The Glenwood post., 1904-01-02
SHORT TELEGRAMS,

City. Missouri.
The new German cruiser Hamburg
attained speed of 20 1-3 knots on her
trial trip from Swinemunde to Kiel.
Prince Engaliticheff. Russian vice
consul to Chicago. has been appointed
Russian commissioner to the St. Louis
exposition.
Half dozen British army officers
will go to Japan to study the Japan
ese language and become acquainted
with japanese military tactics.
The 1904 convention of the Baptist
Young Peoples Union of America will
be held at Detroit. Michigan, probably
from July 9TH to 10th.
1t is reported that of the eighty or
more beet and cane sugar factories of
Spain, all except two or three have
just been merged in a sugar trust
United States Minister Beaupre left
the capital of Colombia December 10Th.
The Gar has sent his photograph
with his autograph affixed to William
]. Bryan.
A ST. Petersburg dispatch says that
about 1000 Jews at Kishineff are ask
ing for aid to emigrate to Argentina or
to Canada. They want tracts of land
to establish colonies.
Both houses of the Legislature of
Louisiana adopted a resolution from
that state to vote in favor of the rati-
tication of the treaty providing for the
building of the Panama canal.
The Chicago police department has
issued an order instructing all police
men in the shopping districts to wear
eal t~D otIa ,lyaJ
no mention of any other apparel
1t is announced in Belfast that twen-
ty-six battalions of volunteers will
shortly be raised in Ireland. Hitherto
the government has refused to extend
The volunteer movement to Ireland.
The wages of iron mill employees of
the Oliver Mining Company at Hough
ton, Michigan, which is the iron ore
end of the steel trust, will be reduced
from ten to seventeen per cent. on
January 1st.
A Pittsburg dispatch says: The idle
glass window workers of the country
will receive cash Christmas presents
from the organizations of which they
are members. Fully $4,000 will be
distributed. This money will come di-
rectly out of the treasures of the two
associations.
A Berlin dispatch says that the re-
port published by the Journal of Paris
that the Princess Charlotte of Sake
Meiningen, sister of Emperor William.
is suffering from cancer, and that the
verdict of the physicians has created
CONSERVATION in the German court, is
officially defined as nonsense" The
Princess is not even ILL.,
A real daughter of the Revolution
died at Matamoras, Pennsylvania, a
few days ago at the age of eighty-sev-
en- years. Her name was Mrs. Lucinda
Valentine and she was daughter of
Jaboz Rockwell, who was born October
81, 1861, and enlisted in the American
army when sixteen years old, serving
five years under General Washington.
Mrs. James B. Angel, wife of the
president Of the University Of Michi-
gan, died at Ann Arbor, Michigan, De
cember 18th. from pneumonia. Mrs.
Angel was the daughter of famous
college president, Alexis Caswell of
Brown university. She presided over
the American legion of Pekin, China.
while Mr.. Angel was United States
minister to that country.
DIR Duchateau testified before Com
missioner Eisler of New York. ap-
pointed to take testimony in the Fair
will case at Paris. His evidence was
on the same lines as that of Dr. Peril
Quet and favorable to the theory that
Mrs. Charles L.. Fair survived her hus-
band, who, with Mrs. Fair, was killed
in an automobile accident in August,
1902.
Much excitement has been caused at
Pottsville, Pennsylvania, by reports
from Auchries, Schuykill county. of the
discovery of beds of pure anthracite
coal far beyond the limits of what has
heretofore been considered the south
ern boundary Of the hard coal region
in Pennsylvania. Many farmers in the
district have begun to prospect for
veins.
The date of the visit of President
Loubet to the King of Italy has now
been definitely fixed, to take place in
the first part of April. The President
will remain about week in Italy, Wis
iting Rome, Venice. Naples and Flor
ence. Upon his return to France it is
then thought that he will start on a
visit to President Roosevelt and the
St. Louis exposition.
On December 21st the city of Ber-
lin was in twilight at midday and the
whole business Of the capital was car
ried on by artificial light. The meteo-
rological office has not noted such
phenomenon in a generation, and at
tributes 1t to the light, motionless at
mosphere in which the city's smoke
and vapors did not ascend. thus blan-
keting and darkening many square
miles.
At Berlin Miss Won Rheinbaben,
daughter of the finance minister, Bar
on Won Rheinbaben. had a narrow es-
cape from serious injury or death. She
fell between two electric cars, but an
English naval constructor, Henry Da-
wilson of Newcastle-on-Tyne, rushed
to her assistance. In pulling Miss
Rheinbaben out of danger he was
killed. Miss Won Rheinbaben was un-
Injured