The Springfield herald., 1910-02-04

Tom Longboat, the lnuian runner.
beat Percy Smallwood. the Welshman,
in a. 12-mle indoor running race at
Pttsburg by four minutes. Longboat's
time was one hour. eight minutes and
thirty-seven seconds.
A large meteorite fell in the garden
OF Joseph Cable at Broad River, Conn,
on the afternoon OF January 25th. 1t
burned to dust after making hole
foot in diameter and several feet
deep.
Uncle John" Ramsey, 119 years
old. thought to have been the oldest
person in Ohio. died near Elyria, Jan
uary 9th. Ramsey was slave and
escaped forty years before the Civil
war, going to Oberlin.
Joseph Woods, an American engi
neer. has been discharged from the
penitentiary at Monterey, Mex, where
he had been confined for three months
without trial on a charge growing out
OF the disposition of the estate Of
Marco Chuchovich. brother of Vase
Chuchovich of Denver.
According to the decision in two
cases before Mayor Shank at Indian
apolis, saloonkeepers in that city whd
violate the closing laws will hereafter
be compelled to keep their saloons
closed until they can produce letter
from a minister certifying that they
have attended church Sunday morning
and remained throughout the service.
A friend of DIR. Frederick A. Cook
in New York has received letter
from Berlin stating that DIR. Cook is in
Belgium trying to organize an expedi-
tion to go to Greenland to recover the
instruments and polar records which
Harry Whitney of New. Haven. Conn,
left in cache at Etah. and to search
for the two Eskimos who accompanied
him on his polar trip.
In a "war to the death" between
the "Teddies" and the "Gorillas," two
rival gangs Of the upper East Side In
New York, S-year-old Joseph Yeager.
gorilla" was tied to a lamp post.
gagged, his pockets stuffed with ex-
celsor and set afire. The "Teddies"
fled after dropping lighted matches in
his pockets. He owes his life to pass
ers-by. who smothered the flames.
Rear Admiral Nehemiah Mayo Dwy-
er died at his home in Melrose, Mass,
January 9th. at the age of seventy
one years. He was rapidly promoted
for his meritorious conduct during the
Civil war in the gulf campaign and in
the Spanish-American war was second
only to Admiral Dewey in eminent SER
vice at the battle of Manila bay, for
which he vas advanced seven numbers
in rank.
Baron Komura, minister for foreign
affairs. in addressing the Japanese
diet on relations with other nations,
announced that Japan had declined to
entertain the American proposition
for the naturalization of the Manchu-
rian railways. He said that while the
proposal was not practical the refusal
of Japan to accept 1t did not mean
unfriendliness toward the government
and people with whom it originated
The Indictment against the Press
Publishing Company. publishers of the
New York World. charging Joseph Pu-
liter and others with criminal libel
against Theodore Roosevelt, has been
QuaShed in the United states Dlstrict
Court at New York, Judge Hough
ruled that the statute upon which the
indictment rested was not sufficient
in authority. or in other words, that
the court had no jurisdiction.
MANY of the leading experts in
aerial navigation believe that the
United States is wasting money in
enlarging the navy" said Cortland F.
Bishop, president of the Aero Club of
America, at Denver. with perfected
dirigibles and aeroplanes, the biggest
ships can be destroyed easily. Swift
progress is being made in perfecting
both the dirigible and the aeroplanes
and the chances are that the Dread
noughts will be worse than useless in
n few years"