The Springfield herald., 1908-04-03
Miscellaneous.

During a demonstration of unem
ployed at Union square, New York,
Selig Silverstein attempted to throw
bomb at squad of police who We're at
tempting to clear the square when the
bomb exploded in his hand, killing a
companion and fatally injuring Silver
stein. Four policemen were slightly
injured.
Five hundred and fifty-one Mis-
sourians and 1856 Kansans are taking
the famous world cruise with the bat
tleship fleet.
The flagship Connecticut has left
Magdalena bay and is bringing Ad-
miral Evans to San Francisco. From
San Francisco he will so to San Luis
Obispo to take treatment at a mineral
spring resort.
The president has issued an order
prohibiting scorchins by automobilists
in the canal zone.
r. C. Horne, formerly editor of the
Kansas City Post, charged with kill
ing an employe of that paper has
been acquitted on the grounds of in
sanity. He is to be taken to an asy-
lum.
The German cruiser Bremen has
taken 10 revolutionary refugees from
Haiti to Jamaica.
Omaha is to hold national corn ex-
position next October.
]. o. Stewart, justice of the peace
OF Jasper county, Mo, has been ar
rested on a charge of embezzlement.
The new Pennsylvania railroad
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Amboy, N j., was dynamited recent
ly The damage amounted to $4,000.
The state primary election laws of
Louisiana have been declared unconsti-
tutional in the state courts.
The worst prairie fire in years swept
through the country about Kimball,
S. D. recently laying waste thousands
of acres of land and burning houses
and barns.
The western railroads have an
nounced special rates for the Demo
cratic convention at Denver in June.
William b. Ridgely has rendered his
resignation as comptroller of the cur
rency to President Roosevelt. Mr..
Ridgely goes to Kansas City as presi-
dent of the re-organized National
Bank of Commerce. Lawrence o.
Murray succeeds to the comptroller
ship.
Emperor William of Germany de-
nies that he made any objection to DR..
David Jayne Hill as ambassador from
America to Berlin.
A tornado visited the town of New
Boston, Ia, blowing 10 freight cars
from the tracks, demolishing a church
and iniuring a number of people.
The Chinese boycott of Japanese on
account of the Tatsu Maru incident
has been widely taken up by Chinese
merchants throughout Australia.
The San Francisco authorities are
preparing for a raid to clean out the
anarchist quarters before the fleet ar
rives.
Two severe earthquake schocks were
felt in Mexico City recently. No lives
were lost but the Inhabitants were
seriously alarmed.
James Clark, who killed Sheriff Nc
Cracker of Barber county, Kansas, re
Gently, died in the jail at Wellington
from wounds received in the fight.
Four persons were killed and several
injured in a wreck on the Queen &
Crescent railroad near Lexington, Ky,
recently.
On account of disquieting reports
from Haiti two additional war YES
sells have been sent to Port Au Prince
by the navy department
Because the fifth of May Will be cleo
tion day in San Francisco, the battle
ship fleet will delay its arrival there
until the sixth
A general strike of the coal min
ers in Missouri. Kansas, Oklahoma,
Arkansas and Texas has been called.
The strike will affect $4,000 men.