The Glenwood post., 1904-08-27
CONDENSED TELEGRAhS


more than 200 injured by the great
Minnesota tornado of August 21st.
Dr. Edward j. james. president OF the
Northwestern University, has been
elected president of the University of
Illinois
The German Veterans Association of
North America, in annual convention
at st. Louis, elected Julius Frame OF
Dallas, Texas, president
The total internal revenue receipts
for July last We're 500 405 .0iS, as com
pared with $22 .lOS.362 for July. 1903,
a decrease of Sl,70S,3l3.
The Kansas City packing house strlk-
ers contend that the packing houses
cannot legally run boarding houses Tor
their employees inside of the plants.
A Brussels correspondent of the Lon
don Daily News says that three French
submarine boats of the Dauphin type
have been fol warded to Nladiyostok by
rail
The new peso coined by the govern
ment for use in the Philippine islands
is said TO be meeting with general ia
vor and rapidly displacing Spanish and
Mexican coins.
From the opening of the World.
Fair at St Louis, April 3lst, to Au-
gust 2lst 1855 SIS admissions We're re-
corded. The average is now over lOO,-
UOO a day.
With the names OF several of the
, most prominent men in Washington
among its trustees, a corr espondence
university has been Incorporated in
| Washington city.
| Miss Susan b. Anthony has returned
/ from Europe, where she attended the
congress Of women at Berlin. She
/ thinks the cause OF woman Suffrage IS
| gaining almost everywhere
Since the completion of the drainage
canal. which has now been in use Tor
| five years Chicago reports notable
! reduction in deaths flcm impure water
! diseases. The flow is 10000 cubic 1eet
minute.
At conference just closed between
| President Escalon of Salvador, Presi-
dent Zelaya OF Nicaragua, the three
presidents signed an agreement to
maintain peace in the Republics of Cen
ira America.
Hannah e. Van Wart Pessinger, a
granddaughter of Isaac Van Wart, one
Of the three patriots who captured
Major John Andre on the Tarrytown
road in 1880, died August 22d. at her
home in brooklyn. New York.
The government report Of the condi-
tion of the crops in Prussia on August
18th, using one as very good, two as
good. three as middling and four as
bad, is: Winter wheat, 81; summer
wheat. %; winter rye, 2.6; summer
rye, 3.3.
The property loss in the great St
Paul ard Minneapolis tornado of Au-
gust 10th is estimated at $3.50 600
divided as follows St. Paul park
S17SO,OOO; Minneapolis. 100000; Still
water. 100000; Waconia, $4,000;
country districts, 100000.
The completion of the Galveston set
wall was celebrated August 22d by run
ming excursions from different parts o1
the state OF Texas to Galveston. Gov
ernor Lanham was present and made
an eulogistic address, commenting or
the work which has been accomplished
A hurricane did great damage in the
northeast part OF South Dakota on the
night of August 2lst, three being
killed and thirty or more injured. Al
Willow Lakes, n small town in HamliI
county, every building was wrecked
good deal of damage was done a
Bryant Z
Mrs. Caroline Boles Ely, a well
known writer. died in New York Cit!
August 23d. She was seventy-nine year!
old and was the widow of Col. Geo. b
Ely, an attorney of Madison, Wisconsin
who organized n company and after
ward commanded @ regiment in the IA
nous Iron Brigade during the Civi
War
Owing to disagreement between
the designer. Nat Herresnoff OF Rhod'
Island. and representatives Of the Ger
man emperor over plans for neV
schooner yacht after the model of th
schooner yacht Ingomar, construction
has been delayed. 1t is believed th'
boat will be started in the fall or win
ter of 1905.
The rigor of the Russian divorc
laws, which formerly did not allow
husband or wife guilty of adultery Il
marry again except after seven year
irreproachable conduct. has been mod
fled by the hCly synod making the pc
rlod two years in case the offender
agree to Go public penance according
to the direction of their bishops
A tornado struck the township o
Rich Valley and Bergen in Minnesota
Saturday night August goth, killing
four persons, Mary O'Donnell, aged Il
daughter of Patrick O'Donnell, and tn
7-year-old son of Anthony O'Donnel
and Frederick Gross and his mother
and destroying thousands of acres o
grain and many barns, houses an
sheds.
Extensive violations of the custom
laws have been unearthed at San Fran
cisco by customs inspectors VIII
searched the UEited States naval trans
port Solace. which arrived from Man
ila. Guam and Honolulu. Forty-on
seizures were made, amounting i
value to several thousand dollars. in
cludinG cigars, silks. embroideries. de
corGted porcelain and Japanese curio!
The forces under Datto Ali, on til
leland pf MinlanaD have alODtpd pupr