unsatisfactory as canal laborers
Spaniards having been found more de-
sirable, and 1t Is thought that 1t may
yet be found necessary to bring Chi.
nese TO the isthmus before the commits
sion solves the labor problem.
A powder mill near Ashland, wis.
blew up, killing three men and injur-
ing 20.
An Imperial Turkish trade calls H.
900 recruits to the colors for service
at Yemen.
The Chicago & Alton Railway conf
,pany, John N. Faithorn and F. A.
Wann, former officials of the road
have been granted stay of execution
pending an appeal to the United States
court of appeals in the, case in which
they were recently find an aggregate
sum of 100000.
The New York Central Railroad
company is reported to have made
bid of s1S.OOO,OOO for the two Indiana
railroads owned by John r. Walsh
former president Of the defunct Chi
cago National bank.
The federal grand Jury at Cleve.
land, o., which has been investigating
the relations of the Standard Oil conf
pany with the railroads has adjourned
without returning indictments. The
government attorneys discovered that
the acts charged had been committed
in another Jurisdiction.
William Stryker. former state su-
perintendent of public instruction in
Kansas and now editor of the Tulsa,
l. T., Daily Democrat, was assaulted
in that city by Woodson Norvell,
candidate for attorney general.
Eastern Cherokee Indians have ap-
piled to the District of Columbia su-
preme court for an injunction to pre-
vent the United States treasurer from
paying a $4,000 fee to st. Louis and
Vinita attorneys.
The Paris Journal declares that the
emperors of Austria, Germany and
Russia have entered into an alliance
regarding Poland whereby each Is to
protect the interests of the ether In
case of a revolution In that country.
The agrarian outrages continue in
the province of Veronezh, Russia. The
peasants have risen as one man and
in one night recently burned more
than 20 estates and killed several Of
the proprietors.
Martin Flynn, president of the
Peoples Savings bank of Des Mofnes,
Ia, recently committed suicide In
that city by shooting. He was we'll
known throughout the west as a
breeder of shorthorn cattle.
A statement issued by the depart
ment of commerce and labor says the
foreign commerce of the United States
for the, fiscal year just ended aggre-
gated s2,?70, 900, 900.
At the instance of Secretary Taft
the president has directed that Off
GERS in charge of public work must
detect and punish violations Of the
eight hour law.
By the explosion of a 20-gallon tank
of carbide at Greenwood, Ind, Rev.
d. l. Lewis and George. McNeenus
were killed and Harry Lewis was seri-
ously injured The men were pre-
pairing for stereopticon exhibition.
Socorro, New Mexico. has recently
suffered considerable damage from
earthquake shocks, SO being recorded
in less than three days. The Pc
cuniary loss will not be large owing
to the fact that most of the structures
in the town are Of adobe.
Philadelphia has been chosen by
the Elks as the convention city for
next year.
An investigation of the accounts of
the late Maj George A. Bartlett, dis
bursting officer of the treasury depart.
ment at Washington, show a shortage
of s33 900.
In the final battles of the Central
American war Salvador was the VIC
tor, the Guatemalan army retreating
in disorder and leaving arms and am
munition in its camp.
A remarkable instance of the feeling
of Japanese Buddhists and Shintoists
towards Christians is furnished by the
action of their leaders who have
decided to contribute voluntarily
toward the cost of rebuilding the
Christian church which was destroyed
during the disturbances in Toxic last
September.
Fire in Yokohama recently de-
stroyed 1000 Japanese houses.
An application has been filed in
the district court at Des Moines, Ia,
for receiver for the Brotherhood of
American Yeomen, fraterual insur-
ance order operating in the western
states.
A treaty of peace was signed on
board the United States cruiser Mar
blehead between commissioners rep
resenting Salvador, Guatemala and
! Honduras which ends the Central
American war. Resolutions were
adopted thanking the president of the
United States ani Mexico for their
Intervention.
August Rosenberg, the alleged Seat
tle WASH, anarchist who was ar
| rested recently in Altoona, Prussia,
charged with having designs on the
life of Emperor William, has been re-
| leased from custody.
The sailors at Cronstadt recently de-
clined to participate in a requiem for
Vice Admiral ChOuknin