The Springfield herald., 1907-01-04
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Most Important Happenings of the
Past Seven Days.
Interesting Items Gathered from All
parts of the World Condensed
Into Small Space for the
Bencnt of Our Readers.
PersoAal.

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News. dropped dead at his home re-
Gently. ...
President Castro OF Venezuela is
growing worse and his condition i!
critical.
Henry Watterson and Mrs. Waiter
son of Louisville, KY, are in Barcel'
onia, Spain. where they are expected
to remain one month.
L. Klopsch, editor of the Christian
Herald, was the first to respond tc
President Roosevelt's call for help fol
Chinese famine sufferers.
Gov. Hoch of Kansas has issued
pardon to Orrin Beauchamp who was
serving sentence for criminal care
lessness In handling revolver
Gen. Alfaro has been formally elect
ed president of Ecuador for the next
four years.
immigration Commissioner Watch
orn is authority for the statement that
the number of aliens who land in this
country this year will reach 1,05O.OOO
Samuel A. Morgan, an old Indian
scout and Interpreter for Gen. Hen
ry Leavenworth, the founder of Fort
Leavenworth, died in that city recent
ly aged 104 years.
T. E. Brady, a prominent lawyer
of Great Falls. Mont, has been in
dicted for Illegal fencing of govern
ment land.
| Representative Gaines, of Tennessee,
in searching through old rocuments at
the national capitol, has discovered
an old statute which prohibits con-
gressmen from collecting salaries when
absent from their official duties. un-
| less detained by sickness.
John j Saphore, Il veteran actor who
played with the elder John Drew, is
dead at the Edwin Forest Home in
Philadelphia
Miner Hicks, who was recently re-
leased after spending 16 days In shaft
at Bakersfield. Cal. has signed Il con-
tract to go on the lecture platform, at
$500 per week
Harrison Parkman, the man who
first brought alfalfa from South Amer
lea and planted it in the United States,
died recently in Emporia, Kan, aged
73 years.
President A. ]. Cassatt, of the Penn
sylvania railroad. died suddenly of
heart disease at his home in Philadel-
phia recently. He had been ailing
since last September. but his death
was entirely unexpected by his family.
Bishop A. Coke Smith. of the NJ. E.
church. south, died recently at Ashe-
vile, N. C.
James J. Hill, president of the Great
Northern railroad. has announced that
he will retire on July next. His eld.
est son, Louis ]. Hill, will succeed
him.
miscellaneous.
Otto G. Stallard. charged with en-
bezzling $4,000 from the Peoples Ma
tional bank at, Sedan. Kan, has re-
turned to that place and voluntarily
surrendered 10 the authorities.
The Mississippi authorities have sue
cee8& in quelling the race riots at
WaHslali and Scooba. The militia is
HsE !isEs h complete control Of the sitaa; "a
TIE Mississippi authorities declare
thaEahe recent bloodshed in I-cmper
coutfy was caused by white hoodlums
&ho will be prosecuted for murder if
ealtaTed. s.sssssssssS;s "a,
Ga Magoon denies:.thaas q 1tteEsiss =;
aassHouble threatentla,. sasis a a;lsTs
province. Cuba. Is.
The demurrers of AiTifew Hamilton
to suits brought agaiiist him by, the
New York Life Insurance company to
compel an accounting were sustained
by the supreme court of New York.
Attorney General Young of Minneso-
Ia, has begun an action against the
Great Northern railroad to prevent the
issue OF sGO,OOO.OOO of new stock re-
Gently authorized by the board of III
rectors.
More miles of railway have been
constructed in the United States dur
ing 1906 than have been built during
any year since 1883, according TO the
Railway Age.
Nine persons were found frozen to
death on roads in England in one day
during the recent great storm
Lawrence Iceberg, tramp, who COM
mitted brutal murder near Las Ami
mas, Col. was taken from the jail by
n mob of citizens and hanged to "A tel
egraph pole.
A receiver has been appointed for
the Mobile. Jackson G. Kansas City
railroad, running from Mobile to Mid
dleton, Tenn, a distance of 800 miles.
The documents in connection with
the Nobel peace prize recently awarded
to President Roosevelt have arrived in
Washington.
Thirty-scven thousand poor people
were given Christmas dinners in New
York by the various charities.
Half of the town of africa. Chile. has
has been destroyed by IN earthquake
Several other towns in the vicinity suf-
tered severely.
Three men were killed and four ia
tally injured in a battle with strik'
: ing coal miters lat Stifrss,s, ky. re
Gently.
In drunken brawl on Christmas
day at Topeka, Kan, one negro was
killed. one fatally wounded and two
others seriously wounded. -