The Glenwood post. (Glenwood Springs, Colo.) 1897-current, 1904-02-20
SHORT TELEGRAMS.

The Red Cross Society at Moscow is
besieged by women Offering their SER
vices as army nurses.
John Redmond has been reelected
chairman of the Irish parliamentary
party for the coming session.
The January statement of the Lon
don Board of Trade shows decreases of
$1,l63,5O0 in imports and $4.101. 500 in
exports.
Three thousand teachers in the Chi
cago public schools have been given an
increase of $50 a year by the board of
education.
Twelve officials and employees of Ok
lahoma City have been indicted by the
grand jury for larceny. bribery and
similar offenses.
The government OF Sweden and Nor
way has announced its intention to OBJ
serve strict neutrality during the war
between Russia and Japan
AT Ravia, l. T.. on the 9Th inst rob-
bers blew open the safe of the Bank
of Commerce and took s1.700 in money.
The interior of the building was de-
molished.
The gift of $4,000 by John Hays
Hammond of New York, the mining
engineer, for metallurgical laboratory
at Yale, has been increased by Mr..
Hammond to 100000.
Fire at Houston, Tex, on the Sth inst.
destroyed an entire block of buildings,
including the central fire station, two
livery stables, two business houses and
half a dozen residences.
The Socialist leaders and newspa
pers in Germany take an extreme an
ti-Russian position in their comments
on the war, affirming that every So
cialist in the world and every Liberal
must hope tina. autocracy will be de-
feated
Samuel Sung Young, the Chinese
student 'at the University of California,
has just been appointed a lieutenant in
the university cadet regiment. Should
he rise to major or higher, he will be
eligible for second lieutenantcy in the
United States army.
James Dunsmuir. the multi-million-
aire owner of the Esquimalt & Nanai-
mo railway has offered the line and its
land grant of nearly 100000 acres
to the British Columbia government
for $4,000, 900. The government is like
~ W dtCtpJ lut olltl IL olutI halfway
negotiations pending can be with
drawn.
The United States marine hospital
surgeon at Ell Paso has received official
notice from the Mexican officials that
all drawn work shipped from the inte-
rior is washed and fumigated before
1t is sent to the border. Smallpox is
said 20 Se prevalent at Aguas Calien-
ties. the chief drawn work manufacture
ing point.
Adolph Schwarzmann, one of the
founders and editors-in-chief of Puck,
died on the 4th inst. at New York of
pneumonia. He was born in Germany
in 1888, and came to this country after
learning the printers trade. With jos
seph .eppler he founded Puck in 1876
and had since been at the head of the
publication.
Seventeen members of the constabu-
larry gsrrisoned at Vigan. one of the
leading business centers of Luzon, re-
Gently deserted, taking with them fifty
rifles, 5000 rounds of ammunition and
$500 obtained by looting the commits
sary department. The number of fu
gitives was afterward augmented by
party of eighty escaping from the
same quarter
The new Servian cabinet is composed
as follows: Premier M. Druyes; minis
ter for foreign affairs, NJ. Pasyes; min
lister of finance, NJ. Pacui; minister of
the interior, M. Protics; minister
of education, NJ. Davidovics; minister
of war, General Punk; minister Of
agriculture. NJ. Radokanovics; minister
of public works, M. Peravelimirovics;
minister of justice. NJ. Easitics.
The Associated Press learns that
Lord Roberts has accepted the appoint
ment to the new office of inspector gen.
eral. He will hold the post probably
naught, whose command in Ireland will
be taken over by Lieut.. Grenfell, the
commander of the Fourth army corps
will succeed him.
Representatives of twenty steel
works have formed combination at
Cologne and decided to enter into COM
petition with the Krupp and Phoenix
works. and also with the Upper Silesian
works, which refused to enter the COM
bine. Unless the Upper Silesian con-
Germs give notice of their adhesion to
the combination, the existing iron I'M
Ions will be dissolved.
IN the United States Shipbuildng
Company's case at Newark, N. j.,
Judge Kirkpatrick on the 9th inst
signed orders, which were agreed TO
by counsel, that are expected to settle
the controversy. They are: That the
shipbuilding company be declared in
solvent; that permanent receiver be
appointed; that Charles M. Schwab be
made a party defendant, and that the
case be tried in open court.
An Ell Paso dispatch says that Mex
leo has issued a decree forbidding any
person bearing firearms to cross the
border to that country. and American
sportsmen who have been in the habit
of hunting game south of the boundary
have been seriously Inconvenience.
Those who have visited the duck lakes
recently have been compelled to pay
for the privilege, and those who re-
fused to pay have been fined.
The steamship Dakota of the Great
Northern Steamship Company was sue
f,,1I, . ..pt