The Springfield herald., 1909-01-08

a lclleT III WHICH ne strongly COuueluus
the proposed amendment to the Con
stitution of Maryland, that has for Its
object the disfranchisement of negroes.
st. Petersburg still continues to suf-
fer from the Asiatic cholera. There
were eighteen new cases and five
deaths from the disease Monday. This
has been the daily average for the last
month.
Robert Fowler, formerly OF the Cam
bridge Athletic club OF Boston. but now
unattached, won the Yonkers Mara
thon race on New Years day in two
hours, fifty-two minutes and forty-five
and two-fifth seconds.
Tom Longboat, the Indian long dis
tance runner. was married to Miss Lo-
zetta Miracle at Toronto December
2Sth. Tom Flanagan. the Indian man
ager, was best man. The bride was
given away by her brother. an Indian
chief.
Just before making flight at Ia
mans. France, Wilbur Wright, tie
American aeroplanist, discovered that
some one had filled the oil box of his
aeroplaIe with gasoline. The discov-
cry probably prevented serious acci-
dent.
Railroad construction in the United
States in 1908 aggregated only 3.214
miles of new main track, the lowest to-
tai for any year since 1897, when only
2.109 miles of track were laid. and a
decrease Of 1898 miles, or 1873 per
cent. from the figures of 1907.
Or advice of his counsel. Samuel
Gompers has discontinued his I'VE
Don't Patronize" list In the Fedora
tionalist, the labor organ. This was
followed by the suspension of its un-
fair list by the Central Federated
Union.
The Hague foreign office has made
the statement that the trouble between
Venezuela and Holland is regarded as
Professionally at an end and that The
Netherlands intends to hold its hand
pending the progress of the new Co.
mez administration.
As holiday diversion December 26th
the President-elect made an excursion
to Aiken, S. c., and played golf on the
famous Palmetto links. Mr.. Taft was
accompanied by Mrs. Taft and the
three children and John Hays Ham
mond, his wife and children.
Germany is not able to supply Its
home demand for eggs, according to
Consul General Richard Guenther OF
Frankfort. who reports that last year
sS4,64300O worth of eggs were I'M
ported, this representing about 3,00O.-
100000, or an average of 46 per capita.
The long war with the Yaquis In
dians in Mexico in which scores were
killed at different times, including
many Americans, has been terminated
/ ma treaty of peace, agreed upon by
three Indian chiefs and 166 OF their
of Sonora. Mexico.
The Steel corporation has Issued a
Christmas bonus to all employees hold
ing stock in the company. 1t is esti.
mated that sixty-five per cent. in num-
ber OF the holdings are in the hands
OF til, workmen. The net earnings are
expected to run between $25.000,000
and $26,000,O00 for the quarter.
Senator Benjamin B. Tillman, in an
address before the State Teachers AS
sociation at Columbus, S. c., took occa-
sion to warn the people against the agi-
tation for compulsory education, assert
ing that should such law be passed
1t would mean the education Of the ne
gro, which would in the end mean a
blow to white supremacy.
Wilbur Wright made another long
OF 7 70
30th, remaining in the air for one hour,
fifty-two minutes and forty seconds
and covering distance of sixty miles,
He was obliged to stop on account Of
the intense cold. Both himself and his
machine were covered with ice and the
oil in the motor was frozen.
Yekaterinoslav, Russia, hasn't any
harder name than it deserves. At that
town on New Years day the military
court pronounced forty-one death SEN
tences, nine for recent crimes. Thir-
ty-two of the condemned men were
strikers in the railroad troubles of Oc-
tober, 1905. In addition to the death
sentences, twelve strikers were con.
demned to penal servitude for life and
forty-eight to lesser terms of exile.
The architects for the Geo. w. Clay
ton School for Boys in Denver have
taken out building permits which In
clude two-story and basement admin
istration building to cost $4,000; q
two-story and basement dorm!tories to
cost 100000 each; two-story and base
ment dormitories to cost $4,000 each,
and one-story stone power house to
cost $4,000. Work has already begun
and the foundations are partly up.
NEWS FROM WASHINGTON.