The Springfield herald., 1908-08-21

Silver touched 51M Tuesday, the
lowest since April, 1908.
Judge Sealbury has announced his
withdrawal from the Independence
party.
Grand Secretary Conrad H. Mann of
Kansas City officially states that
there are 1.S00 aeries in the Fraternal
Order of Eagles. with q membership
of $4,000.
The Pope on the Sth inst. Issued
document on the occasion of his priest
hood jubilee, addressed to the clergy
at-large in which he exhorts the eccles-
iastics to lead holy life and be an ex-
ample in this regard to others.
The new era of freedom in Turkey
brought about by the PRONUNCIATION of
constitution by the Sultan Is produc
ing symptoms of agitation among the
working classes. Strikes for increased
pay have already broken out among
the dock laborers, tramway men and
employees Of the tobacco factories.
At Lexington, Kentucky, Friday,
Barney Oldfield, the automobile rae
er, almost had his career terminated
when, while making fast mile, tire
exploded ana hurled Oldfield through
a fence. He was not hurt aside from
some bruises. The accident was kept
quiet. Oldfield went half mile in
forty-nine seconds.
The Aerial Navigation Company Of
Boston, to do a freight and passenger
business by airship between Boston.
New York and other points, was in
corporated at Boston Saturday, the
capital stock being $4,000. The in
corporators are named as H. II. Bond.
c. H. Bond of Boston and James l..
Bruce of Waltham.
King Frederick of Denmark and
Queen Louise took luncheon Friday at
Copenhagen, with party of 400 Dan
ish-Americans. Colonel Listoe of New
York, in speech conveyed President
Roosevelt's greetings to the King,
who in long and charming response
expressed his best wishes for Presi-
dent Roosevelt and the United States.
The fifth session of the Pan-Amer-
ican Medical congress was held at
Guatemala City, Guatemala, August
9th to 18th. President Cabrera, in an
address to the delegates called the
work of the congress scientific tri-
umph for the republics OF the Ameri-
can continent. The next congress will
be held in Lima, Peru, in August, 1911.
1t is reported at Trondjhem, Nor
way, that Walter Wellman, who was
in charge of the proposed Chicago
Record Herald balloon expedition to
the North Pole, will make the attempt
to reach the pole by airship in 1909
and that orders have been cabled to
provide his camp at Spitzbergen and
retain the men there through the win
ter.
The Spanish government will sus-
tain a heavy loss as the result of the
decision to retire from circulation
100000 worth of counterfeit peseta
coins. These coins have been in circu-
lation for the past fifteen years and
they have been practically accepted
as legal tender from the people. The
only return the government will get
will be from the sale of ingots, into
which the coins will be melted.
The four hundredth anniversary of
the conquest of the Island of Porto
Rico by Ponce de Leon was celebrated
at San Juan on the 18th and 14th inst.
The remains of Ponce de Leon were
carried through the streets of the city
at the head of spectacular procession
from the Church of San Jose to the
cathedral. where they We're deposited
in a crypt constructed with money
subscribed by the Spanish residents
of the island.
The executive committee for the
forty-second national encampment,
Grand Army Of the Republic, at Toledo
has authorized premiums for best cleo
trio display on the Maumee river by
any yacht or launch on Wednesday
and Thursday nights, Sept. and D.
The display will cover a distance of
four miles. The committee also au-
thorized the pyrotechnic display of
Sheridan's ride on Wednesday and
Thursday evenings. 1t will require 200
troops to produce the spectacle.
The Republican party in Tennessee
is divided into two factions, each of
which has nominated a candidate for
-ysvrnor. Hon. T. Asbury Wright
was nominated by the "home-rule"
faction at Chattanooga Monday. State
wide prohibition is the keynote of the
platform. At Nashville on Wednes-
day the Evans faction named George
n. Tillman of Davidson county for
governor and adopted a platform con-
tanning a plank providing for state
wide prohibition of the liquor traffic
through extension of what is known
as the four-mile law.