The Glenwood post., 1905-10-07
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS

at Provo, Utan, 10 cost S5UU,UOO
The strike of the drivers employed |
on United States mail wagons in New |
York City resulted in the granting of |
their demands.
Richard Clarkson, pension agent for |
Iowa and Nebraska, and for thirty
years manager of the Iowa State Reg
lister, died October Sd.
AS the result of arbitration 5000 un
ion carpenters in Boston and vicinity
had their wages increased 2S cents a
day on Monday, October I'd.
Secretary Taft has undertaken to de-
liver a speech in Ohio during the pres
ent campaign, at time and place to
be fixed by the Republican state com
mittee later on.
]. ]. Hill, president of the Great
Northern railroad, has ordered that all
operators on the system who refused
to go out during the recent strike shall
have their salaries doubled.
The decennial census just completed
shows the population of Kansas as en-
rolled by the assessors in March, 1909.
to be 1,543,S1S, an increase of 209,OSf
over the population as shown by the
census in 1895.
The publication of the October bu-
reau report showing the condition of
cotton to be 71.2 per cent. against 72.1
last month and 1873 per cent. last year,
was followed by a sensational break
in the cotton market
The appraisement at over $4,000,
600 of the estate of the late Adrian lse-
lin of New Rochelle, New York, has
been filed in court. The appraisement
| showed 81 ,407 05O of real estate and
| S14,925,906 of personal property.
| A Moscow dispatch says that Lieu
tenant General Stoessel, who com
manded the Russian forces at Port
| Arthur, is suffering from "A stroke of
paralysis which affects his entire left
| side. The generals recovery is hoped
| for. -
| Passenger fares in upper Michigan
have been voluntarily reduced by the
| Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul road,
the reduction being from cents a mile
to 8 cents. Similar action on the part
on the Chicago & Northwestern was
| recently announced.
At Magnolia, Missouri Bessie Per
| ltins, white woman, has been sen
fenced to ten years in the penitentiary
for marrying and living with a negro
Judge Wilkinson, in passing sentence
| the punishment no heavier.
Mr. De Thai, secretary of the Rus
sian embassy at Washington, has been
temporarily transferred to Mexico as
charge d'affaires of the Russian lega-
ton there. Prince Kudaeheff, who was
with Baron Rosen at Toxic has been
attached to the Washington embassy.
The figures show that 9O,772 immi-
| pru l1nIpI nt Kills Island la
month as against S2,7OS in September,
1904. The last month has, according
to Commissioner Watchorn, been the
| heaviest immigration September in
the history OF the immigration bureau.
Orders for 100000 tons of shipping
have been placed with Clyde builders
during the past month while $4,000
tons of new ships We're launched dur
ing the same period. This boom is due
to the expectation of a great increase
in the far eastern trade, now that the
war is over.
The North American Commercial
| Company, lessee of sealing rights off
the Pribyloff Islands, shipped 14,36S
fur sealskins during the season of 1905,
against 13,12S shipped in 1904, accord
ing to figures made public to-day by
w. /. Lembky, agent in charge of seal
fisheries of Alaska.
The so-called Great Berlin Street
Railway Company, owner of most of
the surface lines in the city of Berlin,
has decided to increase its capital by
| S15 100000 and construct underground
lines under POtsdamer Leipsiger and
,Unter den Linden streets, provided. as
seems probable, that ninety-year con
.cession can be obtained.
The New York State Department of
Labor calls attention to marked i'm
provement in trade, which began in
the middle of 1904 and has continued
almost uninterruptedly. The depart
ment says that now there are rela-
lively fewer idle wage earners in New
York than there We're even in 1902, the
most prosperous year of the decade.
The report of Francis A. Dodge, the
paymaster general of the army, points
out that the enlisted men have now
ievery chance to put away money for
their own savings by the deposit sys-
TEN, which guarantees them absolute
safety. During the year the year the
| amount deposited by the men was ST.
| 531 020, making the total amount since
the establishment of the system, $26,-
'294,326.
Mail advices from the South Seas
include a disastrous typhoon and tidal
wave in the Marshall group causing
the loss of 120 lives. A wave nearly
six feet high swept the islands of ia
luit. The settlement is on an island
about mile long and where the Euro
peans are gathered is about 100 yards
wide. The top story of the hotel, in
which the foreigners lived, was blown
off and several had narrow escapes
from falling debris.
BY direction of the President the
State and Navy Departments have be-
gun the preparation of plans for recep-
tion in this country of Prince Louis of
/ ,Battenburg. The English squadron
will arrive at Annapolis November
list, remaining there until the 7th or
Sth, when it will sail for New York,