The Springfield herald., 1907-05-10
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Most Important Happenings of the
Past Seven Days.
Interesting Items Gathered from All
parts of the World Condemned
Into Small Spn'c for the
Dcneft of Our Readers.
Personal,


Personal.
Secretary Taft in q speech at BAN
Quet in Cincinnati expressed the belief
that the Panama canal would be COM
|. pleted in eight years.
A. L. Stilwell and party of 90
capitalists who took a trip over the
lines of the Orient railroad in Mexico,
have returned.
John Mitchell. president of the
United Mine Workers, has submitted
to an operation which is declared to
have been successful and no danger
Is anticipated
Dennis Kearney, the Sand Lot
Orator" who led the agitation against
the Chinese in San Francisco in the
early seventies, is dead at his home
in Alameda. Cal.
Admiral Dewey was the guest of
honor at banquet held in Washington
to celebrate the ninth anniversary OF
the hattie of Manila bay.
Gen. Kurolli, of the Japanese army,
who won fame in the war with Russia,
is now in this country.
Charles II. Hinton, an assistant cN-
aminer of the patent office, dropped
dead in the lobby of the y. NJ. c. A.
building in Washington, where he had
just responded to a toast at banquet.
John Cudahy, the well-known Chi
cago packer. is critically i'll.
Capt. Edgar Macklin, of the Twenty
fifth infantry, has been acquitted by
the court martial which tried him in
connection with the shooting up Of
| Brownsville Texas.
Arthur Melvin, chief editorial writ
er on the New York American. died
recently in Hamilton, Bermuda, of
heart failure.
President Castro of Venezuela, is
again reported seriously i'll.
William f. Corey has been re-
elected president of the United States
| Steel corporation.
Miscellaneous.
Counsel for Meyer. Haywood and
Pettibone have issued formal state.
ment denying that their clients were in
| Idaho at the time of the murder OF Gov.
Steunenberg.
William A. Brewer, Jr., former
president of the Washington Life In
surance company, was fined $500 at
New York recently for making false
returns to the state superintendent
of insurance.
A warm welcome was extended Gen.
Kuroki and suite upon their arrival
in Seattle. In addition to the thous-
ands of Americans, hundreds of Jap
anese were on hand to greet their
general.
Serious anti-European riots have
occurred at Rawalpindi, British In
dia. A Hindu mob burned several
buildings. pillaged mission church,
and looted the post office.
William Cross, his wife and two
sons were asphyxiated in New York
by inhaling Illuminating gas.
Newton Youngblood, a 1G-year-old
Oklahoma boy has been sentenced to
prison for life for killing a farmer.
A San Francisco newspaper carrier
| has been arrested for selling counter
felt money. In his room was found
several hundred dollars of the gree.
sood.r
Thirty Thousand acres of irrigated
land near Billings, Mont, are to be
opened for settlement by the govern
ment about July L.
Ten men of the United States gun
boat Tacoma, while on shore leave at
| Santiago. Cuba, were attacked by the
city police and badly injured. An in
vestigation by the authorities was i'm.
mediately begun.
On the last day of April snow Gov
| cred the entire state of Iowa to a
depth of from three to eight inches.
A bomb was thrown at ,ne carriage
| of President Cabrera in the streets of
Guatemala City, but the official escap-
ed unharmed although the horses were
killed.
After being entombed for more than
four days seven miners were rescued
alive from a flooded mine at Johns
town, Pa. They were in an eX-
hausted condition but will recover.
The transport Buford sailed from
San Francisco for Honolulu recently
/ Win party Vi ID COi5ita'iiieit Nio
visit Hawaii at the invitation of
Delegate Kalanainaole, to acquaint
themselves with conditions there.
Four men have been arrested in
St. Louis on suspicion of having
started the fire by which two men
were killed and eight others injured.
-Four hundred men have been made
! idle by the destruction of the plant of
the National Stove company at
Lorain, o.
France is moving for commission
like that appointed by the United
States to adjust the tariff with Ger
many.
The first Kansas state convention of
the Society Of Equity, the farmers
union, held two days session in
| Wichita recently.
The second biennial session of the
Missouri Federation of Women's clubs
was recently held in Joplin.
The receivers appointed by the
Kansas supreme court to take charge
| of the property of brewers in the state
| Sn11pnG ot AtrhiCpn