The Springfield herald., 1907-04-05
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Most Important Happenings Of the
Past Seven Days.
Interesting Items Gathered from AID
parts Of the World Condemned
late Small Spare for the
Deaent of Our RsaderA.
Personal.

peuulCil!S.
After search of eight years VIII
liam L. Church a contractor OF Kan
sas City. Mo-, was found in the hospit-
al for the insane at Dunning, ILL.,,
where he had been sent from Chicago
more than one year ago.
BY order of the president about
$4,000. 900 acres of coal land will be
Immediately opened to entry as rap
idly as the geological survey can
make proper examinations.
President Roosevelt has promised
to make an address at the dedication
of statue to the memory OF the
rough riders. to be erected in Airing
ton National cemetery on April IL.
James Henry Smith. New York
multi-millionaire, died recently at
Kioto, Japan, while on a wedding tour
around the world.
DR.. Jollos, editor of the Russki
viedonisti at Moscow has been assass-
mated. He was member OF the
first Russian parliament.
Jesse F. Welborn. has been chosen
to succeed the late Frank ]. Hearne
as president of the Colorado Fuel &
Iron company.
The students of Princeton university
have presented former president
Grover Cleveland with a loving cup.
Judge Samuel Ryan, the Oldest edi-
tor in Wisconsin. and one OF the old
est members of the Odd Fellows is
dead at Appleton.
John Brislin. blind inventor OF
Pittsburg. Pa. aged 73 years, who
spent all his money in defending his
patents, died recently of broken
heart
Hamlin F. Lee, aged ST, veteran
of the Mexican and civil wars. and a
nephew of Gen, Robert e. Lee. is dead
at his home In Colorado Springs.
Charles S. Stahl, captain and form
er manager of the Boston American
league baseball team, committed sui
eide recently at West Baden. Ind.
where the club had gone for spring
practice.
Thomas Connor. state senator from
Joplin, Mo-, is dead. He was elected
10 the last general assembly but was
never able to attend any of the ses-
sions.
Lieut., Gen. Arthur Macarthur has
been transferred from the department
OF the Pacific to the department OF
the lakes. with headquarters at Mil
waukee.
Former Representative McCleary
of Minnesota has been sworn in as
second assistant postmaster genera
in succession to W. S. Shallenbarger
resigned.
miscellaneous.
A column of French troops has en-
tered and occupied the city of Oudja
Morocco, without resistance on the
part of the inhabitants.
The president has signed the exc
,cutive order calling for a general
election of delegates to the first
Philippine assembly.
BY tampering with switch al
Council, Ok, some miscreant caused
the wreck of n Rock Island passen'
ger train. Two persons were klllec
and two seriously injured.
The evidence for the prosecution II
the rebate case against the Standard
Oil company on trial in Chicago is al
in and the government has rested.
The Nebraska legislature has passed
state wide primary bill which does
away with state, county and city
nominating conventions.
BY an explosion or dynamite at
Johannesburg, Transvaal. four white
men and so natives were instantly
killed and three whites and 1G natives
were injured.
The vote for mayor of Creston, Ia.
being a tie, the contest was settled
by lot. Willis M. Brooks, the repuhli-
can candidate getting the office.
The New York Central railroad, Ira
A. Mccormick, genera: superintendent
and A. H. Smith. a vice president
have been indicted for manslaughter
in connection with a recent wreck on
the road.
The presentation of the silver ser
vice purchased by the state of Kan
sas to the battleship of the same name
will take place at League Island, near
PHILADELPHIA, some time during the
Ilrst half of June.
To relieve the stringency OF the
New York money market Secretary
Cortelyou anticipated by several days
the April interest on bonds.
The American Minister at TanGier.
Morocco reports the stoninS to death
of a French doctor by the natives at
Morocco City.
Track laying of the Belen cutoff
between Frisco and Belen. N. NJ, has
been completed. When the road is fin
ished heavily loaded trains will leave
the main line of the Santa Fe at New
ton, Kan, and connect with it again
at Belen.
Only two deaths occurred in
February among the 5.554 white la
borers on the Panama canal zone. The
annual death rate has fallen to AZ
per 1000.
Two hundred Roumanian peasants
were recently killed in one day in
conflict wi'h troops.
The RuSslan evacuation OF Manchur-
in IS complete, the last battalion of
Russian troops having left Hardin.
The Morton salt plant at Hutchinson
Kan, the largest in the world, has
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