The Springfield herald., 1908-09-11
Con NDENSATION
OF FRESH NEWS
THE LATEST IMPORTANT DIS.
PATCHES PUT INTO SHORT,
CRISP PARAGRAPHS.
STORY OF The WEEK
SHOWING THE PROGRESS OF
EVENTS IN OUR OWN AND
FOREIGN LANDS.
WESTERN NEWS.

Work has been commenced on the
first eight miles of the Union Pacific
out of Seattle, Wash.
1t is estimated that losses by the
Rawhide, New, fire will aggregate
100000. The town is "PhoenixinS'
with remarkable rapidity.
Official returns compiled by Secre-
tary of Agriculture Coburn show the
population of Kansas to be 1,65G,799,
an increase over last year OF G,639.
According TO the petition to probate
the will of the late Col. William f. vi
las filed ill the County Court at Madi-
son, Wis, his estate is valued at $S42,-
600.
Rear Admiral Henry Glass, U. S. N,
retired, died on the LIST inst. at Pas
Robes, California, of heart failure, fol
lowing an operation performed several
days before at his home in Berkeley.
A large Japanese insurance company
has practically determined to enter the
United States and a prominent San
Francisco underwater has already been
decided upon for the United States
manager.
At the Minnesota state fair at st.
Paul Saturday De Palma, in II ninety
horsepower machine broke the worlds
automobile record for mile on a circu-
lar track by covering the distance in
fifty-one seconds flat.
Il. II. Hartman. while passing
through Oregon, told a delegation Of
Voos Bay citizens that If he could be in
sured interest of four per cent on m
investment of s5,O00,000 for ten years
he would build road into the Co.'s
Bay country.
A Carnegie medal has been received
by Marjorie Coast. the eleven-year-
old daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. p. c.
Coast of Iowa City, Iowa, who leaped
into the Iowa river and saved the life
of Margaret Hayes. daughter of Prof.
and Mrs. Samuel Hayes, last summer.
A device for the purpose of making
women get off n street car without
facing backward is being tried by the
Chicago City Railway Company. The
passenger has nothing to grasp except
a handle at the forward end of the step
and seemingly cannot help facing for
ward when leaving the car.
An increase of $4,000 over July,
1907, is shown in the gross earnings OF
the Colorado & Southern railroad for
the corresponding month this year.
The total gross earnings for July, 1908.
are $1,240,S6S, being the largest of any
month since last January. The operat-
ing expenses of the road were reduced
$4,000 for the same month.
Contending that the United States
district attorney was not warranted by
law in attempting to collect the $1,000
fine imposed upon the late United
States Senator Mitchell in connection
with the land fraud cases, from his es-
tate, United States Judge Wolverton at
Portland, Ore, has handed down de-
.cision vacating the fine imposed on the
Senator July %. 1905.
Four heirs of the late Hugh NcCurdy
of Corunna. Mich, who left his $ll0,-
900 estate to the Masonic Orphans
Home at Grand Rapids, Mich, have
filed notice of n suit to break the Will.
Mr.. McCur;ly. who was one of the Wild
est known Masons in the United States
left his widow only an annuity of $500
and his son. Spencer, a life interest in
the farm upon which he lived.
The American Smelling & Refining
Company has issued its annual report
for the year ending April 30th last,
which shows decrease in earning
compared with the previous year of
SO S46.776. President Daniel Guggen
helm in his report to the stockholders
said that the decline in business had
not impaired the company's surplus,
which now amounts 10 13,40S,219. He
also stated that there is a marked i'm
provement at the present time in the
market value of copper and lead.