The Glenwood post., 1906-03-17
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS.


gambling. Hereafter neither side can
collect money in Texas on deals in
| cotton futures
Women of Chicago, despairing OF
police protection and thoroughly
alarmed by numerous attacks, are said
to be carrying short revolyers in their
muffs and handbags
A distinct earthquake shock was felt
in Portland Maine. March 4th. In
several parts of the city the shock was
accompanied by rumbling, which
lasted several seconds.
Colonel C. A. Smith, a lumberman
of Minneapolis, Minnesota has offered
to give 100000 to Bethany college, at
Lindsborg, Kansas. on condition that
the college raise like sum
The three men who February tenth
attempted to assassinate General
Reyes, president of the Republic of
Colombia, We're shot March 7th at the
spot where the attack took place.
snow avalanche at the Lofeten
Island, off the coast of Norway, on the
7th inst, buried a number of fisher
mems huts Rescuers extricated
twenty-one dead and thirty nine in
jured.
'toi Sc Il uOnldS, TetlTeu BANKER
of Philadelphia, has given 500 900 to
the board of missions of the Protes-
tant Episcopal Church, to be used for
home missionary work at the discre-
ton of the board.
Judge William Hickman Moore,
| Municipal Ownership candidate for
mayor of Seattle, has just been elected
by the small majority of fifteen votes.
| al nj Il1 oh in ha
history of the city.
The sentence of death imposed upon
Mrs. Antonette Tolla for the killing of
Joseph Sonta has been commuted to
seven years and half imprisonment
by the New Jersey Court of Pardons.
The vote stood six to two.
A $1,000,0O0 Masonic club house on
Michigan avenue is the plan of Chi
caSo Masons. who have organized a
new society for the express purpose of
putting through their project Forty
officers of Chicago Masonic lodges
| have the matter in hand
An alarming earthquake has oc-
CURED in Bashahs, one of the Simla
tributary hill states of the Punjab in
India. Considerable damage has been
caused at Rampur, the capital of Bas-
killed and twenty-six injured.
Tacloban, the capital of the island
of Leyte, has been destroyed by fire
The financial loss is reported TO be
100000. Tacloban was the fifth city
of the islands and was situated in an
| important hemp district. A number
of warehouses We're destroyed.
Within two months silver shipments
from the single port of Vera Cruz in
Mexico, have amounted to s9,7l6,OOO
the bulk of the shipments being silver
I pesos from London and New York.
Another shipment of million pesos
will be made within ten days.
Maj. George II. Hopkins. former de
partment commander of the G. \. r.,
department of Michigan, who held an
important confidential position in the
War Department under Secretary AL
! ger during the Spanish-American War
died at Detroit on the 9Th inst.
Frederick Augustus III, King of Sax
ony, has asked the Pope for a special
| license to marry In November, 1891.
he welded the Archduchess Louise of
| Tuscany, and secured IA divorce from
her in February, 1903, after she had
cloped with her children's tutor.
Herr Mendelsohn, head of the bank
ing firm of Mendelsohn & Company, of
Berlin, has received number of let
ters since his arrival at St Petersburg
| threatening him with death if he ncgo-
tiated loan with Russia. Six deteC-
| tives have been assigned to guard him.
A fire at Sheboygan, Wisconsin.
| March 9th, caused loss og 100000
in the furniture factory district. The
| hoo n,.in 1,,1,, Oh
| Company. $4,000; Sears Roebuck &
| Co, Chicago. warehouse, 100000;
Montgomery Ward & Co., warehouse,
| 100000.
| There is trust for the dead as well
as for the living in Chicago, according
TO the finding of the Cigarmakers' un-
ion. There is monopoly of cemeteries
within the city limits and union labor
has no place to bury its dependent
| dead except at prices for lots that are
| prohibitive.
One of the finest club buildings in
the world is planned by the Univer-
sity club of Chicago on the site of the
present offices of the Mccormick Har-
vester Company, and when completed
and furnished it is expected to repre-
sent an outlay of over $l.O0O,000. inde-
lease.
Columbia college, New York City,
is considering plans for an athletic
field to cost sl,OOO000. AS no ground
near the university building is avail
able, 1t is proposed to make the ground
by filing in the shallow shore waters
of the Hudson river as far out as the
pier headline, between 1l6th and l2Oth
streets.
The Sons of the Revolution at New
port, Rhode Island, have brought suit
in the Superior Court against Hiram
Birmingham, a dealer in antiquities,
and John d. Johnson. owner of the
Van Sandt estate, to compel re-
opening of way to the grave of Bene-
dict Arnold, which lies back of Bur
lingham's store.
The club women of the United
States are being asked to unite in
testimonial to Mrs. Lille Devereaux