The Glenwood post., 1906-04-07
CONDENSED IELEGRAMs

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coal mine, near Nagasaki, Japan.
March 2sth, ESQ miners were killed.
While at Toxic last month, Jacob H.
Schif, the New York banker, was dec
GRATED with the order of the Rising
Sun by the Emperor of Japan.
Senator Tillman has announced that
he will make his campaign in South
Carolina on the issue that the state
liquor laws must be amended.
Representative Jones of Washing
ton has introduced bill to compel all
vessels to carry oil and machinery for
distributing it during storms.
Count Zeppelin is to build another
airship. Despite his failure, the Ger
man army will furnish him with the
funds to continue his experiments.
AT University of Wisconsin demon
stration in indignation over the faculty
hostility to football, leading anti-foot-
ball professors were burned in effigy.
Mrs. Marietta Chaplin Pearsons, wife
of DR.. Pearsons, who has given mil
lions Of dollars to aid small colleges
died at Hinsdale, Illinois, on the Both
ult.
A fishing boat struck a floating mine
ince Of Echizen, Japan, and was blown
up. Seven of her crew OF ten men are
missing.
A gift of s665,OOO will accrue to Tus-
kegee Institute, Alabama, by the will
of the late Andrew T. Dotger, a retired
merchant of New York City, who died
two months ago at his home, South
Orange, New Jersey.
The date for the national encamp-
ment of the United States war veter-
ans in Washington has been fixed for
October Sth, and throughout the week.
The President will address the veter-
ans and review the parade.
When Joe Transfer, an old offender,
was brought before the police Judge at
Bennington, Kansas, on the charge of
having been intoxicated, the Judge
fined him 50 and ordered that he be
confined to his bed for week. Mar
shall Horath took Transfer home and
put him to bed.
Fifteen hundred Russian students Of
both sexes are starving in Paris as an
indirect consequence of the Russian
| revolution. The majority have been
living on remittances received from
home, but for long time they have
been without news.
By a storm uprooting an apple tree
at English, Indiana, $4,000 of the treas
ure hidden by George Patten forty
years ago was unearthed. This find
caused the search to be renewed by his
family, and few days since the dis
covery of $4,000 more was made.
Baron Loicq De Lobel, in order to
meet the wishes of the Russian ma
tional defense committee, has altered
his Bering strait tunnel and Siberian
railway project to make the railroad
run due east from Kansk to the 10th
degree of longitude and thence north
easterly to Yakutsk.
After a protracted session at Des
Moines the representatives of the clubs
In the Western Baseball League agreed
upon a schedule. A resolution was
passed requiring each club to post a
$1,000 guarantee that it would finish
tn eseason. The pannant was voted to
the Des Moines team.
Maj. H. B. Hersey, director of the
weather bureau at Milwaukee and in
spector of the western stations, re-
Gently received a telegram from Wash
ington instructing him to report as
soon as possible at Washington to pre-
pare to accompany the Wellman eX-
pedition in search of the north pole.
Minister of Public Work Hyman OF
Canada has announced a federal policy
for water power which will prevent the
expectation of power from the Niagara
Falls to an extent which would starve
Canadian industries. 1t is also the in
tention of the government to prevent
the Spoliation of the scenery of the
falls.
The official returns of births in Ber-
lin last month throw some light on the
size of German families. One of the
children born was the twenty-first in
the family, the mother being forty
years old. One woman forty-four years
old presented her husband with his
sixteenth son, and one ten years
younger had her fifteenth child.
An official dispatch received at Ber-
lin from German Southwest Africa con-
firms the reported disaster to a Ger
man detachment consisting of an Off
Ger and sixteen men The dispatch
says that on March 26th the Hottentots
attacked a train of wagons between
Ukamis and the eastern frontier and
killed Lieutenant Keller and ten troop
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the wagons.
The Los Angeles City Council has
granted a franchise which is believed
to be covertly for the use of Gould's
Western Pacific for terminal facilities
in Los Angeles. The franchise was for
steam railroad with switches, side
tracks, space for sections, ETC., along
a stretch of territory running from the
eastern limits of the city along the
Los Angeles river bed to Also street,
q distance of three miles.
The United States government has
accepted the offer of the Washington
Irrigation Company to sell the Sunny
side canal, and lateral works, the larg-
est private irrigation system in the
Northwest, located in Yakima and Ben
ton counties, Washington, for $250,000
The government, which already has
approved the Tieton and Yakima irri-
CATION projects, will water 125,000
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