The Springfield herald., 1908-09-25
AN EP|TOME OF
LATE live NEWS
CONDENSED RECORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, DolNGS, ACHIEVE
MENTs. sUFFERINGs, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
WESTERN NEWS.

Frank M. Nye, brother of the late
Bill Nye, the humorist, has been nomi-
mated for Congress on the Republican
ticket in Minnesota.
Chisholm, Minnesota, was almost en-
tireiy destroyed by fire on the 7th
INST. The town had population of
about 1000, nearly all of whom are
left homeless.
Fire at Rawhide, Nevada, Friday
night destroyed large part of the
town, rendering 5000 people home
less and inflicting property loss of
over $750,OO0.
]. l.. Liebharlt, a central figure in
the German revolution of 1S49, and
associate of Carl Schurz, died Monday
morning at his home in Denver. aged
eighty-one years
Congressman Jay Ford Laning of
Norwalk, o., has been acquitted of the
charge of embezzling the stock of the
Norwalk Savings Bank Company and
OF other financial misdemeanors.
The Denver, Laramie e Northwest
ern Railway Company has established
a permanent cam five miles southeast
of Johnstown, Colorado, where it has
a large equlpme i. and has begun grad
ing.
The annual report of Brig Gen. Earl
ID. Thomas, commanding the Depart
ment of the Colorado, just made pub
lie, shows strength of the United
States army in that district of 1G3 com
missioned officers and 1853 men.
A blow 10 scientific road improve
ment in Minnesota has been admins
tered by the State Supreme Court,
which has declared unconstitutional
the law passed in 1907, providing for
county superintendent OF highways.
Hi Henry, the veteran minstrel, lies
at his home at Horseshoe Bend,
twenty-five miles from Boise, Idaho. in
a critical condition frCm apoplexy. He
was stricken week ago Sunday, but
has been steadily growing worse and
practically all hope of his recovery has
been abandoned.
Gov. Curry of New Mexico left Tues
day night for Oyster Bay to discuss
with President Roosevelt southwestern
affairs and to extend to him an invita-
ton to attend the irrigation congress
at Albuquerque, presenting him with
the invitation of the congress, en-
graved on plate of gold.
Secretary w. F. X. Mills of the Den
yer Chamber of Commerce received a
telegram Tuesday stating that the COM
ing of A. f. Potter, chief of the grazing
department of the federal forestry bu-
reau, to Denver, Sept. Goth, to hold Il
public hearing on complaints against
certain rangers and regulations of the
forestry department. was a certainty.
Mr.. Potter will represent Clifford Pin
chot, head of the bureau, who is una
Bile to come.
Arrangements for Marathon race,
the first to be held on the Pacific coast
have been made by the Century Ath-
letic Club at Oakland, California. The
course of twenty-five miles will extend
from Fruitdale to Haywards over
shaded roads and canons. The race will
be open to all registered amateurs and
all applicants will have to undergo a
rigid medical examination. The race
will probably be run Thanksgiving day.
In an interview at Salt Lake,
Thomas A. Edison, tie inventor, said:
within five years airships will be
carrying passengers across the ocean
in eighteen hours, 200 miles an hour.
Aerial flight will be commercialized in
that time. The North pole can and
will be reached in a forty-eight hour
trip. The perfected heliocoptor will
be able to encircle the globe in a
week"
Resulting in complete success as far
as its flight is concerned. a huge
tetrahedral kite loaded with instru-
ments for recording weather condi-
tions was flown from the summit of
Pixies Peak on the 7th inst by Prof.
William Blair, a government expert
mental expert. The kite attained a
height of 1000 feet above the peak,
or more than 10000 feet above sea
level. Observations were taken and
will be reported later.