The Springfield herald., 1908-04-10
Miscellaneous,

Out OF l,Uo3,O32 pieces OIL HAL Hlal-
ter received in the dead letter Office
during the month of March, over 600,-
900 were returned to the senders,
breaking all records for this division.
The corporation commissioner of
Oklahoma las issued an order requir-
ing all public utility corporations to
file detailed statement of all reve-
nues at the close of business on June
20.
The reichstag has passed bill max
ing the German language compulsory
in all public meetings throughout the
empire. This law affects 100000 non
German inhabitants.
A verdict against the government
was recently rendered at Portland,
Me-, in suit for $4,000 for the loss
of brigantine which was sunk by a
United States gunboat off the Nova
Scotia coast AZ years ago.
Andrew Carnegie has added $4,000
900 to his foundation fund in order to
provide pensions for eligible profess
ors of state universities.
Dispatches from Paso Robes, Hot
Springs, Cal, state that the baths are
causing an improvement in the condi-
ton of Admiral Evans.
The Southwestern Volunteer Fire
mems association will hold the annual
tournament of the organization in Jop-
lin, Mo-, June 90, "a and %.
The proposition TO build new sub
way under Broadway and Lexington
avenue from the Battery TO the Bronx
has been approved by the New York
board of estimates. The work will
cost sGO,0OO,000.
The American car in the New York
to Paris race has been shipped from
Seattle to Valdez, Alaska.
Five passengers were injured by a
collision of trolley cars at Omaha.
Neb.. caused by dense fog.
Admiral Evans flagship, the Connec-
ticut, has rejoined the fleet at Mag
dalena bay.
Two hundred and fifty thousand bi-
luminous coal miners throughout the
country have quit work until a wage
settlement has been reached and a
scale adopted.
Fire recently destroyed the Corning
companys distillery at Peoria. H.,
causing loss of upward of s1,0O0,00O.
Senator Jefferson Davis was recently
fined s25 in the police court at Little
Rock, Ark, for flourishlng a revolver.
President Lewis of the miners
makes the positive statement that an
other joint convention of miners and
operators will be held in Indianapolis
10 Of Arri1
Marie Lehman, &c years old, took
her own life in st. Louis, in order that
her invalid sister might have the
81 900 insurance on her life.
Seventy members of the Nebraska
Democratic Editorial association were
entertained recently by w. j. Bryan
at a banquet at Lincoln.
The trial of the four land fraud
cases transferred from California to
Washington has begun. Two hundred
witnesses from IA states are present.
y. the / $50 delegates to the Repub-
lican state convention elected at the
Massachusetts primaries, 901 are for
Taft for president.
At the Cudahy packing plant in
Omaha, ten men We're overcome by es-
Gaping ammonia fumes. Several of
the men were in serious condition.
Robbers dynamited the safe in the
postofce at Sweet Springs, Mo-, re-
Gently and escaped with s1,4O0 in cur
rency and stamps.
Indiana coal miners have agreed
with the operators to continue at work
pending the settlement of a scale of
wages.
Ex-Congressman Snover of Port HUI
ron, Mich, has been appointed receiver
for the United Home Protectors Fra
ternity.