The Springfield herald., 1908-02-21
Miscellaneous.

Baron Takahira. who has returned
to Washington as Japanese ambassa-
dor, has declared in an interview that
war between the United States and
Japan would be the most inhuman
event in the worlds history" and was
too Hellish" to be thought Of
A report prepared by Admiral Con
verse to satisfy the president as to
the exact facts concerning the eff
cheney of United States battleships
states that our navy is not inferior to
those of foreign countries.
Seventy-one of the ia counties of
Missouri have voted in local option
elections to Danish the saloon.
The Farmers and Manufacturers
Bank of Rich Hill, Mo-. was recently
dynamited and robbed by bandits who
succeeded in getting away with 100000
in currency and gold coin. A reward
has been offered for their capture.
The Wisconsin democrats have
chosen three delegates to the Denver
convention. They are instructed to
vote as unit for William j. Bryan,
first, last and all the time.
One man was killed and two others
seriously injured by a runaway street
car in Omaha, Neb.. recently.
The indictment charging the pad
ding of payrolls against the superin-
tendent of the st. Joseph, Mo-. light
plant has been dismissed for lack of
evidence.
The Frisco railroad is storing coal
along its line in anticipation of a
ctril,a of r,,iporS in
Two men were killed and several
others injured by the bursting of a
blast furnace at Mckeesport, Pa.
Night riders 800 strong visited Ed
dyville, KY, and whipped ten men, one
of whom was the police Judge.
Secretary Taft gained signal vic
tory over Senator Foraker in the Ohio
primaries and the states 46 delegates
in the national convention will be
unanimous for the secretary.
wealthy building contractor of AL
ton. ILL.,, has confessed to robbing many
of the stores of his neighbors. He did
not use the stolen goods. but merely
gloated over them for a time and
then destroyed them.
The battleship fleet under Admiral
Evans passed through the harbor of
Valparaiso, Chile, recently, each ves-
sci saluting the Chilean president as
it passed in review.
In an interview at Detroit, ex-Secre-
tary of the Treasury Shaw is credited
with saying that j. Pierpont Morgan
would make an ideal candidate for
president.
Charles Walkenwitz, a joint keeper
at Leavenworth, Kan, was recently
held up and robbed of $500 in his
place of business.
The long overdue steamer Eagle
Point has reached Philadelphia from
London. The vessel was given up for
lost for a time.
The Kentucky Legislature has spent
one month in fruitless effort to elect
a United States senator.
The Baltimore e Ohio railroad has
put into effect the "nine-hour law" lin
iting the hours of service of all classes
of train operatives TO nine hours in
each "a.
Oklahomas "Jim Crow" law requir-
ing separate coaches and waiting
rooms for negroes is now in effect on
street cars and railroads.
The "suffragettes" of New York
paraded the streets and Joined the
socialists in a mass meeting where
speeches were made for five hours.
Gold, silver and copper has been
found in the Culebra cut of the Pan
ANA canal. An investigation is being
made to test the quantity.
The Peruvian authorities will enter
tain the officers and men of the battle
ship fleet with bull fight during their
stay at Callao.
Gov. Shelton, of Nebraska, has com
muted the sentence of John Martin
whose sweetheart came from Alaska
to plead for his liberty.
Mossville. Service and Soso, three
small Mississippi towns, were recent
ly demolished by tornadoes. Several
people were killed.