The Glenwood post., 1904-12-24
CONDENSED TELEGRAnS


December 10th.
Five textile unions at Fall River
Massachusetts, have voted to submit
labor troubles involved in the long
pending strike to arbitration.
The next annual convention of the
National Association of State Dairy
and Food Departments will be held at
Portland Oregon, June POPS.
William l.. Elkins, the Pennsylvania
street railway and gas operator and
financier, who died in November, 1908,
left an estate worth $31 ,57S,000.
Rev. Luther H. Trowbridge of De.
troit, for thirty years editor and pro.
prietor of the Christian Herald of that
city, died in Los Angeles December
18th.
The London board OF trade inquiry
into the damages done by the Russian
feet to British fishing boats is said to
show that the claims will aggregate
100000.
The Nova Reforma of Lemberg,
Austria, says a steady stream of Rus
sian deserters continues to arrive
there, most of whom are going to
America.
Chief Censor Zbereff of Moscow has
issued warning to the editors of the
local papers to insert nothing in their
papers in connection with the doings
of zemstovs and town councils.
Colonel Stephen Allen Bassford, who
commanded the Ninety-fourth Ohio
volunteer infantry in the Civil WAR,
died at New York City December Goth.
He entered tho rTpy a nriyata
President Roosevelt has accepted an
invitation to attend the Lincoln Day
dinner to be given by the Republican
club Of New York, February 13. The
President will deliver an address.
Wireless telegraph messages were
sent on the 18th inst. from Kansas
City to Cleveland, Ohio, 725 miles,
without relay. This is said to be the
longest distance overland ever cov-
cred.
lone robber held up the bank of
Chisholm, Minnesota, during business
hours, secured $4,000 and escaped. He
forced Cashier Greiser into the vault
al the point of a revolver and locked
the door.
Nine. Adelina Patti recently gave a
concert for the benefit of the Red
Cross society under the auspices of
Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna. The
concert was brilliant success, net
ting over $4,000.
A new bank with 100000 paid-up
capital, furnished by Boston, Los
Angeles and Indianapolis capitalists.
has been organized in the City of
Mexico. to be called the Mexican
Banking Company, limited.
Eight persons were killed and five
badly injured at Minneapolis, Decem-
Der goth, by the falling of a side wall
Of the recently burned o. H. Peck
building, which toppled over and
struck the Crocker hotel adjoining.
The Steel Bar Association, at a
meeting in Jersey City December goth
advanced the price of steel bars 50 a
ton. The steel plate manufacturers
held meeting there also and voted to
advance the price of steel plates 50 a
ton.
Between Liberty and the Verdigris
river. more than a mile of the par
TALLY completed pipe line of the Kan
up with dynamite by masked men
Is
ber 18th.
Two more banks closed December
Goth on account Of runs precipitated by
uneasiness occasioned by the Chad.
wick exposures, though neither had
any Of the Chadwick paper. They are
the First National bank Of Conneaut
and the Marine bank Of Conneaut Har
bor, Ohio.
Pope Plus X is reported to be suffer
ing from gout and is somewhat lame
Mrs Mary Andrews Clark. mother
of Senator William A. Clark and OF
]. Ross Clark, died at Los Angeles
December 18th, after an Illness Of but
three days. Mrs. Clark was nearly 92
years Of age.
The Court Of Appeals has confirmed
the judgment of the lower court ia.
vorably to "Tod" Sloan, the Ameri,
can Jockey, and against the pockey
club. Sloan sued the Jockey club
for 100000 damages for being warned
of the turf in connection with Rose
de Mais winning the priX de Diane at
the Chantilly races in May, 1902.
Depositors IN two of the largest
savings banks in New York-the
bOWeTy anu lhe SlteuWlCll, nave pteu
notified of an increase in the interest
rate which is raised from three and
one-half per cent. to four per cent. A
similar advance will. it is stated, be
made shortly by other institutions.
The savings deposits in the two banks
aggregate $132,000,000.
Gifts amounting to $437 ,37O were an
nounced by President Harper at the
fifty-third quarterly convocation of the
University of Chicago December goth
John D. Rockefeller gave $245,000 foI
current expenses and 100000 for i'm
provements to the heating plant. The
next largest sum was given by Mrs
Hiram G. Kelly of Chicago, who gave
$4,000 for the erection of a building
for classics.
Fifteen hundred children of all
ages were aroused from sleep by an
alarm of fire in the Hebrew Orphan
asylum in Amsterdam avenue in New
York City before daylight. and
marched in safety from the building
They performed their fire drill pre-
cisely as they had been trained. The