The Springfield herald., 1908-03-20
Miscellaneous.


China has conceded all of the Jap
anese demands in settlement OF the
Tatsu Maru incident including the pur-
chase of the arms aboard the steamer
and a salute by Chinese warship to
the Japanese flag when it is re-hoisted
on the Tatsu.
The president has issued a procla-
nation promulgating the terms of the
treaty of arbitration recently agreed
upon by the United States and
France.
The surgeon general of the navy
states Saa. there is much preventable
suffering in the navy and recommends
the organization of trained women
nurses in the hospital corps and the
appointment of dental surgeons.
The jury in the first of the Pennsyl-
vania capitol graft cases returned a
verdict finding the four defendants,
Sanlerson, Snyder, Mathues and Shu-
maker guilty of defrauding the state.
| The trial lasted seven weeks and the
| Jury was out six hours. There are
ten other persons yet to be tried for
the same offense.
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state convention at Topeka and cleo
ted delegates to the national conven-
tion at st. Louis. Resolutions indors-
ing Thomas Watson for president were
adopted
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw has begun pro
ceedings for divorce from her hus-
band Harry X. Thaw. Papers in
the case have been served on the de-
fendant in Matteawan asylum and Up
on his mother as next of kin.
The school building at Napoleon,
Ohio the largest of its kind in the
state, was totally destroyed by fire re-
Gently Nobody was injured.
The target ranges have been estab-
lished at Magdalena Bay and the
world -girdling fleet is busy at target
practice with the big guns.
The minister of justice has asked
the Russian douma for $1,0O0,0OO for
the enlargement of the Russian pris-
ons which are overcrowded.
Banker Charles w. Morse and AL
fred II. Curtis pleaded not guilty to
20 counts in an indictment in the
federal court at New York. They are
charged with conspiracy and false
entries.
Giuseppe Ala. the Italian anarchist
who killed Catholic priest at the
altar in his church at Denver, has
been convicted of murder in the first
degree and sentenced TO hang.
The final reply from Washington re-
garding the immigration question has
greatly pleased Japan.
| The American battleship fleet ar
rived at Magdalena bay two days
ahead of schedule, after journey OF
| 10000 miles, with all the vessels in
better shape than when they left
| Hampton Roads three months ago. In
| his message announcing his arrival
Admiral Evans said the fleet was ready
for any emergency on one days notice
| A crank recently entered the Mer'
| chants National bank at Omaha and
I demanded $4,000. He threatened to
blow up the building unless his de
mands were complied with. He was
| enticed outside by Vice President
tody by officers.
Fifteen thousand Filipinos were
made homeless by the destruction oil
1000 native huts at Manila by fire
which swept through the district.
A disastrous prairie fire occurred
recently near Holton. Kan. The fire
swept over 700 acres of land. destroy
ing everything in its path.
Five hundred persons were recent
ly poisoned at a church social at Up
/ per Sandusky. o.. by eating chickens
and waffles.
At New Albany, Ind. eight persons
were injured when passenger train
| struck trolley car on a grade cross
| ing
One of the buildings of the Sar
| Francisco almshouse was burned re
Gently. At the time of the fire 2OC
persons were in the building but all
escaped injury.
| The grand review of the ships of the
I Atlantic and Pacific fleets will take
place at San Francisco on May S.
John r. Walsh. former president oi
the Chicago National bank, was re
fused new trial in the federal court
at Chicago and sentenced TO serve five
| years in the federal prison at Fort
Leavenworth, Kan. He was convicted
of misrepresentation of the banks