The Springfield herald., 1907-03-29

| White house dill not concern politics
in any form. This should settle
lot of newspaper guessing as to the
object of the me- citing.
A lockout of the building trades
unions has been put in effect at
Seattle. Wash.
| Recent heavy rains have caused
disastrous floods in the Sacramento
and other valleys of California.
The entire business section or
Gotcbo, Ok, has been destroyed by
fire. The loss is estimated at $4,000.
The thermometer at Guthrie. OK,
recently registered 102 degrees IN the
shade. breaking all records for heat
in March in the territory.
Dr. Julius H. Weinsberg we'll
known physician of st. Louis WIS
recently shot and badly wounGeI by
his 1S-year-old son.
All the, laborers employed in the
Republic Iron and Steel company in
East Chicago struck recently for
higher wages.
The plans of the battleship Nebras-
ka, which is under construction IN
Wash, have been stolen rom the
desk of the superintendent.
The 18th annual meeting or con-
gress will be held at Muskogee, l. T..
November 10 to %.
The Nebraska supreme court has
decided that Gov. Sheldon need not
pay 500 month rent for the use
of hn iun
of residence.
The Laurel Oil G Gas company are
to build 1000 barrel independent re-
finery at Sapulpa, I. 7.
The store Of Joseph Tulsa, fish
dealer of Philadelphia was recently
wrecked by bomb supposed to have
been thrown into the place by Black
Hand agents.
An American mail bag. the contents
of which are valued at 100000 was
recently stolen while en- route from
New York to Paris.
Colorado officials propose calling
cony ention of Western stockmen TO
oppose the presidents policy of en-
forcing the collection of taxes for
grazing on public lands.
An engine and tender attached to
Denver e Rio Grande passenger
train recently left the rails on a curve
and plunged down fifty-foot EN-
bankment. None of the passengers
was injured.
An examination of the accounts OF
Frank Jones, teller of the Charlotte,
N. c., National bank shows short
age Of S6S.O00 Jones has disappeared.
Officials of the Brotherhood of
Trainmen generally express the op'n-
ion that peaceful settlement of the
wage question on the Western
railroads will be reached in the near
future.
The expense of sending an army of
pacification to Cuba to date amounts
to $4,000 The Cuban government
will be given all the time necessary TO
pay the bill.
Stockton, Cal. recently experienced
the most disastrous flood in its his
tory. All the public utilities were
demoralized.
Five workmen were recently killed
by the collapse of the lining of
blast furnace which they were repair
ing at Woodward, Ala.
The San Francisco grand jury, which
has been investigating the alleged cor
ruution in the city government, has
returned 10 indictments for bribery,
Go of which are against Abraham
Ruef. the political boss of the city.
The United States now ranks third
among the worlds exporters of manu-
factured goods.
Disastrous prairie fires have becn
prevalent recently in Nebraska ard
South Dakota, Two women were
burned to death near Bonesteel and
Ilnahmen have lost thousands of dol
lars in buildings burned.
Exnerimenters with the wireless
tele"hcne at Berlin have succeeded in
exchanging words at distance Of
two miles. by using so foot poles.
The bill requiring railroads to pay
municipal taxes on terminal property
in addition to the mileage valuation,
h7s rassed both houses OF the Ne5-as-
ka legislature.
Seven American Rho les scholars
competed in the recent OXford-Cam-
bridge field sports and carried off
two firsts and one third prize.
In raid on gambling resort at
Fort Worth Tex, County Attorney
]. d. Mclean AMI an assistant were
killed by william Thompson. pre-
prietor of the place Thompson was
later fatally wounded by posse.
Theodore Roosevelt. Jr.. has been
chosen second assistant muGuser o.
the Harvard university crew by rte
athletic committee OF the university
Executive orders have been sien7d
by the president which abolish the
municipal governments on the canal
zone. The change is expected TO
harmonic the various parts of tie
zone.
Fire recently destroyed the print
ing plant of the Chronicle at Angus
ta. Ga.
An explosion of fire damp in a coal
mine at Kleinrossein, Germany killed
10 miners.
The production of hydraulic cement
in the United States in 1906 amounted
to 5O.G27.321 barrels being an increase