The Glenwood post., 1905-11-25
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS

does not make man a habitual
drunkard
1t has been decided that the Presi-
dents forthcoming annual message to
Congress will be submitted Tuesday,
December 5th.
fire at the Overholt distillery, near
Connellsville. Pennsylvania, November
10th, destroyed $l,G00,000 worth of
whiskey and other property.
King Edward has given s1O,50O and
the Prince of Wales s5.25O to the fund
for the aid of the unemployed which
was started by Queen Alexandria.
The Spanish embassy at London
says there is absolutely no truth in
the statement that King Alfonso is to
marry Princess Ena of Battenburg.
Lord Mount Stephen has contributed
$4,000 to Queen Alexandra's fund for
the unemployed. This is the largest
individual subscription thus far re-
Ceived
William Travers Jerome. the newly
elected district attorney of New York
City, has filed his declaration Of cleo
tion expenses. He says that he didn't
put up cent.
Secretary Taft denies the report
that matters pertaining to the Philip
pines are to be transferred to the State
Department. He says it is absolutely
without foundation.
Rev. J. S. Lord of the Yale class of
1881, said to have been for many years
the oldest living alumnus of Yale,
died November Goth, at Laingsburg,
Michigan, aged ninety-seven.
The Marquis OF pownshire has
agreed to sell his agricultural lands in
County Down, Ireland, to the tenants.
The estate is the largest in Ireland and
is valued at about $l5,000.O00.
Lord Brassey has offered to erect at
his own expense large number of cot
tages of English style for sufferers
from the recent earthquake in Italy.
The Italian government has accepted
his offer.
President Roosevelt has appointed
Judge Charles +. Wolverton, associate
justice of the Oregon Supreme Court,
as United States district Judge of Ore
gon, in succession to the late Judge
Charles B. Bellinger. ,
The Standard Oil Company has just
| declared a quarterly dividend of $40 a
| share. The previous dividend was $6
share. This last declaration brings
| the total dividend for the year to $40
share. Last year it was $36.
Read Admiral G. W. Baird. superin-
tendent of the State, War and Navy
Department building, has asked to be
relieved of duty. Out of the forty-three
years of service in the navy, he has
been OF duty only four months.
The Census Bureau has issued bull
letin placing the amount of cotton
ginned to November l4th at 7,49S,lG7
bales. Texas leads with 1,S22,942
bales, Alabama being next with lit
tie more than half that amount.
Alexander Mclean, Canadian COM
missioner at Yokohama, says the re-
cent agitation of life insurance mat
ters in New York has seriously al
fected the Japanese business of both
American and Canadian companies.
1t is stated that the New York Cen
tral and Delaware & Hudson interests
are about to purchase the United Trac-
ton Company of Albany, controlling
the street car lines in Albany, Troy,
Rensselaer, and Cohoes, for $7,5O0,OOO.
The loss of live stock, grain, hay
and farm buildings on account Of the
kota, is estimated at $500 900. An area
that covered five miles wide and
twenty miles long was swept by the
fire.
The Nicaraguan Court of Cessation
has confirmed the sentence OF thirty
two months for William S. Albers, the
American found guilty of resisting the
execution of legal process in Nicar'
aqua and with insulting President Ze'
laya.
In a big poverty parade" at London
last week red flags We're seen and ban
ners bearing such devices as Curse
Your Charity; We Want Work. and
There is Limit to Human Endur
hnce," indicated the temper of the pro
cessionists.
Lieutenant Coionel Arthur Tire
mayne, one Of the few remaining sur
vivors OF the charge of the Light
Brigade at Balalilara, in which he was
wounded and his horse shot, died at
Cornwall few days ago, aged sew
enty-eight years.
The Toxic correspondent of the Lon
don Daily Telegraph understands that
an Anglo-Thibetan treaty has been
signed and that it provides that Great
Britain shall acknowledge Chinese SOW
ereignty in Thibet il return for which
China will pay an indemnity.
The Southern Cotton Association
has perfected plans for the taking off
the market of 100000 bales of cot
ton by means of a series of pledges
which the farmers will sign them
selves. The cotton held will not be
| cold for lps- than cents n DDllDu.
The students of the Nebraska Cen
tral College have decided by unani-
nous vote to eliminate football from
the list of college sports. They as
sign as reason for their action de-
sire for self-supporting athletics, for
| clean sport and for noble manhood.
David Bell Parsons, cousin of Con
sui General Parsons in Mexico City,
and native of Minneapolis, Minnesota,
has been killed in the state of Pueblo,