The Springfield herald., 1908-03-06
Miscellaneous.

Miscellaneous.
The Missouri Pacific shops at Sc
dalia, Mo-. employing 500 men, have
been closed until further notice.
A fire at Lexington, Mo-, destroyed
property estimated to be worth $780,
000
A fire at Tampa, Fla, burned over
district covered by is city blocks
and $50 buildings were destroyed.
An attempt was made in Teheran,
Persia, to assassinate the shah by a
bomb. While the shah himself es-
capped injury. three of his out-riders
were killed and score of bystanders
were wounded.
Two persons were killed and several
others injured in Kansas City recently
by trolley cars jumping the track at
curves at the foot of steep grades.
The assets of the building and loan
associations of the United States now
1907 OF s55,OOO,OOO.
With the aid of four Democratic
votes and amid scenes of the widest
excitement, the Republicans of tie
Kentucky legislature have succeeded
in electing ex-Gov William Bradley
as United States senator.
During the hearing at Washington
before the interstate commerce COM
mission it developed that the Santa
Fe railroad officials had coerced the
telegraph operators on the line to sign
letters prepared in the general offices,
alleging that the president of their
m :
them at the hearing.
The public school building in Hois-
ington, Kan, was recently destroyed
by fire. The 800 pupils in the building
at the time escaped without injury.
Frank A. Munsey of New York has
purchased the Baltimore Sun.
The Missouri supreme court has de-
cided that the law prohibiting the sale
of Intoxicating liquors within five miles
of the state university is unconstitu-
tional.
The bank at Lincolnville, Kan, was
recently dynamited and robbed of $500
in currency.
Eighty-nne million pounds of Amer.
ican copper was sold in Europe during
February.
In a fire which destroyed car barn
of the New York City Railway com.
pany 74O cars were destroyed and a
loss of 81. 100000 was sustained.
The village of Rival. n. D., was re
Gently completely destroyed by fire.
The supreme court of Texas has sus
tanned the lower courts wherein they
rendered a judgment of Sl,6OO0OO dam
ages and custer from the state of the
Waters-Pierce Oil company.
In preparing the body of the Cain
olic priest who was recently murdered
in his church at Denver, for burial, II
was discovered that he wore heavy
bands of steel chain about his body
and arms. To each link of the chain
was attached a sharp hook so arranged
that every movement of the body
caused the hooks to penetrate his
flesh.
The Missouri supreme court has de
cided that husband who Stays his
wife can not inherit her property.
Daniel E. Naughton, assistant clerk
of the St. Louis house of delegates has
been convicted as being accessory af
ter the fact to the alleged bribery OF
Delegates Priesmeyer and Warner
One of the French cars in the race
from New York to Paris was robbed OF
guns and Photographic outfit at We
waka, Ind.
For the first time in the history OF
the United States the gold coin and
bullion in the treasury amounts tc
more than 1,OOO.000,OO0.
BY pressing an electric button al
the White House in Washington, Presi
dent Roosevelt started the first train
through the tunnel under the Hudson
river connecting Hoboken and New
York.
The Ohio Legislature has passed the
county local option law.
Lieut.. Gen. Stoessel, recently sen
fenced to death for the surrender OF
Port Arthur to the Japanese, has pc
titioned the Car for full pardon.
The Kansas Populists will meet in
Topeka on March IL to select dele
gates to the national convention which
meets in st. Louis on April 2.
A committee of stockholders of the
Metropolitan Street Railway have
filed with Gov. Hughes of New York
% specific charges against District At
torney w T. Jerome and ask his re.
moval from Office The governor is un'
decided as to his action in the prem
ises.