The Springfield herald., 1906-12-07
For four days the 500 immlgran.

from Genoa and Naples were kept
below decks while they pitched and
rolled in a gale which at times as
sumed almost the proportions CT
hurricane.
The auditor for the war department
has admit ed the claim of Col VIII
I liam j. Bryan's regiment. the Third
Nebraska volunteers, for $2s,24o eS'
ira pay during the Spanish war.
w. P. Dilworth, proprietor OF
hardware store at Oklahoma City,
Ok. was shot and badly wounded by
q robber in his store recently.
Samuel Spencer, president of the
Southern Railway system, and one
of the most prominent railroad men
in the country, was killed recently IN
rear end collision near Lyncnbure
! Va. All the occupants of President
Spencers private care, with the ex
csption of a porter and Mr.. Spencer's
secretary, lost their lives.
| AT Kansas City the sixteenth an
nual football game between the Kan
sas and Missouri university teams re-
suited in neither side being able to
score.
Thanksgiving day was celebrated by
Americans in most of the capitals OF
Europe In London 500 guests sat
at the banquet table.
F. d. Coburn's annual crop sum-
mary for Kansas has been issued. The
| total wheat crop for the year was 49,
| 292, $50 bushels. Sumner was the
| OF 4
| els.
United States Senators Warren and
| Clark, of Wyoming. Commissioners
| Richards, of the general land office,
| and George F. Pollock, chief of de-
partment b, interior department, were
charged with interfering with the In
vestigation of coal and land frauds
in Utah and Wyoming, by a special
government agent during the recent
| Interstate commerce investigation at
| Salt Lake.
Mayor Eugene e. Schmitz. mayor of
| San Francisco, was arrested upon
his arrival at Truckee, Cal, under
the recent indictments charging him
| with extortion in office.
Four men were burned to death,
several fatally injured and many
others badly hurt in a fire in the
Salvation Army hotel at st. Louis re-
Gently. Five hundred men were
asleep in the building when the fire
was discovered. Those injured were
hurt by jumping from the windows
| to the sidewalk.
| ha1t ha
| Ricans are entitled to American
citizenship and will recommend that
1t be granted them in special mes
sage to congress.
| AT the first cabinet meeting held
after President Roosevelt's return
from Panama all the members were
present for the first time since the
beginning of the political campaign.
| Herr Won Tschirsky German sec
rotary for foreign affairs, gave a
dinner recently in Berlin to the Amer
lean tariff committee. Many distin-
guished persons of both countries
were present.
The annual report of DR.. S. N.
North, director of the census, shows
that the work cost the government
s235.6G7 less than the amount appro-
priated by congress during the past
year.
| The executive committee of the
Kansas Editorial association has
adopted a resolution favoting an
amendment to the rate bill which
will allow railroads to trade transpor-
tation for newspaper advertising.
A bag containing about $25 in gold
and silver coins was unearthed at
Rulo, Neb. The coins bore dates vary
ing from 1929 to 1856.
The annual report of the military
secretary shows that there were G,25s
desertions from the army for the year
ending June 30 an average of IA for
every 100 soldiers in the army. The
number of desertions has nearly doub
led in the last few years.
An increase of five per cent In the
wages of the employees of the Berk,
shire Cotton Manufacturing company
at Adams, Mass. has been announced
The Japanese have decided to
bridge the Yalu river at Yongampo.
Manchuria. The bridge will cost ST..
100000.
During the nine months of this
year :he exports of lumber from the
| United States amounted to SCI ,oO0,-
600. an increase of 33 per cent over
the same time last year.
| Four out of five men were killed
recently while being raised from the
shaft in mine near Webb City, Mo.
The Tub which they occupied became
| detached from the cable and fell d
distance of 100 feet to the bottom
of the shaft.
fine of $4,000 has been Imposed
upon the American Sugar Refining
company in the federal court at New
York for accepting rebates from the
New York Central Railroad company.
building leased for negro
| school by the board of education of
East s.. Louis was recently destroyed
by fire, supposedly by incendiaries
Two weeks before another building
leased for the same purpose was
/ burned.
Many peasants are reported to be
! In starving condition in the Voloa