The Glenwood post., 1905-02-04
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS

United States senator from Nevada.
Fire at Oberlin College January 31st
destroyed Baldwin cottage, the prin-
cipal ladies dormitory, valued at $40,-
! 000
The Missouri State Senate has
passed bill repeating the law prohib-
iting the use OF alum in baking pow
ders.
A cablegram from Santiago, Chilli
says that the first automobile has just
crossed the Andes at an elevation of
$4,000 feet.
Postmaster James NJ. Hobson OF
Greensboro. Alabama. father of Capt.
Richmond P. Hobson. died January
31st. aged sixtyeight.
The Japanese recently captured off
Hokkaido island. northern Japan. the
British steamer Wyfield. loaded with
contraband for Nladivostok.
The directors of the Lewis & Clark
Exposition Company have decided to
open the fair to the public Sundays
The Oregon Trail" shows will be
closed
Lady CurzOn. wife OF the viceroy of
India. has completely recovered from
her long illness. and is preparing to
join her husband in India with their
children.
A bill. granting to women the right
to vote for presidential electors has
been favorably reported to the Kansas
House OF Representatives. 1t is ex-
pected the bill will pass.
The police committee of the San
Francisco grand jury is unearthing a
regularly organized system of gross
police corruption in Chinatown and
numerous indictments are expected.
The Montana legislature has memoir
lalized Congress to submit to the peo-
pie a constitutional amendment pro-
viding for the election of United States
senators by direct vote of the people
Gadsden and Alfalfa. Alabama. expe-
rienced an earthquake shock during
the night Of January 9th. Many citi-
zens were awakened. In some in
stances glassware was thrown from the
tables.
1t is announced that there is to be
combination of the forty-three lead
ing telephone companies of the United
States and Canada under the tutelage
of the American Telephone and Tele-
graph Company, the capitalization to
be $3.50 900.
A st. Petersburg dispath says the
report that Maxim Gorky. the celebrat-
ed novelist, may be hanged for high
treason is without the slightest foun.
dalton. Even his friends declare the
rumor absurd. The expectation is that
he will be released in a few weeks.
a. orrD h
OF Philippine coins to Manila on the
transport Sherman February lst
These We're old Spanish coins. re,
claimed by the government and re.
coined, amounting to 1,056.OOO pesos
! and also $4,000 pesos in 2O-centavos
! pieces,
After twenty years service as
/ United States commissioner Of labor
/ Carroll d. Wright retired from that of
/ flee January 31st, leaving for Worces
ter, Massachusetts, to assume the pres
idency of Clark College His sue
cessor. DR.. C. p, Neill, has taken
charge OF the office.
Spencer Eddy. secretary of the
American embassy at st. Petersburg,
was nearly ridden down by cavalry
U
ron of CossaCks charging crowd, and
the crowd itself. He ran three blocks
met the sleigh of an acquaintance
jumped on the footboard behind and
escaped.
Suits for damages aggregating al
most s2.5OO,0OO have been brought
against the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company in the United States Circuit
Court by the Pennsylvania Coal and
Coke Company and the Webster Goa
and Coke Company on account of al
legged discrimination against the plain
| tiff companies.
1t is stated at San Francisco thai
the actual construction work of the
| Western Pacific railroad will begir
within two months and that a GoulC
road to San Francisco promises to be
an accomplished fact soon. Rights OF
way and San Francisco terminal are
said to have been finally secured with
out fear of Interference.
Fifty miles in thirty-eight minute.
| tifty-one seconds was made in the Day
tona handicap in Florida January BIS
! by w II. Fletcher in L. r. Thomas
! eighty horsepower automobile. Thu
| race WIS III leH-mlle stretches, VIII
| two minutes control at each turn. w
| H. Bowden made mile in thirty-twt
and four-tifths seconds
| President BeCkwith of the defunc
| Citizens National Bank at Oberlin
Ohio, is reported in serious condi
ton. Beckwith has been i'll with hear
trouble ever since the close of tn
| bank on account of the Chadwicl
loans and has gradually grown weaker
| 1t is believed he will not live to b,
tried on the charges against him.
A statue has been erected in Fuller
ton Memorial hall at the art institute
at Chicago in honor of DR.. Mary Harri
Thompson. DR.. Thompson was tn
founder in 1865 of the Mary Thomr
son hospital for women and children
and was the pioneer woman physician
of the Northwest. The memorial cos
$3.50, and is the work of Daniel {
| French.
The house of the Arkansas Genera
Assembly. by vote of 81 ayes to 2
noes. has indefinitely postponed \th