The Glenwood post., 1905-10-28
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS

The attendance at the Lewis and
Clark Exposition was 2,551 $50, of
whom 1.6S0,617 paid and 971. .1G3 were
free.
John F. Stevens, chief engineer of
the Panama canal, emphatically de-
nies the rumor that he Is about to re-
sign the position.
The reorganization bill now before
the Philippine commission providing
for reducing the departments of the
government will save 81 1,250,0 (gold)
annually.
The entire business section of AL
turas, California, $50 miles north OF
Reno, Nevada, has been destroyed by
fire, twenty-seven business houses and
two residences being consumed.
The Nebraska Supreme Court hac
handed down decisions sustaining the
constitutionality of the anti-cigarette
law, the inheritance tax law and the
law to punish desecration of the Ameri-
can flag.
The presbytery of the Cumberland
Presbyterian Church in Bohlin, Ken
lucky, has decided that all women
members of the Presbytery shall give
to charity all eggs laid by their hens
on Sunday.
John j. George of the Fifteenth bat
terry of Fort Sam Houston, Texas. was
killed October 18th by a cannon wheel
striking boulder and capsizing while
the battery was practicing on the Fort
Sill reservation.
The shortage of the Mexican wheat
crop is greater than was estimated a
few weeks ago, and millers are looking
for the entire removal of the duty on
American and Canadian wheat by the
first of the year.
At the state Republican convention
in Rhode Island, Governor George H..
Utter, was renominated by acclama'
ton, together with all the present state
officers The platform declares
strongly for protection.
A dispatch from Santiago, Chile,
says that about fifty persons were
killed and 500 wounded during the re-
cent rioting there. The trouble was
caused by the opposition of the people
to the import tax on Argentine cattle.
A general council to consider the
proposed union of the Congregational
| (670,000 members, United Brethren
| (25O.OOO) and Methodist Protestant
llSu,OuUD CllulCIltS HAS Dttl "
assemble at Dayton, Ohio, February Z,
1906.
The discharge of employees of the
pension bureau who have been lending
money to their fellow employees at ex'
orbitant rates of interest, sometimes as
high as ten per cent, per month, will
be recommended by Commissioner
Warner
The Sorbonne University at Paris
has sent two young women on a trip
around the world as reward for max
ing the best records in their studies
| They will come to the United States
| first and visit some of the leading uni.
versities.
According to advices from Man
churia, General Linevitch, on receipt
| of the notifications of the ratification
| of the peace treaty, ordered the de
struction of the barricades and other
impediments of communication with
the neutral zone.
More coal was taken from the mines
of the United Kingdom during the last
year than in any previous year on rec
ord. The total, according to the return
issued by the home Office, amounted tC
232,42S,272 tons, being 3,0S3,S03 tons
more than in 1908.
The French parliament will be asked
/ to offer 100000 prize for cure fol
consumption. The project has the ap
proval of the government and there
fore it's adoption is assured. The dis
cussion at the tuberculosis congress is
responsible for this prize.
Sir Thomas Upton expects to chal
| lenge for the Americas cup in 1907
He declared recently that he was as
keen as ever and that while too late
to challenge for 1906, if all went well
he would be at Sandy Hook with a
new challenger the following year.
1t is denied by the Department OF
Justice that the voluntary testimony
of the beef packers given in the De
partment of Commerce and Labor in
Quiry as to the cause of the high price
of beef has been used in the injunc
ton suit brought against the packers
A monument to Pope Plus X, sub
scribed for by Catholics all over the
! world, was unveiled October 22d at
Riese, the little village in the Vene
tian province where the Pope was
born. His holiness is represented in
the act of administering benediction
King Victor Emmanuel recently re
ceived $4,000 anonymously for the
benefit of the sufferers by the recent
earthquake in the province of Gala
bria. Baron Kotchen, Russian consul
at Messina, now states that the con
tribution was made by Emperor Nicho
las.
The federal House of Representa-
tives of the commonwealth of Austria
liza has adopted motion to petition
King Edward to grant home rule to Ire
land. This success Of the home rulers
is attributed in a large measure to Will
liam Redmond's recent campaign In
| Australia.
William II. Nicholson, who is estab.
| fishing the new town of Cuzco. in In
diana, Is putting in all the leases a
clause to the effect that If liquor is
sold, drank or given away on any OF
| the premises. the property reVerts to