The Springfield herald., 1908-05-15

King Edward and Queen Alexander
returned to London on the 4th inst.
from their Scandinavian tour.
The steamer Empress OF India has
brought to Vancouver news of series
of disastrous conaagrations at Pekin.
involving the loss of many lives due
to incendiarism.
Residents of Saffarana. Etna. Lin
gaglossa and many neighboring viii
lagos are fleeing in terror on account
of the threatening aspect of the vol
cano, Mount Etna, which is in erup-
ton.
The citizens of Auckland, New Zeal
and have appointed various commit
tees to arrange for an adequate well
come to the American fleet of battle
ships when they call there next Sep
tember.
From $50 to 300 officers and cadets,
including members of some of the prin-
cipal families of the Japanese nobil-
ity, were drowned April Both when an
explosion in powder magazine sent
the cruiser Matsushima to the bottom.
John Murray, the London publisher
has obtained verdict of 1880 dam
ages against the London Times be-
cause the Times accused the publish
ters of the late Queen Victoria at a
high price.
Count Henry De La Vaulx, jacques
Faure and Alfred lie Blanc, the
aercnauts, have been selected as the
French representatives in the interna-
tional balloon contest for the James
Gordon Bennett cup in Berlin October
11th.
The London postal authorities have
learned that two bags of mail from
London, containing securities and val
uables worth 100000 We're stolen H.
New York the latter part of March.
Both bags disappeared In transit be-
tween the steamers and the postoffice.
The news of the conclusion of the
arbitration treaty between the United
States and Japan has been well re-
ceived at Toxic and it is believed it
will remove whatever suspicion exists
regarding the mutual relations of the
two countries.
The twenty-fifth delegated session
of the general conference of the Meth
odist Episcopal church, at Baltimore,
was begun on the 9th inst, being
called to order by Bishop Henry w.
Warren of Denver Delegates and Wis
itors were present from twenty-four
countries.
Edwin E. Brennan, lawyer Of Butte,
Montana, was arrested in the office of
f. Augustus Heinze in New York,
charged with attempting to eXtort $4O.-
900 from Heinze. HeinZe alleged that
Brennan had threatened Heinze to ex-
pose some illegal copper transaction
of which he, Brennan, knew, If he was
not paid 100000
Wright brothers. aeronauts, now at
Kill Devil hill, near Manteo, North
Carolina made first flight in their
new aeroplane on the 9th inst. AL
though but test flight, 1t was success
full in every respect, the machine I'M
der the perfect control of its two
makers, travelling 1000 feet 1t was
made to alight with ease and in per-
feet safety.
Blackie, the only cat in the world
with a private fortune of $4,000, died
at Wikesbarre, Pennsylvania, a
few days since. being chloro-
formed to end his pain when it
was seen that his Illness was hopeless.
Blackie and his dead sister Pinkie.
were left $4,000 by the late Benjamin
F: Dilley, of Wilkesbarre, the income
to be used in providing for them as
long as they lived.
Frank ]. Bruno of Colorado Springs
addressed the delegates to the national
conference of charities and correc-
tion at Baltimore. urging the estab.
lishment of a national sanatorium for
the treatment of consumptives, as the
most economic way of relieving GER
tain bad conditions among sufferers
from the white plague. He argued
that the Rocky Mountain region was
the preferable situation for such an
institution