The Springfield herald., 1909-08-13

The National Association OF Dentu
Examiners in session at Newport
News, Va, closed its session on the
I'd inst. after voting to meet in Den
yer next year.
The operatives in the cotton mills
at North Grosvenordale. Conn. mum.
bering thousand. are to receive an
increase in wages about August 18TH.
The increase, 1t Is understood, will av-
erage about ten per cent.
At Port Aviation, near Juvisy,
France, August 1st, M. Peliot Gaudart
in Voisin bi-plane rose to height
Of 500 feet. beating the record estab
lished by Wilbur Wright and winning
the Lazare Weller prize.
An official report on the damage by
the great fire at Osaki, Japan. places
the number OF buildings destroyed at
ll.3GS, including eleven office build
ings. eight schools. four banks. ten
business blocks and twenty temples.
The newly established diamond mo
nopoly of the imperial government in
Southwest Africa explains the recent
rise In the price of diamonds by the
statement that the Sudden prosperity
in America makes Americans willing
to pay more"
By the will of Mrs. Mary F. Snow OF
Hartford, Conn, Miss Phila c. Miller
a spinster at Orange. Mass. will re-
ceive the income from $4,000 for tax
ing care OF Mrs. Shows two small i'm
ported dogs. The deceased left her
husband only $4,000.
An apple crop in the United States
slightly in excess of that of year
ago, and so per cent. larger in Canada,
is the estimate made by Secretary
Rothwell before the International Ap
pie Shippers Association at Buffalo
The quality Of the crop is rated poor
to good.
Charging that the city magistrates
courts of Manhattan are breeding
places for anarchy and that the admin
istration OF justice there is grossly in
competent and inadequate. the New
York committee of 100 announces that
it will make these conditions an issue
in the next political campaign.
Both houses of the Connecticut Leg
islature have passed bill repeating
the so-called BLUE laws" relating to
Sunday observance, which forbid al
most every form of recreation and SEQ
ular activity. The laws are relics OF
enactments by the law-giving body Of
1922.
Prince Hermann of Saxe-Weimar.
Eisanach. the heir presumptive to the
grand duchy of Weimar. has re-
nounced the succession Of himself OF
his heirs, II any. to the throne of the
grand duchy or its property. This 40
ton is in consequence of the princes
extravaganza.
Judge Watts Parker in the Circuit
Court at Lexington. KY, has declared
1907 null and void on the ground OF
fraud and corrupt methods. The eff.
feet of the decision is to oust Mayor
Skain and three other officials, all
Democrats. from office.
There has been a renewal OF piracy
in south China and tragic affairs are
reported, seven persons being roasted
to death by pirates near Shuntak, after
the capture of castle-like house
owned by one of the local gentry. Al
though the Chinese garrison was but
800 yards away, no troops came to as
sist the besieged household. or to sue.
cor them when the pirates burned
them alive.
Nearly twenty transatlantic steam.
ships, which have been bending their
utmost efforts in response to orders
sent by wireless to reach New York
before the new tariff law went into
effect. lost the race at 4:30 p. m. on
the 5th inst, when the custom house
closed and the last payment of duty
under the old law was registered. I'm.
porters will be losers to the extent OF
between 100000 and 100000.