The Springfield herald., 1907-01-11
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Most Important Happenings of the
Past Seven Days.
Interesting Items Gathered from, All
parts of the World Condemned
Into Small Space for tho
Ecncnt of Our Readers.
PersO'nal.

was buried with simple ceremonies at
Bryn Mawr, a suburb of Philadelphia.
Rev. Joshua Allan Lippincott, well
known in the east and middle west
as a divine and educator, is dead in
Los Angeles. Cal.
j. r. Merritt, of Topeka, has been
named to fill the newly created office
of assistant freight agent of tht San
ia Fe.
Wilbur Glenn Voliva, general over
seer of Zion City, was recently de-
nounced by Dowieites at public
meeting there as Judas lscariot'
Devil" and "Robber.''
Thomas NJ. Bowen, former United
States senator from Colorado, is dead
at Pueblo, aged II.
James McCrea, first vice president
of the Pennsylvania lines west of
Pittsburg, has been elected president
of the Pennsylvania Railroad COM
pany to succeed the late A. j. Cas-
satt.
William H. Mackey, jr., has been
re-appointed to be United States mar
shall of Kansas.
| Frederick McMasters, United States
consul at Zanzibar, has rendered his
resignation because OF the small sa!
ary attached to the office.
Prof. Otto Benndorf, the noted arch
aeologist, is dead in Vienna.
F. NJ. Robertson, of Wilson coun-
ty, Kansas, has been elected to fill
the vacancy caused by the death of
State Senator S. s. Benedict.
Mai. Gen. Won Der Launitz, pre-
| feet of police of ST. Petersburg was
| sYot and instantly killed in the insti-
tute of experimental medicine. The
| assassin was cut down and killed by
an officer.
DIR. Joseph A. Aldrich, n former sur
| geon in the United States army, is
dead at his home in Denver, aged
SO years.
Daniel Garman, who was engineer
of the train on which President Lin
coin made his famous midnight jour
ney from Harrisburg to Washington,
recently died at Lebanon. Pa.
Rev. John C. Bro ks, youngest
brother Of the la.e Philips Brooks,
is dead in Paris.
George A. Murphy. of Muskogee, l.
T, is to be the chief speaker at the
Kansas Day banquet at Topeka on
January 30.
L. w. Hastings, an actor of New
York, was killed recently in a wreck
of the overland limited train on the
Union Pacific in Nebraska.
ConrrcssIouni
Prominent Cherokee women have
prepared memorial to congress ask
| ing that body to set aside the decree
| of the supreme court which abrogated
| the rights of intermarried whites.
A bill has been introduced in the
| senate to prohibit the sale of lands in
the government domain on which are
situated beds of coal and other miner
ais until such deposits are exhausted.
N,nceInnenn..
BY the gift of 100000 to the Chi
cago University on New Years day,
| John d. Rockefeller has brought his
S19,416,922.
In the custer suit of the state of
Missouri against the Delmar Jockey
club of St Louis, writ of error to
| the supreme court of the United States
has been granted by Chief Justice
| CAN'T.
The southern portion of Indiana is
suffering from floods Fifteen schools
in Glib on county alone we're com-
water.
BY direction OF the president, Sec
retary Hitchcock has issued an order
notifying registers of local land Of
ficers to destroy all Illegal enclosures
on public lands after April /, next.
Andrew Carnegie has notified Secre-
tary Root of his intention to contri-
butte S750,O00 for the purpose of erect
ing building in Washington for the
use of the bureau of American repuD-
lies.
Judge Garland. of the Uni ed States
district court at Sioux Falls. S. d.,
has rendered decision holding that
the state board of railroad commits
sioners has jurisdiction ever express
companies.
Engineers on all the railroads west
OF Chicago, to the number of $1,000
have made demands on the compan-
les for an increase in wages.
Two hundred delegates representing
boards of trade and commercial or
ganizations met recently in Chicago
and formed the National Reciprocal
Demurrage Association.
George l.. Sheldon has been inaugu-
rated as governor of Nebraska, sue
ceeding John II. Mickey.
The position of commissioner of
the general land office, which is to
become vacant on March by The re
tirement of Commissioner Richards,
has been offered TO Phillip c. Stew
art. of Colorado Springs.
According TO figures furnished by
the New York Word the powder trust
made profit in sales to the govern
ment during 1906 of s2.3iS.36i.
Los Angeles, Cal, is the latest city
reported to he suffering from a fuel
famine. No coal or w-ol IS to be had
in the city at any price.