Semi-weekly herald., 1908-12-07
TELEGRAPH NEWS.

TELEGRAPH NEWo.
The Chinese commission has arrived
at Washington, bearing gifts of thanks
for the remittance of the Boxer In
demnity.
The postoffice safe at Kingsbury
Cal, was blown open by cracksmen
who secured $3.50 In stamps and $3.50 |
in cash.
The rural carriers In the postoffice |
service daily pass 100000 homes, and |
the delivery is in operation on943.0S7
miles of road.
Higher salaries for federal judges
are urged by a committee of the New
York bar. which asks aid in securing
the passage of a bill now before con.
gress.
Walter Wellman says the lines are
being drawn in the struggle between
President-elect Taft and Speaker Can.
non on the issue of real revision of
the tariff.
| The recital of Russian horrors at the
Rudovitz hearing, in Chicago, drives
women from the court room and al
most results In the collapse of Miss
MacLean, court reporter.
A Philadelphia woman announces
that she is about to start crusade
against the germ-laden kiss. Non-cru-
saders will cruelty decide offhand that
she is old or homely. or both.
Rev. w. r. Huntington, for twenty
five years pastor of Grace church
New York City. was presented with
$4,000 as a voluntary contribution
and asked to withdraw his resignation.
Robert F. Sutherland, speaker of the
Canadian house of commons. in Chi
cago for the Illinois st. Andrews so
ciety annual banquet. declares that
| the dominion must continue rival in
, trade of the United States.
The low price of silver is causing
! much uneasiness among producers.
! Seems to keep going down each week.
The Mexican government is purchas-
e ing silver at the rate of 100000 ounces
e weekly and the United States govern
: ment buys 125,000 ounces weekly.
e The official report of the American
l. Railway association shows that on the
available Cars idle on on the 6Asf sidetracRs c
' and 100000 in the shops being repair
/ ed. That number has been gradual
t ly reduced until on the 18th of No
i vember the total was 121,174.
The ball players who have three
times won the National league pennant
for Chicago want more money. Mordi.
cal Brown and Orval Overhaul ha re
joined Manager Chance in demanding
an increase and the management Will
! have to yield If these stars play the
coming season. Brown has already
been offered $1,000 to manage a local
Chicago team.
1t has thus far cost the United
States $S4,572,998 for the construction
IT the Panama canal. according to the
annual report of the isthmian canal
commission, in which the various
phases of the construction work are
taken up in detail. The federal gov.
ernment has made total appropriations
OF $l2O,964, ,46S for the canal, and the,
is thus balance of more than SIG. 900.
600 still available out of the old ap-
preparations.
The secretary of the interior Mon
day approved new regulations u,6vr
the timber and stone act of June 3
1878. The act provides that timber
and stone land shall be sold a. the
minimum price of $3.50 per acra. They
have heretofore been sold at flat
rate of that sum. Under the new reg
ulations adopted. such lands must be
appraised and will be sold AZ the
| appraised value. The regulations do
not apply to applications already pend
ing.
Deposits of the national banks in
Chicago increased $S.....OOO between
Sept. 23 and Nov. "a to total of s37S..
SSl, 900, the highest amount they have
ever reported. In the same period the |
banks expanded their loans only ST.. |
o1S,OOO and increased their cash
means S12.S31. 900. As compared with
the figures of the national banks as
OF Dec. 3, 1907. the figures now pub.
ished show an increase Of $4,000.
ooo In deposits, an addition of a lit. |
tie more than s1.OO0.00O to the loans
and s4S,000.00O larger cash means.
X IL. Wymans. lieutenant in the
Dutch navy, is In New York on his
way back to Holland to report on an
expedition he conducted into hitherto
unexplored sections of Dutch Guipa.
We started out from Paramaribo."
said Lieut.. Wymans. "and proceeded
more than a hundred miles up the
river. Later we cut across
country to the Corantys river. a boun.
dairy between British Guina and Dutch ,
Guiana. We encountered strange ,
lriDe oil negroes. They spoke a Ian