The Glenwood post., 1906-10-06
A suit has been brought before the

determine whether George A. KIM
me, former president of an Arkansas
City, Kan, bank, is dead or is a ma
mae confined in an asylum in New
York. The suit involves the pay
,nent Of $1,000 life insurance.
The army viii shortly adopt a new
bullet, which has a long, straight.
.aperius point in place o. the rounded
point of the bullet now in use.
President Roosevelt and family have
returned to the White house after
having spent the summer at their
home at Oyster Bay
Practically all the gold offered in
the London market Monday totalling
about $500, 900, was secured for the
United States
Fort Morgan at the entrance to
Mobile harbor was seriously damaged
by the recent storm, the entire post
having been under water and every
building suffered injury, some of them
having been entirely destroyed.
Secretary Taft has issued a procla-
nation declaring himself provisional
governor of Cuba and cabled the war
department to send $500 troops to
Cuba at once. Orders have been is
sued and the troops will start from
Newport News, Va, as soon as posi-
Bile.
L. o. Bode. defaulting treasurer of
Falls City, Neb.. has been found guilty
Of embezzling $4,000
Gen. Stoessel is being tried before
high military court for having sur
rendered Port Arthur to the Japanese.
1t is estimated that 80 per cent of
the yellow pine timber in Mississippi
has been ruined by the recent storm.
A French architect has been award
ed the first prize in competition 70,
designs for the Carnegie palace of
peace and has received from Queen
Wilhelmina an order for the construc-
tion of uat building at The Hague.
Judge G.. F. Irwin, of the district
court at Kingfisher, Ok, has ordered
the Rock Island railroad company TO
at once commence the erection of a
substantial bridge across the Cimar-
ron river where the recent ac.:=-ut
occurred and severely censured the
railroad management for maintaining
so flimsy a structure.
Orders have been issued by the
navy department for the Glacier to
stop at Joppa while en- route from
the Philippines in order to allow the
crew to visit the Holy Land This
is considered an unusual privilege
The strike of the boilermakers. ma
chinists and blacksmiths of the Wa
bash railroad has been ended by the
company granting an increase in
wages.
a monument to ZebulOn Pike the
Giscoverer of the peak which bears
his name, was unveiled recently at
Colorado Springs with fitting cere-
mony.
general order has been promul-
gated by the war department. pronibit-
ing the soliciting Of pension or other
claims against the government on
military reservations or at military
posts
The government is experiencing
great difficulty in securing horses
and mules for the army. Cavalry
horses are now quoted at $liO and
mules at $50 per head.
Fifty representatives of lumber
companies of Missouri Texas. Ala
bama, Louisiana and Mississippi re-
Gently met in st. Louis and formed
an association. A capital of several
million dollars was represented.
Three persons were killed and 81
injured in the wreck of a Wabash
fast passenger train at Catln, Ill
The train ran into an open switch
and all the passenger cars but one
turned over and We're burned.
At the meeting of the Missouri State
Bar Association, the committee OF leg
islation recommended an amendment
to the constitution permitting courts
to send to Jail divorced husbands who
refuse to pay alimony to their wives
when ordered to do so by the court.
In the federal court at Wichita.
Kan. the Boyce Cattle company
bltdutu SllllN 10 ltntlnS government
land and was fined sl,25O by Judge
Pollock.
Kansas farmers are now asking
for help to husk the largest corn crop
in the history of the state.
The Cuban congress in special ses-
sion failed to act on the designations
pf President Palma and his cabinet
because of inability to secure a quo
rum, thus allowing the government of
the republic to die by default The
United States marines were immedi-
ately landed at Havana to protect the
treasury.
A salute of II guns in honor of
Brig Gen. Zebulon Pike was recently
fred from the summit of Pixies Peak
in honor of the discoverer. A bronze
tablet commemorating the event was
also unveiled
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