The Springfield herald., 1907-02-08


ticipate In the exposition at James
town. Va.
The damage to shipping In Buffalo
harbor alone is $1,50O,OOO Five great
lake steamers aground tell that part
of the story. Thirteen others make
ing brave attempts to ride out the
storm may add to 1t.
The epidemic of dlphtheria and
scarlet fever has become SO violent
in Chicago that the health commits
sioner has requested the citizens to
cancel all social engagements for the
present.
The Hartman railroads are h:;Jing
coal in Australia at ten dollars a ton
and shipping it to the United States
for use in their locomotives.
The Mississippi river at Memphis,
Tenn, reached a stage of 40.2. being
the highest ever recorded. the former
high mark being 40.1 in 1908.
Eighty men were killed by terrific
explosion in coal mine near Fayettes-
Vile, w. Va, recently. They were
at work 500 feet below the surface
when the disaster occurred.
The mayor of Cananea, Mex, and 40
American have been jailed at Hermo-
sillo for gambling at Cananea after the
governor had ordered it closed.
Dispatches to the state department
declare that 100000 persons are in
a starving condition in the famine
stricken district of China. Fears are
entertained of the outbreak of an cpl
demic.
Three hundred guests attended the
annual banquet OF the Kansas Day
club at the Topeka Auditorium. s.
H. Brandon, of Butler county. was
elected president for the ensuing
year.
The president of the San Francisco
board of education and the superin-
tendent of schools have been ordered
to Washington to confer with the
president regarding the japanese
question.
The suit of the receiver of the Bay
State Gas company of Delaware
against H. H. Rogers in connection
with the ownership of the Boston Gas
company has been settled by agree
ment of Mr.. Rogers to pay the re-
ceivers $1,5O0,O00.
The Mexican government has been
formally requested by the United
States to aid in preventing undesirable
immigrants from crossing the border
from Mexico into the United States.
Motion to quash the indictments
against John D. Rockefeller and as
sociates have been filed at Findlay.
Ohio.
Secretary Shaw was the guest Of
honor at the annual banquet of the
Missouri society in New York. He
spoke on Pending Financial Lesisia-
ton"
After nine days of work a jury Of
twelve men has been secured to try
Harry X. Thaw for the murder OF
Stanford White in New York.
President Roosevelt has written "a
letter to the navy department COM
mending Rear Admiral Davis for his
action at Kingston, Jamaica, at the
time of the great earthquake disaster.
Eight buildings in the center of the
business district of Harrisburg, Pa.
were recently destroyed by fire caus-
ing loss of nearly $1,0O0,OO0.
The flood in the lower Mississippi
is becoming serious. A levee at Menu
phis has broken causing portion OF
~ .tt na
reported from various points in Mis-
sissipi, Arkansas and Missouri.
The Oklahoma constitutional con-
vention, by vote of 85 to Is adopted
an amendment providing for separate
submission of the prohibition question
at the time the constitution is voted
on.
For more than 40 days the thermom-
eter has not registered as high as zero
in the northwest and the destruction
of range cattle Is considered complete.
Willie n freight train on the NJ, X
& T. railroad was crossing bridge
near Deerfield, Mo-. the structure coll
lapsed precipitaing IL cars into the
stream. A boy named Minton, of
Pilot Grove, Mo-, was killed.
An anti-pass bill has passed both
houses of the South Dakota legisla-
ture, which permits the exchange Of
newspaper advertising for transporta-
ton.
'Carnation Day." the anniversary Of
the birth of William Mckinley. was
generally observed in Washington
and the larger cities throughout the
country.
Lieut.. Ralph w. Drury and Private
John Dowd, of the Ninth United States
infantry, were acquitted of charge
of murder, at Pittsburs, Pa, for the
killing of w. II. Crowley.
The president has approved the first
500 bids for land in the big pasture"
the average price being over s12 per
acre.
In a statement made at the White
House it is emphatically denied that
William J. oliver is to be given the
contract for construction of the 18TH
mian canal.
The recent meeting of the Kansas
State Bar association at Topeka was