The Springfield herald., 1908-08-28
THEWORLD IN
PARAGRAPHS
BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND
OTHER COUNTRIES
INLA1E DISPATCHES
DOiNGe AND HAPPENINGS
THAT MARK THE PROG
REsS OF THE AGE.
WESTERN NEWS.

The recent heavy rains In Missouri,
Kansas. Iowa and Nebraska have as
sured heavy corn crop In nearly
every section of those states.
1t is reported in Chicago that Pull
mans mammoth shops are to be RACED
and built upon remodeled scale for
the express purpose of the manufac-
ture OF steel palace cars.
A decrease of $40. O.532.7sS in revenue
over operating expenses and taxes is
shown by the annual statements OF
the Union Pacific and Southern Pa
cific companies. made public on the
18th inst.
On the 18th inst. the Western Pas
senger association notified the Rock
Island road that their advertised rates
of one and one-half fares for Kansas
state fairs was premature and illegal.
Other Kansas roads protested strongly
against the reduction from cents.
Governor John A. Johnson was re-
nominated for governor by the Demo-
cratic state convention of Minnesota
on the 18th inst. The first mention OF
his name was the occasion of cheers
and applause that lasted sixty-four
minutes.
While Mr.. Bryan was speaking at the
ball park in Des Moines Friday night
the temporary platform on which were
seated several hundred people col
lapsed, but no one was hurt and he
resumed his speech within five
minutes.
John v. Farwell, senior member OF
the wholesale dry goods firm of j. v.
Farweil G. Co., died at Chicago on the
goth inst, after long illness, aged
eighty three. He had been engaged in
the dry goods business in Chicago
since 1862.
The Dominion government has de-
cided to dam all of the streams run
inning down the entire eastern slope OF
the Rocky mountains in Canada, with
the view OF conserving the supply and
preventing an annual waste OF water
by flood in the spring.
J. r. Caldwell. noted horse fancier
of Mechanicsville. Iowa, has offered to
make a personal gift of horse large
enough to carry William H. Taft and
stand up under the burden. The horse
he offers is Buffalo" magnificent
chestnut weighing 1900 pounds. He
is said to be the largest saddle horse
in Iowa.
Announcement is made Of the pro-
motion OF j. d. Mcnamara. assistant
general passenger agent OF the Wa
bash railroad. to the position of gen.
eral passenger agent, with headquar-
ters at st. Louis, succeeding Charles
S. Crane. for whom the new office of
general passenger agent at ST. Louis
was created.
The new army portable wireless
telegraph kits. perfected last winter,
have just been given their first tests
in the Northwest at Camp David S.
Stanley. where the regular army and
the National Guards of Washington
and Oregon are holding their annual
field maneuvers. Messages were picked
up from a number of wireless stations
on Puget sound. Instead of using n
telescope pole to carry the radiating
and receiving wires in the air, two
huge king kites were sent up. to which
the wires connecting with the instru-
ments were attached.
The cruiser Colorado. which went on
LIE rocks at Double Bluff. Puget sound.
Saturday, was more seriously damaged
than at first was supposed. An ex-
animation at the Bremerton navy yard
showed that her forward plates were
badly dented in several places and
that ,..e plates were sprung. 1t will
be necessary to put the vessel in dry
dock for perhaps thirty days to make
repairs. The Colorado will he unable
to join the Pacific fleet on it's cruise
to the Samoan islands. but it is expect
ed she will join it probably on the re-
turn trip from the Samoan islands to
Honolulu.