The Glenwood post., 1906-09-22

| ness, provided a certificate from a
physician certifying the facts is OBJ
! tanned.
| More than 500 members attended
| the opening session of the National
| Prison congress at Albany, N Y.
After a successful test of gasoline
motor cars the Union Pacific railway
| officials announce that their branch
lines will be equipped with them.
The constructing quartermaster at
! Fort Leavenworth has received in
struCtions to proceed with the con-
struction of Is new buildings at the
post
Three batteries Of field artillery
have been detailed by the war de-
partment to attend the Pike centen-
NAL celebration at Republic City, Kan.
The circuit court of Chicago has
declared constitutional the law au-
thorizing the issue by the city of
$75,O0O,000 worth OF street railway
certificates as a part of the plan for
municipal ownership.
1t is understood that Acting Sec
retary of War Oliver, who inspected
the troops at Fort Riley, was greatly
pleased with all he saw at the post
President Palma, of Cuba. has di-
! rected that all hostilities cease while
an effort is being made to arrange
with the insurgents for settlement
of differences and thus prevent in
tervention by the United States.
Leyte Pulajanes recently made
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tachment of the Twenty-fourth in
| fantry, colored, and before being
driven off succeeded In killing two
| and wounding eight soldiers.
The Chicago grand jury has re-
turned indictments against the di-
rectors of the wrecked Milwaukee
Avenue State bank, of which Paul o.
Stensland was the president, charg-
ing embezzlement in various amounts.
While engaged in robblng the Hotel
Hamilton in Wichita, Kan, Joseph
Fitzpatrick was shot and killed by a
hackman who witnessed the affair
from the street
In the peonage case now being tried
at Cape Girardeau, Mo, negro wit
ii'S7''o NllS N'l' Il'li ny lllt OulllH
family tell of the brutality of their
! alleged employers who forced them
to work under armed guards.
The attempt to amend the constitu-
tion of the Improved Order of Red
men to exclude liquor dealers, saloon
keepers and professional gamblers
| from the order was defeated.
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a sales stable and the St Clair hotel.
, Thirty guests in the hotel escaped
with only their night clothes. Thirty
two mules were incinerated.
In order to guard against any
/ drunken demonstrations on Mexican
| independence day, September l6, the
mayor OF every city throughout the
country has been ordered to close all
saloons in his territory
Robbers broke into the bank of
Akeley, MINI. recently and succeeded
in carrying away $4,000 in currency.
Attorney General Hadley, of Mis-
souri, has secured from II. Clay
Pierce an admission on the witness
staEd that the majority stock of the
Waters-Pierce oil company is owned
by the Standard Oil company.
Two violent and seemingly distinct
storms visited Johnson county, Ne
braslla recently resulting in the death
of four persons and the fatal injury
to two others. Much property was
damaged.
One hundred and twenty sailors of
the United states cruiser Denver were
lanCed in Havana recently for the
purpose of protecting American citi-
zens and their property. Marines
from the gunboat Marietta were also
landed at Cienfuegos.
The scientists of the agricultural
department have demonstrated that
there is profit in making alcohol from
the waste material of corn canneries
fifteen gallons have been secured
from ton of cobs.
After having travelled around the
world a fugitive from Justice for
nearly a year, Granville NJ. Gwyn,
former cashier of the bank of Hayti,
Mo, who left a shortage of S17O2l,
has returned and voluntarily given
himself up to the authorities.
After a protraCted conference with
Secretaries Taft and Bonaparte and
Acting Secretary of State Bacon Pres
ident Roosevelt has addressed a let
ter to the Cuban minister at Wash
ington making known the policies of
the administration regarding the pres
ent situation in the island. The pres
ident says tina: unless the Cubans i'm
mediately show ability to maintain or
der the United States will be COM
PEELED to take control under the
Platt amendment
During the unve.ling OF a statue to
tho late President Mckinley at Col
dmbus, O., panic among the 10000
persons present, who crowded forward
to get view of Mrs Nicholas Long
worth, was narrowly averted. The
crush was so great that the afternoon
exercises had tp