The Springfield herald., 1908-07-03

| Secretary Taft was at New Haven
Tuesday and sat, with members Of his
class Of rs In Yale university, to wit
ness a base ball game between Yale
and Harvard, in which Yale won.
A telegram received at Manila from
the island of Negros tells of the muir
der of II. ID. Everett. government for
ester: T. Is. Wakley, n school teacher,
and four Filipinos by Hill tribesmen.
The Empress of China left Yoko-
homa. Japan, Sunday with 100 saloon
and $50 Chinese steerage passengers
and the Empress of India left day
later with fifty saloon and 345 Chin
ese.
| A bill to prevent the drinking of in
toxicating liquors on passenger trains
in Louisiana has been passed by the
House Of that state, 81 to II. The bill
lad previously been passed by the
Senate.
Leon de la Grange will come to
America late in July and In the first
two weeks of August will give exhi-
bitions of his aeroplane flights in some
locality in the immediate vicinity OF
New York City.
The friends of George A. Garden,
chairman of the state Democratic ex-
ecutive committee OF Texas, are try
ing to organize strength to make him
temporary chairman of the national
convention at Denver.
Governor Sanders of Louisiana has
signed the Locke anti-racing bill and
| it will go into effect July 25th. Sew
eral tracks are now operating In Louis
lana and the effect of the law is
awaited with much interest.
Six hundred women held a mass
meeting In Brownville, Brooklyn, and
declared their intention to fight
against the increased prices of meat
and fowls. They also paraded and sew
eral meat stores were stoned.
The government has decided to call
an international conference In Paris
with the object of establishing regu-
lations to facilitate automobile travel
in Europe. This conference will meet
simultaneously with the International
Road Congress.
| BY a vote of twenty to fourteen the
Senate of Louisiana defeated tha
| state referendum prohibition bill. This
will probably end the fight for prohibi-
ton in the state at this session of the
| Legislature A similar measure was
recently defeated in the House.
|
have granted temporary injunction
restraining the Supreme Court OF the
Independent Order of Foresters from
increasing its insurance rates. pend
ing the action brought on that point
by Henry j. Simmelink. The increase
was ordered at the annual meeting at
Toronto in June.
The big tower of the Metropolitan
| Life Insurance building in Madison
Square is almost completed. This new
est addition to New Yorks sky-scrap-
ers is 727 feet high, far overtopping
| the Singer building. The original plan
was to have the tower only G5S feet
high, but the plans were changed and
several stories added.
News has reached the Hague that
rebellion bas broken out at Padang,
along the west coast of Sumatra. which
has reached alarming proportions. Ac-
cording to the reports from Batavia.
Java, almost the whole native popu-
| lace is reported to have risen under
the leadership of fanatical priests.
| Three battles have been fought.
Vassily Rebkoff, a Russian inven-
tor, has arrived In America to exhibit
his new motor boat to the United
States government. He asserts that
with twelve horsepower he can main
tain a speed of thirty-one miles an
hour and make the journey up the
Hudson from New York to Albany in
four anil cne-half hours.
Leon De La Grange, the French
aeroplanist. made a flight at Milan.
Italy, June oath. and was in the air
for nearly IS minutes. He would have
surpassed his record of the day before.
when he remained in the air for 16
minuates and 80 seconds. had not OF
the wheels of his aeroplane lightly
touched the ground for an instant
while he was circling the course.