The Springfield herald., 1907-04-12
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Most Important Happenings cf the
Past Seven Days.
Interesting Items Gathered from Als
parts of the World Condemned
Into Small Space for the
Denedt of Our Readers.
Personal,

steamship company TO succeed l.
Shonts.
Capt Edgar A. Macklin of Company
C. 25th infantry In testifying before
the senate committee investigating the
Brownsville, Tex. shooting stated
that he did not believe the men were
guilty.
f. A. Holbrook, recently indicted by
the federal grand jury as the chiei
promoter of an unlawful combination
in school and church furniture has
entered plea of guilty.
Secretary Taft held long confer
ence while at Panama with President
Amidor and Secretary of State Arlas'
regarding various complaints OF the
Panama republic.
Judge Jacob w. wilkins, for is
years a member OF the supreme court
of Illinois, is dead at his home In
Danville, aged 10 years.
Commander Robert Il. Peary has Sc
cured the necessary funds for another
expedition to the far North. His Ves-
sci, the Roosevelt is nearly ready. and
he expects to set out the last of June.
NJ. Takahashi. the japanese finan-
cial agent, arrived in New York re-
Gently on his way to Japan from
Paris and London where he arranged
the big five percent loan for his
country.
William Green has been elected
mayor of Topeka, Kan, by plurality
of 1 800, votes.
James ]. Hill has resigned as presi-
dent of the Great Northern railroad
and is succeeded by his son. T. w.
Hill. Mr.. Hill will be chairman OF
the board of directors.
Capt. William Swift, who was in
command of the battleship Connecti-
cut when it grounded in January has
been suspended for nine months and
loses three numbers.
d. E. Cornell was elected mayor OF
Kansas City, Kan, over w. w. Rose,
the democratic nominee by majority
of 1.173 votes.
Bishop James N. Fitzgerald, of the
NJ. E. church, who with his family.
has been on a tour of the world, died
recently OF pleurisy at Hongkons.
ii.
Judge II. F. Thompson, of Mime
apolis, Kan, prominent attorney,
is dead at his home of paralysis.
The congress of the Christian
church recently held in Cincinnati
has elected Rev. w. F. Richardson,
of Kansas City, Mo-, president. and
Rev. Wallace C. Payne. of Lawrence,
Kan; secretary.
Martin Flores, who came from San
Antonio, Tex. has been arrested in
New York charged with making
threats against the president. He
was sent to Bellevue hospital.
Miscellaneous.
The railroad committee of the Min
nesota legislature has rejected COM
promise proposition presented by ]. j.
Hill and insist upon a two-cent fare
law and the freight reductions ordered
by the state railroad commission.
The strike of the St. Louis Brewery
workers has been settled. The mat
ters in dispute were compromised.
For the first time in the history of
Illinois a woman was elected justice
of the peace in Evanston, the fashion,
able Chicago suburb at the recent
election.
In recent New York tenement fire
Mrs. Sotupo and her four children met
death by suffocation.
The Nebraska legislature has adopt
ed resolution endorsing the posi-
tion of President Roosevelt in his
controversy with E. II Hartman.
The United States is now importing
more than s1,000o00 worth of cocoa
per month, while importations of cof-
fee and tea are declining.
Representatives from all over the
world are attending the fSth general
conference of the Mormon church al
Salt Lake, Utah.
The federal grand jury at Chicago
has returned another indictment
against John r. Walsh for president
of the Chicago National bank, fo-
misappropriation of the funds of Tic
, bank.
The department of the interior is
to bring suit at once against the
Southern Pacific railroad to cancel
all patents to land in the White
Horse Mining district of Nevada, is
sued to the company, on the ground
that the land was agricultural.
By premature explosion N the
Black Diamond mine at Joplin. Mo.
two miners were instantly killed.
Announcement has been made at
Carnegie Institute at Pittsburg, Pa
Of another S!ft TO the endowmen nj
fund by the founder amounting tc
s6,0OO,00o.
Only three minutes We're consumed
at Cincinnati recently, in indicting
Bartholomew Cavagna, former teller
of the First National bank accept
ing a plea of guilty of embezzlement
and sentencing him to six years in
the penitentiary.
| Reports frcm missionaries at Bitli:
Turkish Armenia, states that an earth
quake has occurred there causing los!
of life and damage to property.
| On account of the car sbortag,
Louisina lumbermen are preparing Il
ship their product up the Mississippi
river by barges
Because Emperor William disap.