The Springfield herald., 1906-06-08
Miscellaneous,

A Toxic dispatch states that fire
at the Kubari colliery on the island of
Hokkaido 41S buildings were destroyed
and nine miners pershed.
DIR. j. l.. Force, former president of
the Northwestern Life Insurance COM
pany of Minneapolis, has been con-
victed of embezZlement.
The 11Sth Presbyterian general as
sembly has concluded its business 1T
Des Moines, Ia. and adjourned to meet
next year at Columbus. o.
Lightning struck in crowd of spec
tators at the ball grounds at Mobile,
Ala. killed five people and injured
about 25 Others
A bench warrant has been issued
for Webb Covington. president of the
last state senate who is charged with
boodling during the last session of the
legislature of Arkansas.
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson is
again under fire. This time he Is ac-
cused of an absolute disregard of the
law authorizing the construction of n
new building for his department.
Tne level of Lake Michigan varied
as much as four feet in one day at
Chicago recently. The sudden change
WIS thought to have been caused by
the wind
Two bombs were recently thrown
into party of Cossacks escorting
Gen Alikhanoff at Borjon. Transcau-
casia. The general and several mem
bers of the escort were seriously in
jured The Cossacks fired indiscrim-
inately into the crowd killing many
persons.
The Missouri supreme court has
affirmed the sentence of death in the
case of Lord Darlington, convicted
of murder at St Louis. He will lie
hung on July &c.
General Greely has made arrange
ments TO the gradual withdrawal OF
troops from San Francisco.
A number of persons We're injured
in Tulsa, L. T., and vicinity recently
during wind storm which broke plate
glass fronts, uprooted trees and leveled
small buildings.
John II. Tennent. Jr, formerly sec
retary of the Tennent Shoe company,
which failed recently at St Louis,
committed suicide at his home in that
city recently.
The warden of the city prison at St
Petersburg was shot and mortally
wounded by an lS-year-old youth.
Memorial day ceremonies at Aring-
ton cemetery at Washington were on
an elaborate scale. Representative
Birdsall, of Iowa, delivered an address
The orator of the day was Rev d. j.
of hn
church.
In an address to Atlanta. Ga, bus
mess men recently Chairman ShontS,
of the Panama canal commission,
took strong grounds in advocacy of
the lock canal system.
The Guatamalan revolutionists, who
attacked Ocos, have been driven back
across the Mexican border.
The first permanent leper colony in
the Philippines has been established
on Culion island and 200 lepers have
been removed there from Cebu.
Armour & Co.'S elevator a. in
Chicago was recently destroyed by
fire causing a loss of 100000.
The indictments recently found
,,
Ok, have been annulled by the district
court.
ieweled decoration worn by King
Alfonso was shattered by splinter of
the bomb which killed 20 persons and
wounded 60 others on his wedding day.
After four days of the stormiest pol
itlcal convention in the history of the
state CougrpSsmnn Malcolm r Pat
terson has been nominated by the
democrats for governor of Tennessee
over the present incumbent, Gov. John
p Cox.
Gov. Pardee. of California, has is
sued a proclamation converting the
state legislature in special session on
June O..
The joint convention of Illinois coal
miners and operators has signed the
scale of wages which holds until March
81, 1908.