The Glenwood post., 1905-02-25
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS

mines.
Andrew Carnegie has given Fair
mount College at Wichita, Kansas,
$4,000 to erect a library building.
The Cleveland Leader says it is be-
lieved that Mrs. Cassie l.. Chadwick
has a million dollars safely hidden.
Rear Admiral F. G. Wild, United
States navy, has been retired from act
i've duty after forty-three years SER
vice.
A rate of one cent a mile will be
made by all the railroads in the coun-
try to the national eRcampment of the
G. A. R. in Denver next September.
The legislature of Washington has
passed bill providing for submis-
sion of the question of the removal of
the state capital from Olympia to
Tacoma.
The government has appointed a
commission Of military men to make a
report on new explosive invented by
New York man who has offered the
exclusive use thereof to Mexico.
Major Darlington of Manila, who
was convicted of falsifying vouchers
of the civil government to the amount
of sixty years and five days imprison-
ment.
The validity of the antitrust law is
upheld by the Supreme Court of the
United States in an opinion by Justice
Brewer in the case of Edmund J. Smi-
ley, plaintiff in error, VS.. the State Of
Kansas.
In the Oriel college sports at Ok
ford, Young. of South Dakota, won
three events, the long jump, 90 feet,
lOR inches; the 12O-yard hurdles. 20
seconds, and the high jump, five feet
two inches.
A message sent by President Roose-
welt to Emperor Nicholas contains a
strong expression of the adherence
with which both the American govern
ment and people view the crime per-
petrated at Moscow on Friday
Because his white stepfather. Eli
Pettyjohn, was abusing his squaw
wife, the latter's son, Harry, killed
Pettyjohn and then rode over 100 miles
over rough country in most inclement
weather to give himself up to the In
dian agent at Miles, Washington.
Sir Chentung Liang Cheng, Chinese
minister. recently presented to Presi-
dent Roosevelt an oil painting of the
dowager empress of China. The pres
entation was attended by the formal
exchange of felicitous address by the
Chinese minister and the President.
The one-hundredth anniversary of
the beginning of the public school sys-
TEN in New York City was celebrated
February Goth in AL the schools of the
city. New York, at the present time,
has SAG school buildings and other
school property valued at $50, 100000.
At Rochester, New York, February
14th, Miss Susan b. Anthony celebrat
ed her S5th birthday. She received
greetings from political equality clubs
in Finland, Switzerland, Holland, Aus
tria, Germany, South America and
from all quarters of America and Mex
leo.
In. the trial of Charles Kratz, for
mer member of the st. Louis Munich
pal Assembly, charged with accepting
a bribe, Judge Denton issued an order
to compel the St. Louis Trust Com
pany to produce in court the 100000
bribery fund which the state has i'm
pounded.
Information has been received at Es-
quimalt, British Columbia that the de-
fenses there and at Halifax will be
taken over without delay from the i'm
perial government by the Dominion of
Canada. 1t is estimated that $4,000
600 year will be expended on the de-
fense works.
The Montana House of Representa-
tives, by vote of &C to %, to-day
N SGal railrnnl
which provides for three commission
is vested with authority to fix rates
and compel adequate service, and for
failure to comply with its orders fines
are provided.
In order to increase the cavalry rep
resentation in the inaugural parade
and at the same time recognize the col
ored troops of the regular army, Lieu
tenant General Chaffee, chief of staff,
has directed that the first squadron of
the Ninth cavalry at Fort Riley, Kan
sas, proceed to Washington to take
part in the parade.
Henry Victor McClelland, the Eng.
lish lecturer in the Commercial Col
lege at Moscow, who was assassinated
February 5th by student, met his
uedlu because he ulu not give the lat
ter high enough marks. 1t was claimed
that McClelland imposed in this fash
ion upon boys who declined to make
him presents of money.
Nter trial consuming seventeen
days Prof. T. /. Clifford, accused of the
crime of murder at Decorah, Iowa, was
pronounced by the jury not guilty, but
insane. Prof. Clifford killed his neigh
bor, S. A. Bigelow, on Nov. 8, 1904.
He was prominent educator of Deco
rah and leading member of the Meth
odist church. He was sent to an asy-
lum.
Senator Shidlovski, president of the
commission appointed by Emperor
Nicholas to ascertain the causes of dis
content among the working classes of
st. 'etersburg, has invited the en-
ployers and workmen to elect repre-.
sentatives to sit on the commission.
The note of Senator Shidlovski guaran-
tees the personal safety Of the dele.
atpS.