The Glenwood post., 1906-08-04
NEWS OF TIE WEEK
Most Important Happenings Ct the
Past Seven Days.
Interesting Items Gathered from All
parts of the World CONDEMNED
Into Small Space for the
Dement, of Our Readers.
Personal.

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Evening Herald and one of the well
known newspaper men of Ohio died
at his home in Dayton, aged So years.
Gen. Oku has been appoin led chief
of the general staff of the japanese
army in succession to Gen. Baron
Kodama, who died July %.
John d. Rockefeller has returned
from his European trip.
Capt. j. Wesley Conner, who for
nearly 60 years was steamboat cap
tain on the Mississippi and other riv-
ers, died at his home in New Albany
Ind.
Bernard l.. Levinthal, who for Is
years has been chief rabbi of the Or
thodox Jews of Philadelphia, has been
elected chief rabbi of the entire body
of orthodox Jews in the United States
Hill P. Wilson, for eight years as
sistant secretary of state for Kansas
has resigned to devote his attention
to his mining interests.
Congressman De Armond has been
renominated by the democrats of the
Sixth congressional district of Mis-
souri, making the ninth consecutive
time he has received the nomination
without opposition.
The body of Russell Sage, the New
York financier, was laid to rest at
Troy, N. Y, with simple ceremonies.
Don Pedro Monte has been elected
president of Chile for term of five
years.
H. C. Brokmeyer, former lieutenant
governor of Missouri and acting gov
ernor in 1867, is dead in St. Louis
hospital after a lingering illness. He
was a nephew of Prince Bismarck and
a native of Minden. Prussia.
Charles H. Whitaker, Sr, editor OF
the Clinton, Mo-, Democrat, died re-
Gently at his home in Clinton aged 20
years. He had been in the newspaper
business in Illinois and Missouri 50
years.
President Palma, of Cuba, has par
doned Millie Brown and other Amer
leans arrested on the Isle of Pines for
maintaining a private telegraph line
Miscellaneous.
The mayor of Havana, Cuba, and
all the aldermen have resigned in an
ticipation of a request for their resig-
nations by President Palma.
The month of July witnessed a
series of heavy rains on the isthmus
of Panama and the conditions at
Colon are worse than ever before
The encampment of regulars and
national guard at Chickamauga Ma
,n1 IL L.
The Pacific express On the New
York Central railroad was wrecked
at Chelsea, N. Y, the engine and ex-
press car going into the river and the
balance of the train was piled up in
a bad wreck, several persons being
killed and large number injured.
The bank of Rush Springs, l. T.
has closed its doors and a receiver
has been appointed. The liabilities
are supposed to be about $15, 200 more
than the assets.
Two bombs were dropped from an
elevated train in New York recently
into crowd of 200 members of the
plumbers union, who were standing
in the street below. Eight men were
painfully injured.
Twenty-Five passengers were injured
two probably fatally by the derail-
ment recently at Springfield Mo-, OF
st. Louis & San Francisco passenger
train.
At conference in Chicago in which
every road interested was represented,
it was decided to end the grain rate
war from Missouri river points to Chi
cago on August 10.
The will of the late Russell Sage
has been filed for probate. After be-
queathing s650,OOO to blood relations,
the document gives the residue of the
estate, about $7O,OOO,OO0, to the widow,
who will distribute it in charity.
Judge Lands, of the United States
district court at Chicago has handed
down decision declaring that John
Alexander Dowie is not the owner
of Zion City and its industries, the
court deciding that the money given
to Dowie was trust. A receiver was
appointed and an election for gen.
eral overseer ordered to be held on
the third Tuesday of September
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson has
made public the regulations govern
ing the inspection of meat products
for interstate and foreign trade under
the new law. They are very stringent
throughout and are in line with the
best authorities on the subject.
The Standard Oil company has re-
duced the price of the higher grades
OF crude petroleum three cents and
other grades two ceuts.
The threatened strike of the United
brotherhood of Paper Makers has been
averted by the employers granting
their demands.
A special federal grand jury has
been called to meet in Chicago to in
vestigate the Standard Oil company's
methods of transporting its products,
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