The Springfield herald., 1907-03-15
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Most Important Happenings Of the
Past Seven Days.
Interesting Items Gathered from Al,
parts of the World Condensed
Into Small Space for the
ReneAt sf Oar Readers.
Personal,


syncope. He had held many promln-
ent positions in the government
The Dowager Empress of Russia is
In London visiting her sister Queen
Alexandra.
Former Senator j. r. Burton, OF
Kansas, will be released from the
Ironton, Mo-. jail on March o. He
will return directly to his home IN
Abilene. Kan.
Gen 30 tn. OF the Salvation Army,
has arrived in this country from
London on his way to Japan and the
Far East.
James r. Garfield has taken the
oath of office as secretary OF the IN
terror.
C-l. J. B. Thomss, gvernor OF the
Soldiers home at Dayton. o., since
1889, recently died ip that institution.
Secretary Taft and party OF Of
rici Is VIII stoa visit Cuba, Porto
Rica and the Panama Canal. The test
pits on the site of the projected LOOKS
at Gatun Will be inspected.
G. w. II. Lucas, mayor of Cherokee.
Kan, was fatally injured recently by
falling from the back door OF tha
opera house. He was II years OF age.
Dr.. Karl Heinrich Won Boetticher,
who served as German minister of
the interior under Bismarck. is dead.
w. II. Burrow. cashier of a bank
at Smith Center, Kansas. has been
appointed national bank examiner.
Henry Davis Todd, lieutenant COM
mander U. S. NJ, retired the last
. member of the naval academy class OF
1857, died recently at Annapolis. Md.
Congressional.
The chairman of the appropriation
committee of the house announced be-
fore the adjournment of congress that
in place of there being deficit at
the close of the fiscal year 1908 as at
time seemed probable. there wou d
be a surplus of $2O,O00.00O.
The proposition to abandon all OF
the IS pension agencies and consol-
Idate all the business at Washington
was defeated.
The filibustering tactics of the
democrats in the senate was successful
In defeating the ship subsidy bill which
had passed the house by close mar
gin.
During the Fifty-ninth congress 34,-
S79 bills and joint resolutions were
introduced in both branches, of which
6,94O became laws.
Miscellaneous.
Mrs. ]. E. Stoval, of Lawton, Ok.
recently gave birth to baby girl
in a street car at Oklahoma City.
The defense in the Thaw trial took
the prosecution by surprise wnen they
notified District Attorney Jerome that
it would rest their case with the testi-
mony of Mrs. William Thaw. The
state will now put in rebuttal evil
dence, and then the argument will be-
gin.
Both houses of congress have
passed resolution creating joint
committee OF five senators and five
representatives of the SiXtieth con-
gress to revise and codify the laws
of the United States.
After two years of litigation tho
guessing contest regarding attend
ance at the St. Louis worlds fair has
been decided by the courts. NJ. Lo-
gan Guthrie, Of Fulton, Mo-, was
awarded the prize of $4,000.
A big strike of placer gold has been
made in Lost Creek, near Bellinghamr
Wash.
The street car mems union OF
Omaha, Neb., has voted against a
strike to enforce demands for d
CLOSED shop"
The women suffragists of England
have been temporarily defeated in their
efforts to get bill through parliament
giving them the right to vote.
Miss Louise Ross. of Louisiana,
Mo-, was beaten and stabbed by her
sweetheart, Andrew Watts, until near
ly dead. Watts was arrested and
placed in Jail. Thereats of lynchine
were openly made.
Frank r. Campbell, formerly lieu
tenant governor of Iowa, died re-
Gently at Lima, o.
Nicholas Murray Butler, president
of Columbia university, was married
at New York recently to Miss Kate
La Montague
The J. II. Crane Furniture company
one of the pioneer firms of st. Louis,
has made an assignment for the bene-
fit of creditors.
Perry Evans, a teacher of country
school in Oklahoma, was recently as
saulted and killed by Il number of his
male pupils.
The Idaho legislature has aprorri-
ated $4,000 for carrying on the prose-
Gu i-n in the Steu elberg murder
case.
The governors of the various
states have been notified that the
brigade and division encampments
for instruction of the militia will
be omitted this year on account of
the absence of troops in Cuba and
at the jamestown exposition.
The fast mail train from Chicago
to New York was recently derailed AZ
Tivoi. N. Y Ten rso, s we
jured.
BY the explosion of 1000 pounds Ct
dynamite in the storeholse of col
liery near Mount Carmel, Pa, 40 per-
sors were seriously injured.