The Springfield herald., 1907-11-22
Miscellaneous,


for coal miners which were recently
lost near Trinidad. Col. were found
by two boys and returned to the COM
pany issuing them.
Charles T. Barney late president of
the Knickerbocker Trust company,
which failed in New York recently.
and prominent in financial circles
there. killed himself by shooting in
his home in that city.
In an editorial in his paper, the
Commoner, William j. Bryan has an
nounced that he will accept the demo-
cratic nomination for president, but
will make no fight to secure the
honor.
The official data secured by the
ternational boundary surveyors dur
ing the past summer, telimiting the
Alaskan line, was recently lost by the
upsetting of canoe in the Bradfield
river.
In answer to numerous protests
against isuing coins without the mot
to "In God We Trust" on them, Pres
ident Roosevelt has issued state
{
omission tnat there is no warrant in
law for the use of the words, and that
1t brings ridicule upon a fine senti-
ment.
After being imprisoned in a mine
at Pottsville, Pa, for 81 hours, Mi
chael McCabe, n miner, was rescued
by the untiring work of his COM
rades.
The attorney general of Nebraska
has brought suit against the Union
Pacific railroad charging discrimina-
tion against cattle shipper of the
state. The penalty may be from 800
to $1,000.
A new weekly paper recently
launched at Washington is called
"Brickbats and Bouquets Charles
Edwards, formerly of Missouri, is the
editor.
The Standard Oil company has de-
clared another dividend of $40 on
each share.
The negotiations which ]. P. Nor
gan G Co., of New York, have been
conducting with the Bank of France
for from $2O,0OO,OO to s4O.O00,00O in
gold have been broken off.
Two men were killed and four in.
jured in an explosion in nitro
glycerine factory at Bradner, Wood
county, Ohio, recently. The factory
was demolished and number OF
houses shattered.
The complaint of the North Pacific
Lumber association charging various
railroads with determinations and un
lawful concert of action has been
filed with the interstate commerce
commission.
Gen. Mackenzie, chief engineer OF
the army, has prepared estimates OF
the appropriations for the war de
partment. The estimates for fortifi
cations aggregate s23.461.911, and
rivers and harbors. s27,000.000.
The Nebraska state railway com
mission has issued an order directing
the railroads and express companies
to give improved service to the dairy
men of the state.
John William Reid, of st. Louis
has been arrested in Paris on the
charge of swindling.
Much suffering is reported in the
western part of Nebraska owing to a
scarcity of coal.
Gov Sheldon, of Nebraska, has is
sued a proclamation establishing a
cattle quarantine to check the spread
of scabies.
A Are originating in n barn
through a combination of boys and
cigarettes at Parsons, Kan. recently
destroyed 100000 orth of property
The Salvation army is planning tc
purchase several transatlantic steam
ers to carry immigrants from Eng
land to Canada.
The Missouri river deep waterway
convention is to be ueid in Sioux City
Iowa, January % and %.
The legislature of California has
been called in special session to con
slider matters relating to the finan
cial situation.
A dwelling in Pittsburg, Pa. was
torn to pieces by an explosion OF
natural gas and 25 persons were in
jured, two of them fatally.
The sentence of seven Missourians
convicted at st. Louis of peonage has
been affirmed by the United States
court of appeals.