The Glenwood post., 1906-11-24
The snow storm chat has prevslIea

, The snow storm that has prevailed
all over New Mexico and Northwes-
tern Texas was So severe and came
great damage to livestock and sheep
in particular will result.
President Roosevelt signed an or
, der while on the isthmus of Panama
which eliminates the office of govern
or of the zone, all authority being
vested in Chairman Shonts and the
canal commission.
A storm of wind and rain which
! originated along the gulf coast swept
northward through Alabama, Missis-
sippi and Tennessee doing great
damage.
A bomb was exploded in St. Peters
at Rome where the great church was
crowded and while a scene Of great
confusion followed there was no fatal
tiles.
The sound steamer Dix and the
Alaska steamer Jeanie collided in
Puget sound and 40 persons were
| drowned out of the 80 aboard the Dix
at the time of the disaster.
1t is asserted that certain members
plan for the establishment of per,
| manent protectorate in Cuba by the
| American government.
The collector of the port of San
| Francisco has been notified to pre-
pare for the reception of Japanese
squadron which will visit that city
next spring. Extreme courtesy is to
be offered the officers and squadron
Sixteen new laws have been pro.
posed by the insurance commission
which held its session in Chicago for
the purpose of correcting the abuses
in the management of life insurance
companies and the various states
will be asked to adopt them.
The Central Freight Association at
Chicago has refused the demands of
the independent oil dealers for re-
duction of 40 per cent in freight rates
on petroleum and it's products and
they have decided to take the case be-
fore the Interstate Commerce Com
mission
Attorney General Moody, acting
through the resident United States
| district attorney, has instituted pro-
| ceedings in the federal court at st.
| Louis, under the Sherman antitrust
act. to dissolve the Standard Oil COM
| bination.
| The National Tube company at
| Pittsburg, Pa, has received an order
for 43o miles of eight-inch pipe for
line to connect the Indian territor
oil field with Port Arthur, Tex
A storm unprecedented in violence
| recently ragged over the entire state
of Washington and a portion of Ore
gon. Great damage was reported at
Portland, Tacoma and Seattle.
| After doing incalculable damage.
the water in the swollen rivers of
| Washington and Oregon is receding.
Thousands of people were driven
from their homes in the valleys and
were encamped in the surrounding
hills.
The wages of all employees of the
| roads west of Pittsburg, operated by
the Pennsylvania company, receiving
| less than 5000 a month, have been
| increased 10 per cent by the board
of directors
The New York Central Railroad
| company has been convicted of CIV
ing rebates to the sugar trust in
| the federal court at New York,
A new counterfeit $40 Buffalo"
| pntn has bppn Inv tho Ir,j
| ted States secret service.
Federal authorities are investigat-
| ing the disappearance of upwards OF
| $l,000,0OO of the relief funds sent to
San Francisco earthquake sufferers.
| The president is behind the inquiry.
A Dutch cruiser recently from the
| island of Curacao. reports that it Is
believed there that President Castro.
of Venezuela. is dead and that The
government is concealing the fact in
order to maintain itself in power.
Mrs. Charles Mowry, and her three
little children, We're burned to death
recently in their home near Cold
| water, Mich.
The pope has received letters con-
tanning threats that he will be assassi.
! mated as part of the plans of an
! archists to destroy all institution sup
ported by religion or military force.
The official returns from the entire
state of Iowa show the total vote cast
for governor was Cummins, 216,5 sos.
Porter, 196,052; Cummins' plurality
20.453
The wages of employees of the
American Express company. who are
paid less than 5000 per month, have
been increased ten per cent. Ten
thousand employees are affected.
With full military hopors the re-
mains of the late Maj. Gen. Shafter
have been laid to rest In the Nation.
al cemetery at the Preside, San
Francisco.
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