The Springfield herald., 1909-08-27

Princeton university is given $780,
900 by the will of Cornelius C. Cuyler.
the New York banker, who was killed
recently in an automobile accident in
France.
The London Daily Graphic asserts
that Orville Wright. the American
aeroplanist. has been engaged to make
demonstrations with his machine In
England two months hence under the
auspices Of the British government.
According to advices received at
Rome from Tehteran, the recent at
tempt of the young shah to commit
suicide was really an attempt to as
sassinate the boy of his father, the de-
posed shah, who struck the boy with
poniard.
Attorney General McCarn OF Tenn
essee personally offers to pay $50 re-
ward for the first proof brought to him
OF violation of the prohibition law
by white man on or after August
IA and before the opening of the Grim
inal Court on the first Monday in Sept.
ember.
General Booth of the Salvation army
is suffering from septic poison of the
eye, a condition that has necessitated
the abandonment of his religious cru
sade in the provinces and his return
to London. He has also postponed his
proposed American and Canadian tour,
set for this fall.
Miss Kate NJ Gordon of New Or
leans. chairman of the Susan B. An
thony fund. wants to raise million
dollars for the cause of woman suf-
frage. Her plan is to get 100 women
to give $1,000 each and 1000 women
to give S100 each to this memorial
fund to Miss Anthony.
d. G. c. MacNeill, British consul in
Colima, is authority for the statement
that engineers of S. Pearson & Son,
Limited, have prepared plans for ex.
tensive harbor improvements at Ma
zatlan, Mexico, and that the English
urn will do the work. 1t is stated that
the plans contemplate expenditure OF
about $30,000.000 Mexican currency.
George Cabot Lodge, son of Sena.
tor Henry Cabot Lodge and private
secretary to his father. died suddenly
at Tuckerneck Island. Mass, from
heart failure, superinducod by an
acute attack of Indigestion. Mr..
Lodge was 80 years old and gradu
ate of Harvard. A widow and three
children survive him.
Twenty casks and nine cases con-
tanning specimens, trophies of the
hunt, collected by the Roosevelt expe-
dition, in South Africa, were brought
to New York on the 18th inst, on the
steamer Provincial, from Marseilles,
The specimens, representing twenty
different kinds of animals, will be for
warded to the Smithsonian institute at
Washington.
The Memorandum signed at Muk-
den, Manchuria, August 10, by repre-
sentatives of the Japanese and Chi
nese governments practically closes
the Antung-Mukden controversy. Ac-
cording to the terms of the under
standing China agrees to afford Japan
every assistance in the reconstruc-
ton of the Antung-Mukden railroad
and withdraws all her objections.
A military automobile with Malcom
Il. Parrot of the national guard of
New York at the wheel. left New York
for San Francisco on the goth inst.
bearing dispatches for Major General
Weston commanding the department
of the West. The trip will cover 3,693
miles. On its success, it is said will
largely depend the establishment of a
regular automobile service for the
army.
James NJ Smith. millionaire plant
er, former state senator and once can.
didate Tor governor of Georgiais ac-
cused of employing agents to kidnap
negroes. who are sent to his planta-
ton in Oglethorpe county and there
held in peonage. The charges against
Colonel Smith developed at the trial
of Sim Rousse, negro, who was &C.
cused Of kidnapping. Witnesses swore
Rousse was one of Smiths pres gang
and he was held under heavy bonds.