The Glenwood post., 1905-04-01
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS

600 for library at Pomona College. |
California.
James Frazer has been elected to
the United States Senate by the Leg |
islature OF Tennessee.
DR.. ]. B. Whiting, surgeon general OF
the Grand Army of the Republic, died |
at Janesville, Wisconsin. March 27th.
The Chicago Bureau of Idcntifica-
tion has adopted the thumb print
method of identifying criminals as an
adjunct to the Bertillion measurement
system.
The Illinois Appellate Court affirmed
a ruling of a lower court upholding the
validity of an ordinance of the city OF
Chicago prohibiting the giving away
Of cigarette papers with tobacco.
benefit at the Metropolitan Opera
house, New York, for Joseph Holland,
the actor, who, on account of illness,
probably will never be able to appear
on the stage again, netted 5000.
Miss Mildred Lee, youngest daugh-
ter of Gen. Robert e. Lee; died at New
Orleans March 27th at the residence
of Mrs. William Preston Johnson,
while on a visit. Her death was due to
apopleXy.
The adjutant general of Texas
shipped a carload of tents, iron bed
steads and other camping outfit TO Burl,
| Texas, near San Antonio, to be used by
President Roosevelt and party on their
big hunt
Many thousands of ordinary letters,
| all of the Second-class mail matter and
all of the registered mail matter was
destroyed by fire and water in the
Great Northern train wreck in Idaho
March 24th.
A great landslide occurred at Sem
lin, Hungary, March 2Gth. A squadron
of soldiers, who went to the rescue of
a buried woman, suffered severely
eight of their number being killed and
nineteen injured.
The Fore River Shipbuilding Com
pany of Quincy. Massachusetts, has
signed n contract to construct in eight
cen months four submarine torpedo
boats of the Holland type for the
United States government.
Governor General Wright has issued
proclamation announcing that the
census of the Philippine islands had
been completed, and that in TWO years,
provided peace prevails. an election
would be called for general assembly.
In the United States Court at Phila-
delphia a receiver has been appointed
for the Provident Investment Com
pany. which made an assignment
March 21st, with estimated liabilities
of $1,000, 600 and practically no assets.
Governor Koch of Kansas intends
to have the battlcship Kansas, which
will be launched next July, christened
by breaking bottle of Kansas crude
oil over the prov, thus casting oil on
the troubled waters Of prohibition pro
test
The Vatican has been informed that
the Russian government has communt
Gated to the Roman Catholic bishops
in that country that 1t will require
three months in which to consider
their memorial concerning liberty o
religion.
l The jury in the second trial O
: Henry Lundberg. former assistant in
: spector of steamboat hulls, charged
} with criminal neglect of duty leading
to manslaughter in the General Slo
cum disaster, failed to agree and were
l dismissed.
A son has been. born TO Mrs. laI
, Malcolm, wife Of well-known mem
: Der of Parliament from Scotland ant
, daughter of Mrs. Lily Langtry. 1t il
: said that Mrs. Langtry and her daugh
= ter have been estranged since the lat
, ter's marriage.
While working over a washtub Mrs
Anne Ellsworth Werner. wife of
Cincinnati contractor, dropped deaf
from heart trouble and in preparing
!. the body for burial $4,000 in bonds anC
: $151 in cash We're found in the bustlt
, | She wore at the time
, Senior Don Manuel De Azpiroz Mex
ico's first ambassador to the UnitcC
States, died at Washington March oath
. Senor De Azpiroz suffered from gas
tritis, which was aggravated by eX
, pOsure on Inauguration day. He wa'
: siXty-nine years of age.
5 The Manchester ship canal after
f long period of discouragement, is a
Y length beginning to see prosperou!
, days. Its traffic increases largely eact
D year and earnings suffice to meet fiXet
| charges and leave surplus for repay
ment to the city of Manchester.
J, The spring rush of immigration ha'
= almost swamped the government ON
cials at Ellis island Reports received
, from abroad indicate that the rusl
! will continue to increase in April anC
May, and it is feared that Ellis islant
will be taxed beyond its capacity.
The splendid New York mansion
built by Governor Tilden in Twentieth
!. | street, overlooking Gramercy park, il
: soon to become the home of the Ma
1 tional Arts Club. The house is per
l fectly adapted to the use of the 1,30I
r artists holding membership in the club
Hospital ships for habitual drunk
ards, to be anchored in a safely iso
=, lated part of the harbor, is the schem'
proposed by DR.. c. l.. Mix. expert il
, the treatment of alcoholic patients, il
, a lecture before the social science
: class in the Fine Arts building at Chi
cago.
e A gift of s25O.OOO has been made t.
S Northwestern University by Milton II
r Wilson, resident of Evanston and ont
t Of the trustees OF the institution.