The Springfield herald., 1907-03-22
NEWS OF THE WEEA
Most Important Happenings cf the
Past Seven Days.
InterestInE Items Gathered from, Al.
parts of the World Condemned
Into Small Space for the
Benent of Our Readers.
Personal.

The author has sailed for Bermuda.
President Mellen of the New York
New Haven & Hartford railroad has
.elegraphed President Roosevelt ask
ing an interview.
Judge Thomas Maloney. who was
private secretary to President Andrew
Johnson died recently at Ogden, Utah.
BY order OF the president about
2S,000.000 acres of coal land will be
Immediately opened to entry as rap
idly as the geological survey can
make proper examinations.
Joseph E. McJimsey, father OF E.
E. E. McJimsey. editor of the Spring
field, Mo-, Republican. died recently
at s home in Chillicothe, Mo.
Rev. Henry Coe Culbertson, of lola
Kan. has accepted the presidency Of
the College of Emporia.
Charles Gordon Knox. secretary Of
the st. Louis Commercial club, died
of typhoid fever while returning from
visit to Panama recently.
Stuyvesant Fish, former president
of the Illinois Central railroad. has
been elected director in the Mis-
souri, Pacific
Lieut.. Frank Lahm, Sixth cavalry,
U. S. A., has been detailed as in
structor Of ballooming at Fort
Leavenworth. He won the James
Gordon Bennett cup in the inter
September.
Judge Pollock, In the federal dis
trict court has denied the application
Iof ex-Capt. Kirkman for writ O.
lhabcas corpus. The former army Of
lficer must serve seven more months
in the prison at Fort Leavenworth.
A fire in Borsano, Italy destroyed
1.-The greater part of the village and
rendered 1000 persons homeless.
Joe. Ullman, the well known book
maker and sporting man, has broken
down mentally and has been placed
in a private sanitarium in California.
The funeral of John Alexander
Dowie was held in quiet and unos-
tentatious manner at Zion City re-
Gently.
Maurice Grau, the well-known I'M
pressario, is dead in Paris.
Mrs. S. N. Castle. an early mission
ary in the Hawaiian islands died re-
Gently at Honolulu. She was 80 years
of age.
]. X. Burnham, of the Burnham,
of Kansas City, and president of the
National Wholesale Dry Goods asso
citation, died recently of pneumonia at
his home in Kansas City.
William j. oliver, of Knoxville,
Tenn, whose bid for the construction
OF the Panama canal was recently re-
jected, has been elected vice presi-
dent OF the newly organized United
States Trust company of Washing
ton.
j. L. Benton, of Monticello, Ga. is
TO investigate the market for cotton
seed products.
Miscellaneous.
The Nicaraguan government has
Issued a decree recognizing the pro-
Ivisional government organized by the
Irevolutionists of Honduras and de-
lclaring its members to be allies of
Nicaragua.
1t is estimated that the loss by
the immediate vicinity will amount
TO $1O,O00,000. Ten square miles o!
the city was submerged
| Secretary Metcalf has left Wash
ington for a cruise of inspection in
Cuban and Porto Rican waters.
The most sensational decline in
prices for several years occurred in
the Wall street stock market recent
Ily. Conditions were decidedly
tpanicky for several hours.
Serious roiting occurred in Louis
willie, KY, when the street railway
company attempted to run cars with
|strike-breakers. A mob of more than
d 900 persons fought off the police and
tore five of the cars to pieces. Many
persons were injured.
The greatest flood ever experienced
by Pittsburg. Pa, recently swept
down upon the city catching the peo-
=. u... I'D Several lives were lost
and much properly was damaged.
: Gertrude Hanish, a stenosraph1.
1eaped from window in the 18th
story OF Cincinnati office building
and was dashed to death on the
street below. Hundreds of people
witnessed the deed
The prosecution in the Thaw case
gained a point recently when Justice
Fitzgerald decided to admit the evil
dence of j. C. Smith, brother-in-law
of Stanford White, regarding conver-
sations with the defendant at the
Madison Square garden on the night
of the tragedy.
A member of John D. Rockefel
Ter, Jr.'s bible class is given as au
thority for the statement that in the
elder Rockefellers will just completed
provision is made for the donation of
$3.50 100000 to charitable and educa-
tional purposes.
Estimates of the damage caused at
Pittsburg, Pa, by the recent flood
which was the greatest ever known
'-""c are from s1o.OoO.cce to 5000
600.
Another revolution has started in
Venezuela with Gen. Juan Pablo Pen
alosa at its leader.
The president has issued an execu-