The Springfield herald., 1909-03-05

Charles II. Treat, treasurer of the
United States, favors a direct proper
tional tax on incomes. He also favors
an Inheritance taA.
Arizona has just passed new cleo
tion law, requiring an educational quail
ification. To be allowed to vote in that
territory, hereafter, man must know
how to read and write.
The Servian government has given
orders that until further notice no
passports are to be issued to men un-
der forty-five years of age. The OBJ
ject of this measure is TO keep all men
CT military age at home.
The county commissioners Of Mesa
county have awarded the contract for
the building of a bridge across the
Grand river at Vineland to the NJ. ].
Patterson Contracting Company of
Denver. 1t will cost nearly $4,000.
Near Guayaquil, Ecuador, February
24th, passenger train was thrown
over a cliff 100 feet high at a point
near Rio Bamba and crashed to the
bottom of the ravine. Twenty-Five
persons were killed and forty injured.
James A. Leroy. secretary for Presi-
dent-elect Taft while governor of the
Philippines, and American consul at
Durango. Mexico, from August, 1908.
to March, 1907, died February 2Sth at
the military hospital at Fort Bayaud,
N. M.
Rev. Nathaniel S. Thomas, rector
of the Church of the Holy Apostles
at Philadelphia, has decided to accept
the bshopric of Wyoming which was
proffered him by the house of bish-
ops. 1t will be fully month before
he will be consecrated.
Jules Cambon, French ambassador
to Germany, has conferred upon Herr
Won Schoan, the German foreign min
lister, the grand cross of the Legion of
Honor as an indication of frances sat
isfaction over the FrancoGerman
agreement on Morocco.
Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood, command
ing the Department of the East, has
issued general order to the officers
in the department. commanding them
to impress upon the enlisted men the
deadly effects that follow the drinking
of wood or denatured alcohol
At Pau France, on the 25th ult.,
Orville Wright made his first ascen-
sion since the accident at Fort Meyer,
In which he was severely injured. Ac-
companied by his sister, he was pas
senger in the balloon Icarus, which
was piloted by Marquis de Kergariou.
A ruling of Judge Anderson in the
Standard Oil rebate case IN Chicago
is interpreted as cutting down the pos
sible fine from 500 9,240 900 to $720,O00.
1t makes each of the thirty-six settle.
ments separate offense instead of
each of the LACE car lots.
Judge Gary of the United States
Steel Corporation has again issued Il
denial of the persistent rumors that
cut in the wages of the corporations
100000 employees on or about April 1st
had been decided upon. The proposi-
ton has not even been considered, he
daclared.
About one fourth of the men who
have entered Yale University failed to
graduate. This is shown by the rec
ords for a non-graduate catalogue
which has been in preparation for sew
eral years and which is to soon be pub
lished. The catalogue will contain
about 1900 names with the residence
and occupation of graduates.
Frenchmen are considerably excited
over the action of the son of Ger
man banker in buying a large tract of
land in France. Three senators have
brought before the state the outlines
of bill forbidding henceforth the sale
of any part of French territory to for
eigners without the express authorize
ton of the government.
The English suffrasettas, who ere
atad disturbance while trying to
reach Premier Asquith with peti-
ton, have been sentenced to impris-
onment, most of the terms being for
one month. Sentences were imposed
on twenty-eight women, many OF
them prominent society leaders. They
went proudly and cheerfully to jail.
NEWS FROM WASHINGTON,