The Springfield herald., 1908-03-20

The new battleship New Hampshire
has been ordered placed in commission
at the League Island navy yard.
1t is announced that Japan is find
ing it's nationalized railroads burden
too heavy to carry and proposes to
lease them to private interests for a
term OF years.
Chancellor MacCracken of New
York university will take up course
OF lectures at Copenha university
on the subject of American Univer-
stiles.
Emperor William of Germany sent
warm personal congratulations to
President Roosevelt on the arrival of
the fleet at Magdalena Bay ahead OF
schedule time.
The supreme court of Missouri has
rendered a decision that the second
division of the Jackson county criminal
is a victory for the Kansas City thea
trical people.
The itinerary of the battleship fleet
on its return from the Pacific, is an
nounced as follows: Leaving San
Francisco on July 6, the vessels will
visit Hawaii, Samoa, Melbourne and
Sydney. Australia. thence to Manila,
and from there to New York through
the SueZ canal, stopping only at such
ports as are necessary for coaling
purposes.
The delegates to the congress of
mothers were received by President
Roosevelt at the White House, who de-
livered a characteristic address to
them.
Threefourths of the town of Big
Timber, Mont, was recently wiped
out by the most disastrous fire in the
history of the state. Three hundred
families were rendered homeless.
The old wagon in which John Erown
used to make his pilgrimages during
his crusade against slavery, was re-
Gently destroyed by fire at Iowa City,
Iowa.
Harry Orchard has pleaded guilty
to the murder of former Gov. Steunen-
berg, of Idaho, at Caldwell. Sentence
was deferred.
In spite of the threats of anarchists
King Alfonso OF Spain visited BARGE
Iona and carried out the program as
planned Not a single untoward in
cident occurred to mar his visit
The program of the Nebraska Re-
publican state convention at Omaha
went through without hitch. Gov.
Sheldon, Senator Norris Brown, Vic
or A al
were elected delegates at large and
unanimously instructed for Secretary
Taft.
The wages of % 900 cotton mill oper-
atives in Massachusetts have been cut
10 per cent.
An important conference was recent
ly held at the White House respecting
proposed amendments to the Sher-
man antitrust law
The Porto Rican house of delegates
has passed a bill authorizing lottery
to be conducted by the insular treas
urer. The bill provides prizes aggre-
eating $4,000 per month.
The Oklahoma Republican state con-
vention elected B. S. Mcclure, Dennis
Flynn, Patrick Dow and j. A. Harris
as delegates at large and instructed
them to vote for Secretary Taft for
president.
The Kansas conference of the Meth
odist Episcopal church exonerated DR..
j. T. Mcfarland, formerly of Topeka,
of the charge of heresy brought by DR..
George A. Cooke of Troy, N. Y.
The coroner's verdict in the school
horror at Collinwood, Ohio, says that
existing conditions in the building
were to blame for the great loss of
life, but no fault is charged to anyone.
A Swede apparently insane recently
fired ~ shots from a rifle into the
royal castle at Christiana. The royal
family were not in the building at the
time
The largest missionary convention
ever held is in session at Pittsburg,
Pa, with $500 delegates present.
The bank at Tyro, Kan, was recent
ly entered by two masked men in
broad daylight, who held up the of
ficials and employees present and sue
ceeded in getting away with all the
cash in sight, The bandits went south
into Oklahoma.
The railroads of Kansas have ap-
pealed to the United States circuit
court for restraining order enjoin-
ing the state board of railroad COM
missioners from putting into effect the
new maximum freight schedules on
April /.