Semi-weekly herald., 1909-05-03
1ELEeaApAlc eRsvIrlss.

TELEoRAPHic sREViTIEs.
Forty-six persons lost their lives
during recent earthquake in various
parts of Portugal.
William T. Curtis gives statistics
showing that colored graduates oil
higher institutions Of learning In the
south become useful citizens.
Fifty commandments leave St Johns
chapel, New York, during the service
as protest against the removal OF
the rector by the Trinity church yes
try.
Prominent Chicago Jews favor Sen
ator Guggenheim plan for chasing
Jews according 10 nations from which
they come. not as an independent ma
ton.
Announcement of E. II. Hartman 8
billion dollar rail merger plan is cred
tied in New York, and is regarded
there as an effort to sound Washing
ton on the governments attitude
Deputy Sheriff Mark Huffman was
killed and Constable Alex Cargill Sc
riously shot while raidng a negro crap
game at Marshall. Tex The negroes
escaped but a posse OF citizens is
securing the country Tor them.
An amount estimated at S50O,000 in
back taxes and penalties on stock in
the international Harvester company
is to be paid under judgment entered
In compromise OF the suit OF the Hi
nols Tax Reform association against
holders of the stock and the board
of review.
Lola Weseolt Of Pongateague, Va
had rib broken in a goodnight hug
Elwood Scott, q giant admirer' ~
years of age, played the havoc. Scot
also broke the crystal of his watch
A physician mended the broken rit
and Lola is doing well. Scott refuses
to discuss the situation.
Hurting through the air for 42i
feet. Thomas Mortimer. an iron-work
er, fell from a scaffolding outside the
thirty-fourth story OF the tower of the
new metropolitan Life building Mon
day and landed, a shapeless mass o
flesh and broken bones, in the mids
of throng of pedestrians ON the pave
ment in Madison Square. The fal
was viewed by hundreds.
Fifteen thousand dollars from thre'
men was raised at Goldlield, New.
within just ten minutes. toward !
purse for the Jeffries-Johnson fight
10 be held duging the mining congress
there next September. The total will
be swelled to $4,000 before the en-,
of the week. due to the activity of tn,
Olympic club, under whose auspice
the fight will be pulled off If 1t goe
there, The offer Will be In the shap'
of certified check in the bank. Gold
field is determined to get the fight
The rise of bar silver to "a lSd pc
ounce on the London market bring
the metal near TO the high point o
"a 5-16d of Jan. 16. This advance /
S-16d higher than the quotation o
Monday and is within I'D of the aver
age for the year 1908. The cause o
the latest improvement in silver is at
tributed TO Chinese demand, Recoy
cry of exports has reached the dimer
sions of creating a rapidly enlarginl
credit with outside nations, and this 1
being settled through silver shipment
from London. Next to the demand b,
India. the Chinese requirements STAN
first in the order of Importance. II
the middle of April this year Londoi
shipped to the eastern countries an,
to the Straits $11,207, 900 silver, o
which somewhat less than half, or So
$4,000, was for Indian account, ant
SA,916,000 for China, the rest beinl
for the Straits. For the correspond
ing period last year China's takingi
were comparatively light, being onl,
$2,532 900, and for the entire yea
1908. only sS.7O7 900 China has taker
already this year the largest quaint
ty of silver from London by any full
year since 1900, when the total ex
ported from London to China was s13,
349,42O.