The Springfield herald., 1907-07-05
CONDENSED TELEGRAhs
The arbitration treaty between the
United States and Switzerland has been

signed.
]. Pierpont Morgan has been elected
president of the New York Metropoli-
tan Museum Of Art.
Secretary of War Taft will be in
command Of the naval forces OF the
Isthmus Of Panama while he is there.
Commander Booth Tucker, who for
eight and half years has been at the
head OF the Salvation Army in this
country. recently sailed for England.
Gen. Louis Palma Di Cesnola, di-
rector and trustee OF the Metropolitan
Museum of Art. New York City, died
November 2lst at the age of ~ years.
Orders are being prepared opening
to commercial business the naval coast
wireless telegraph stations ut Yerba
Buena, California, and Mare Island
navy yard.
Joseph Brown. son of the late Gov
ernor Joseph M. Brown Of Georgia,
wants all the southern electors to cast
their votes for Roosevelt, making his
election unanimous.
Col. William c. P. Breckenridge died
at Lexington, Kentucky, November
18th from the effects of stroke OF
paralysis three days previous.
The American Sheet and TIN Plate
Company has opened Its eight-mill
plant in Pittsburg and is said to be ar
ranging to start eighty-four idle tin
plate mills early in December
In the foot ball game at New Haven
November 18th Harvard was beaten by
Yale by a score of u to 0. being the
same score made by Yale in her VIC
tory over Princeton a week before.
Twenty-one department stores in
New York City have entered into an
alliance to prosecute shoplifters. Losses
of half q million dollars from this
source have been suffered during the
past year.
A dispatch from Constantinople says
Turkey is ordering hundred new bat
teries of artillery from German. French
and English factories at the cost OF
$l0.000.00O. The Krupp company gets
the largest contracts.
Queen Liliuokalani and former Dele
ggate Kalanianole came over from
Honolulu recently to attend to the
queens project of securing an appro-
! pf1ation from Congress to pay her fol
the former crown lands.
Secretary Taft left Washington No
vember 18th for New Orleans on his
way to Panama, where be goes as the
special representative Of President
Roosevelt to present message Of am.
ity and good will to President Anna
| dor.
Pat Grove. for whose capture Cud-
ahy. the millionaire packer. is reported
to have offered a reward Of 315.00O Al
the kidnaper of his little son, IL
! thought to be in the City Of Mexico
and the police are endeavoring to To-
cate him.
A forest fire In the Illinois bottoms
seven miles north Of Peoria. Illinois
has devastated seven square miles oi
territory. The countryside was fillsd
with small game driven from their laira
by the flames. Several farm buildingl
were destroyed.
Miss Anna s. Peck, the American
mountain climber. arrived at New Yorl
recently from Colon. Miss Peck, whe
left New York last June. has been In
l Peru. where she succeeded in ascend
Ing Huascan mountain to . height OF
$1,000 feet. Immense crevasses pre-
vented her reaching the summit.
| In sensational finish on the Associa-
tion track at Oklahoma City, Novem-
ber 18th, Dan Patch lowered the
worlds record for pacing mile on q
half-mile track. the official time being
2:O3 fiat. The previous record. held BY
Dan Patch himself, was made at Bir'
mingham. Alabama, last year. being
2:O3A.
J. P. Storm, former county treasurer
of Yavapai count, Arizona, who was
found bound and gagged In the vault
of his Office on November 9th. and who
reported that lie had been robbed oi
$4,000 by two men and then placed In
the vault, where he claims he was fol
fourteen hours, has been arrested or
the charge of embezzlement.
An automobile train with four cars
was successfully tested at Berlin a few
days ago by the German War Depart
ment. By means OF special couplings
the cars were drawn after the auto
mobile round sharp curves. keeping
the same track. The velocity was tif-
teen miles an hour. The train wen,
over meadows at the rate of eight miles
an hour.
President Roosevelt has announced
the appointment of Francis E. LeupI
to be Indian commissioner, vice VIII
liam A. Jones, resigned. Commissioner
Jones' resignation and Mr.. Leupp's ap-
pointment will take effect January 1st
| Mr.. Leupp is washington correspond
ent of the New York Evening Post and
has been identified with Indian affaira
for many years.
Spelterni, prominent balloonist. to-
gether with two members OF the Aero
static Club Of Berlin, recently made an
ascension from Zurich. Switzerland
passing over the Bernese Alps and
making a safe landing in the village
of Corbatiere, In the canton OF New
chatel. They attained an elevation oi
two miles, experiencing bright sun
shine but intense cold.
The Holland government has notified
the American charge d'ahaires that
| Queen Wilhelmina will be glad to see
the second peace conference meet al
The Hague, and that the United States
may count on the cooperation OF The
Netherlands so soon as Emperor Mich
olas. originator of the work begun In
1899, and other powers have given
their adhesion to the proposal.
Former Judge Alton B. Parker and
Mrs. Parker will spend the winter in
New York City at the Hotel Neither
| lands He has engaged the suite for