The Springfield herald., 1907-05-10

IeteIul court llnulnS Armour Iach-
| ing company, Swift & Co, Morris &
Co., and the Cudahy Packing company
guilty of accepting rebates.
James Bryce, British ambassador,
will deliver an address at jamestown.
May l3, commemorating the first por-
manent settlement of English speak
ing people on the American con-
tinent.
The first international boat race
between the crews of the warshirs
gathered off jamestown exposition
grounds resulted in victory for the
/ crew of the American battleship
Virginia
A special jury has been called at
Joplin, Mo, to investigate the charges
of police graft.
A servere wind and electrical storm
did considerable damage at Spring
field, Mo, and vicinity recently.
In the federal court at Guthrie Ok,
the demurrers of the lumbermen to the
indictments against them were over
ruled. The cases will be called for trial
at the next term of court
owing to contrary winds the at.
tempt of Capt. Chandler and ]. C. Nc
Coy to reach Washington, D. c., from
st. Louis failed. After being in the air
10 hours the balloon landed at Col
conda, H., 130 miles from the starting
point.
Abraham Ruef recently moved for
n change of venue of his case from
San Francisco alleging that for verl-
Gus reasons he could not get fair
| trial in that county.
A company has been organized 10
build 100000 cement plant at
Tulsa, I. T.
The Web Pressman's union of St
Louis has ordered strike in all the
English newspapers of the city eX-
cept one. The pressmen and helpers
| demand an increase of from 30 TO 100
| per cent in wages.
In speech at Worcester, Mass,
| Leslie NJ. Shaw, former secretary of
the treasury declared war for the con-
troll of the Pacific ocean was newt
able.
Count Otto Won Waldstein. an Aus
trian nobleman, was recently killed in
California by a sheriff's posse who
mistook him for a desperado for
whom they We're searching.
| The wages of the entire working
| force in the packing houses at Omaha
have been voluntarily increased from
/ five to Is per cent.
A disastrous gunpowder explosion
recently occurred in Canton, China.
Ia, l. l,,i1 Il liza,
| and hundreds of the natives were
either killed or injured The foreign
settlement escaped injury.
Charles J. Steedman, of New York
and Philadelphia, son of the late Rear
Admiral Steedman recently commit
ted suicide in a Paris hotel.
Three men We're killed and six in
iured in an accident in an ore mine
at Riddlesburg, Pa, recently.
The new treaty between the United
States and Santo Domingo intended to
replace the one which has been pend
ing in the senate for the last two
years, has been ratified by the Do
minican congress.
Former State Senator Franklin p.
Mays has been fined in the federal
court at Portland, Ore, the sum of $lO,
600 for completely in the land frauds
in that state.
The Inland Waterways commission,
at its final meeting in Washington,
decided to proceed to Kansas City and
make a thorough inspection trip down
the Missouri river to st. Louis.
Cattle are reported to be dying in
Elk county, Kan, of Texas fever
About 20 Chicago women were in
/ jured in a panic caused by a fire in
the building occupied by the Lotus
| Lunch club. Most of the injured suf-
fered broken bones by jumping from
windows.
| An association has been chartered
at st. Louis whose object is the
preservation of the log cabin built by
Gen. Grant in that vicinity. An en-
dowment fund of $4,000 is to be
created.
The weather bureau in Washington,
declared the past month the coolest
April in 2G years.
Rev Jere Knode Cooke, rector of
| St George Episcopal church at Hemp
stead, l.. !. fled recently with his
ward, an orphan girl named Whaley,
who is only II years of age. The
whereabouts of the couple is unknown.
! A statue of Gen. George b. Mcclellan
was unveiled recently at Washington
with appropriate ceremonies. rres;-
dent Roosevelt was the principal
speaker of the day The statue was
erected by the Society of the .srnny OF
| the Potomac.
By an explosion in a West Virginia
coal mine II miners We're killed and
five others badly injured
oxford university has conferred the
degree of doctor Of science upon
Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of
the telephone and regent of the Smith
sonian institution at Washington.
The 34th annual meeting of the
State Association of Congregational
churches of Missouri was recently held
at Joplin.
While trying to hang an effigy on a
telegraph pole, w. F. Connell, student