The Springfield herald., 1907-01-18
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Host Important Happenings Ct tse
Past Seven Days.
InterestinE Items Gathered from Al,
parts of the World Condemned
Into Small Space for tho
ueneAt of Our Readers.
PersoAnI.


another appeal to the supreme court
and Gov. Folk has granted 80 days
respite to Frank Hoffman, her alleged
accomplice.
George b. Cortelyou has announced
his retirement from the chairmanship
of the republican national committe.
Harry s. New will become acting
chairman.
d. r. Francis president of the st.
Louis worlds fair company has gone
to Mexico to present to President
Diaz gold medal awarded him in
recognition of his services to the ex-
position company.
David Overmyer, one of the most
prominent democrats in the west,
and candidate of his party for attor'
ney general of Kansas at the last
election, died rather suddenly at his
home in Topeka recently of acute
pneumonia.
F. E. Warren, of Wyoming, has
been reelected as United States SEN
ator from his state.
King Peter of Servia, denies thS.
he has any intention of resigning or
permanently leaving the country.
Edward Harry Hurst. a cartoonist,
dramatic critic and playwright, OF
Louisville, Ky, is dead at Phoenix,
Ariz.
Gen. R. F. Patterson, formerly Of
the Fourth Iowa cavalry and Twen-
ty-fifth Iowa infantry and more re
Gently consul general at Calcutta, In
dia, died recently at st. GATHERINGS,
Ont.
Ellen Terry. the English actress.
has sailed for the United States to
make a farewell tour of America.
Sir Thomas Lipton has offered a
cup for yacht race in Hampton
Roads during the jamestown expo
sition.
Col. Patko Andrieff, chief of the
gendarmes of the Lodz district in
Russian Poland, was recently shot
and killed on the streets of LODI.
Capt. John 7. Lytle, general man
ager and secretary of the Texas Cat
tie Raisers' association, is dead in
San Antonio.
Secretary Taft has submitted to
congress an estimate of the defl-
cheney in the war department, for the
current year, which amounts to $5,-
274,7SG. Cuban intervention was the
principal cause of the deficit.
The congressional committee who
have been inspecting the work on the
of n
Washington much pleased with the
progress made.
A lively scene was enacted in the
house recently when Representa-
tives Mahon, of Pennsylvania, and
Gaines. of Tennessee, passed the
lie The men We're only prevented
from coming to blows by the inter-
ference of other members.
The senate committee has re-
fused to recommend the proposed
increase in salaries of cabinet mem
bers, president of the senate, speak
er of the house and representatives,
Congressman William Alden Smith
of Grand Rapids, Mich. has been
nominated by the republican caucus
to succeed Russell A. Alger as Uni
ted States senator.
The La Toilette bill providing that
railway employees engaged in hapd-
ling trains shall not work more than
16 consecutive hours has been
passed by the senate by a vote of
20 to /
The house recently passed G2S pen
sion bills in 95 minutes.
The senate recently passed the
McCumber service pension bill with
out a division.
MIscrIInnenns.
An agreement has been reached by
which the questions in dispute be-
tween the Southern Pacific railway
and its firemen will be submitted to
arbitration and the men have returned
TO work.
A committee has been appointed by
the Oklahoma constitutional conven-
ton to investigate the extent and
value of the segregated coal lands as
a first step toward their purches by
the new state.
The shah of Persia is dead at Te-
heran, the capital, after a lingering
illness. He will be succeeded by his
son who has been acting as regent for
some time.
Lieut.. Gen. Vladimir Pavloff. Rus
sian military procurator. known as
"Hangman" Pavloff, was recently
shot to death by a revolutionist in
st. Petersburg The assassin was
captured after long chase.
Fire at Almena. Kan, destroyed six
buildings and damaged others.
Secretary Taft has ordered Brig.
Gen. McCaskey, commanding the
department of Texas, to try at once
by court martial Corporal Knowles
of the Twenty-fifth infantry, for the
murderous assault on Capt. Macklin
at Fort Reno.
Unknown persons blew open the
safe containing the records of iefal
cations of N. c. Dougherty, ex-sup
erintendent of Peoria, ILL.,, schools
now in the penitentiary, and burned
them. The loss of the records affects
the liability of bondsmen and pre-
vents future indictments
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