The Glenwood post., 1904-11-12
CONDENSED TELEGRAhS

""AsNS trust mas declared war
on the independent distilleries at Peo-
ria, Illinois. and began by cutting the
price materially.
Paul de Cassagnac, the prominent
Bonapartist deputy and journalist, and
once the most notorious duellist in
France died suddenly at Paris on the
4th inst
The secretary of state has received
word from the Mexican government of
its willingness and readiness to enter
into a treaty of arbitration with this
| government
James Marr. who died at Lincoln, Ne
brasha, on the 7th inst at the age of
eighty-four years. is said to have made
the Original design of the first harvest
ing machine.
Secretary Morton has instructed
Rear Admiral Barker that each vessel
under his command form ships rife
team OF twelve men for all vessels hay
ing a complement of 250 men.
Henry Lodging right guard for the
high school football team at Green.
vile, Michigan, was killed by concus-
sicn OF the brain in a match game
with another school on the 9TH inst.
Two ltunesses, two monkeys, two os-
triches and zebra, which were pre-
sentad by King Menelik of Abyssinia
to the President of the United States,
arrived at New York few days ago
| from Lcadon. One lionoss died during
the voyage
A th.rtaenyear-old Polish boy has
been sentenced TO three months i'm
| prisonmgut Tor lese majestic at Lissa.
/ province Of POsen. While at school.
in conversation with ether boys, he is
/ alleged to have condemned the neu-
trallty ul Germany in the Far Eastern
! war.
After spirited debate the Vermont
| House OF Representatives, by close
/ vote OF 80 to 81. has refused third
reaiinE to the bill granting municipal
/ suhrasc to women who are taxpayers.
/ The judiciary committee had reported
! favcrally but the measure went the
way OF all similar bills introduced for
many years.
A hundred persons Were drowned on
| the night Of November 3rd. by the
sinking Of the French steamer Gironde.
after having been in collision with the
| French steamer A. Schiaflino near
| Her5illon, twenty-three miles from
| Bona, Algeria. The Gironde left Bona
! with 14O passengers, of whom 100 were
| Algerian natives.
| The Official trial of the armored
/ cruiser West Virginia took place on
the Cape Ann course near Boston No
| Vember Ind. The new vessel deVel-
| oped an average speed of 2214 knots
| per hour. The contract with the
| United States government called for
sustained average speed for four hours
/ of % knots per hour.
/ The estimates of the War Depart
ment for the fiscal year ending June
! 30, 1906. aggregate $l03.6s6,7SO This
/ is $z2,242, ,6l2 less than the War Dc
partment estimates submitted year
ago and $3.S32. 1888 less than the total
appropriations made for the use of the
war Department for the current fiscal
year ending June 30, 1905.
For $1,000 the United States Battle
/ ship Maine Salvage Company of Wash
ington City has bought from the Cuban
. government the wreck of the Maine in
. Havana harbor. A Golfer dam will be
/ built around the hulk. which will be
/ raised. 1t is planned to put new
| bottom on the ship and tow it to Coney
| Island to be placed on exhibition.
| The new Northern Pacific steel
bridge over the Pend d'Oreille river at
Sand Point. Idaho has been completed
and turned over by the construction
| department to the traffic department.
| The estimated cost of the new bridge
! is Sl,O0O,000. In its construction $500
tons Of steel were used. The bridge is
the longest on the line of the Northern
| Pacific.
George C. Munger OF Syracuse, New
York, has been appointed receiver for
the Royal Templars OF Temperance.
Supreme Council. The directors have
advised the members that arrange
ments have been made to insure them
at the same rate they have been pay
ing, less all emergency assessments.
| The liabilities OF the order are placed
at s265,000 and the assets at about
s52 600.
Acting Secretary Murray of the De-
paTtment of Commerce and Labor has
made the estimate of appropriations for
the department for the fiscal year be-
ginning July l, 1905. The estimates ag-
gregate S14,339,5 ,529, being $594,525 less
than the estimates for the fiscal year
beginning July /, 1904. The estimates
for the fiscal year of 1906 exceed the
| appropriations for the current year by
$4,21S,444
According to information from the
Island of Perrin, at the entrance Of the
Red sea, an investigation OF Massira
Island made by the Sultan of Muscat
shows that the captain and boats
crew of twenty-one men. which left the
British steamer Balon. which ran
ashore at the Kura Musa islands,
reached Masia island and were massa-
cred by the natives. None of the mur-
derers have been arrested.
Although the Uintah Indian reserva-
tion in northeastern Utah is not to be
thrown open for settlement until next
March, already prospective settlers are
beginning to camp on the boundaries
Of the reservation, and trouble with
'sooners" is anticipated before the
date of opening. 1t is estimated that
at Ashley and Vernal GOO men are
waiting for the opening. The reserva-
ton includes some of the richest farm
In n aft la,, . !