The Springfield herald., 1908-01-10

| tuberculosis among the cattle herds OF
the state.
Night riders recently swooped down
upon Russellville, Logan county, KY,
!, burning a number of Independent to-
bacco concerns and .ther establish
ments and shooting three men who ap'
pearel upon the streets.
The bank clearings of the country
for the last week in 1907 shows a de-
crease of 41.5 per cent as compared
with the last week in 1906.
All the government troops except
two companies have been removed
from Goldfield, New.
During December Il total OF 2,2OO,-
500 cubic yards of earth was exca-
waited on the Panama canal.
At Wharton, Ohio, three families
comprising dozen people were seri-
ously poisoned by eating cheese.
The Western Passenger association
has refused to grant special rates to
the spring and fall meetings of mer-
chants in Chicago and St. Louis.
III. r. Storrs. a beekkeeper for the
California Safe Deposit and Trust
company at San Francisco, has con-
fessed to making false entries in the
banks book amounting to $l,00O,OO0
Maximilien Harden, who has been
on trial at Berlin for libeling Count
Won Moltke in his paper, has been
sentenced to four months imprison-
ment.
In the Pettibone trial OF Boise, Ida
ho, the prosecution made the only ar
gumeat to the jury, the defense refus-
ing to argue the evidence.
The government of Austria Hun
gary has contributed $4,000 to relieve
the sufferers from the recent mine
disasters of Pennsylvania and West
Virginia.
An Atlantic City chair pusher
found a pocketbook containing $400
in money and jewelry valued at sew
eral thousand dollars which he re-
turned to the woman who lost it. His
honesty was rewarded by the gift of
two Dickels and two pennies.
Natural gas has been found on the
outskirts of Enid. Ok.
The price of lumber at Minneapo-
| lis, Mimi, is down from 81 to SO .
thousand feet.
The senate committee investigating
the Brownsville shooting ARRAY had
previous to June 80, 1907, spent $780,
900.
NJ. De Tross. the Belgian premier
and minister of the interior. is criti-
cally i'll at Brussels.
AT the last cabinet meeting in 1907
1t was decided to appeal from the de-
cision of Judge Lewis of Denver by
which all the indictments against
coal land grafters in Colorado were
quashed.
Citizens of Franklin, Pa, have
brought suit for damages against the
company which supplies water to the
city charging that recent typhoid
epidemic was caused by the impure
water supplied.
The annual tournament of roses
was held at Pasadena Cal, on New
Years day. Seventy thousand per-
sons witnessed the beautiful floral pa
rade in which Miss May Sutton, the
international tennis champion, was
the queen.
Three members of the city fire de-
partment of Vancouver, B. c., were
attacked and badly wounded by a
crowd of Japanese armed with knives.
The firemen had accidentally broken
the glass in front of Japanese
store
A passenger train on the Grand
Trunk railway rolled down an en-
bankment near Barrie, Ont, and was
entirely consumed by fire which
caught from an overturned stove.
Fifteen passengere were injured.
Twenty-three hundred barrels of
beer valued at $4,000, which the
state authorities would not permit
sold, was poured into the sewers at
an Oklahoma City brewery.
Judge Lewis of Denver has quashed
all the indictments secured by the
government in the coal land fraud
cases. holding it not criminal to agree
in advance of entry to sell coal land
| thus acquired to others.
! Seismological instruments at Wash
| ington and elsewhere recorded vio
lent earthquake of one hours duration
the exact location of which is not
known, but which was probably as
violent as the Kingston disaster.
Robbers blew open the safe in the
| postoflice at Solomon, Kan, with dy-
Mantle and escaped with S400 in cash
The legislature of Nevada will as
semb1y in special session January IA
upon call of the governor to take ac-
ton toward adjusting the differences
that exist between miners and mine
owners at Goldfeld.
AS n result of the contentious in
the famous Druce case in England, the
court ordered the casket in which
Thomas Charles Druce was buried
opened as one faction testified that
no body was in the casket at the time
of burial 43 years ago. When opened
it was found to contain the remains
of an aged man.
Announcement comes from Wash
| ington that within 80 days suit will be
filed in the federal court at Omaha
to dissolve the merger between the
Union and Southern Pacific railroads.
In 1907 the New York Coffee ex-
change sold 1866, $50 bags of coffee
as against 1S.112O0O bags in 1906.
The vault of the state bank at Nc
Curtain, Ok, was recently blown open
by robbers who succeeded in getting