The Glenwood post., 1906-03-31
CONDENSED TELEGRAMs

Is again in the City of Mexico and is
reported to be much improved In
health.
A record price. $4,000, was paid a
Few days ago at London auction
room. for a prize orchid from a col
lection Of H. T. Pitt.
Andrew Carnegie has offered 1000
to complete the $25O,OOO endowment
fund now being raised by the Western
College for Women at Hamilton, Ohio.
The Spanish ministry of war is or
ganizing four strong flying columns for
the suppression Of agitation by the
Carlists. according to a dispatch from
Barcelona.
The Louvre theater at juneau,
Alaska, has burned down and John
King, who did the fire-eating act in the
company playing there, was cremated,
being the only victim.
The steamer Urmstom Grange, car
rying the Commercial Gable Com
pany's Pacific cable which is TO be laid
between Guam and Japan has arrived
at the island of Guam.
The United States floating dry dock
Dewey, en- route to the naval station
at Olongapo, Philippine Islands, left
the Canary Islands March 18th. pro-
posing to call at Gibraltar.
Six hundred Macedonian emlgrants
left Belgrade, Servia, March 18th, for
the United States by way of Fiume
All of them possessed sufficient funds
to permit of their entering the United
States.
Directly after the arrival of the new
Japanese ambassador at Washington
Mr.. Hioki, the first secretary Of the
embassy, will leave for Japan on leave
of absence. Mr.. Hioki, it is expected,
will be appointed head af legations.
The first smoking car ever reserved
for women in Great Britain left big
London terminus a few days since for
Liverpool. The windows bore label
reading: Ladies' Smoking" The in
novation attests the spread of smoking
among English women during recent
years.
Fire in the Haverhill, Massachu-
setts, Manual Training School and
High School Annex imperiled more
than $50 boys and girls, and, although
mainly because of GOODNESS and gener-
alship of the teachers, no lives were
lost, although few were slightly in
jured.
The only robbery occurring on the
Chicago Northwestern near Galena,
according to an official of the road,
was that of the Tower w robbery, near
De kalb, forty miles from Galena. That
robbery occurred in 1899 and netted
the perpetrators in the neighborhood
of $4,000.
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famous works of Nathaniel Hawthorne
were damaged by fire which de-
stroyed the home of his son, Julian
days ago. Several of the manuscripts
were destroyed and others were badly
damaged by water.
On March oath M Jaques Faure of
the Aero Club de France made bal
loon voyage from St. Cloud across the
Vosger mountains and the Rhine, and
descended the next morning at Galden-
bach in Hesse Nassau. The distance
of 500 kilometers (325 miles) was COW
cred in thirteen hours.
On recent voyage from New York
to Cherbourg and Hamburg the
steamer Deutschland maintained
continuous communication by wireless
telegraph with the station at Lizard
Head, Cornwall, from distance of
1000 miles out from Lizard Head, un-
til she reached Plymouth.
Three men are in Belem prison,
Mexico, under sentence of death for
having killed in Toluca, capital of the
state of Mexico, an old woman whom
they believed to be witch. Belief in
witchcraft prevails among the lower
classes in the rural regions and many
crimes have resulted from the super
stition.
The most unique motor in this coun-
try will be an armored auto which
New Mexico mining man, C. S. Hen
shaw, is having made in Boston for use
in the Southwest in the transportation
of gold from his mines. The machine
Is to be built on the plans of the Ger
man military auto, armored, and will
carry two rapid fire guns.
The American church of st. Paul in
Rome was crowded Sunday, March
25th, on the occasion of the thirteenth
anniversary of its consecration. Bishop
II. c. Potter, who read the service,
preached. Bishop Potters father cele-
brated the first service in the Ameri-
can church in Rome in 1859, when it
was held in a private house.
That the high prices of meat in Ger
many have driven some of the kaisers
people to eating dogs and cats, as well
enormous quantities of horsehesh, is
the startling revelations Of the Prus-
sian slaughter house statistics Just
published. In the course of the last
year $1,000 horses and 1912 dogs were
butchered for human consumption.
1t is stated that Swift & Co. will
buildin million dollar packing plant
at Portland, Oregon. The output will
be 500 cattle, 1000 sheep and 1000
hogs per day and employment will be
provided for 1000 men. The purpose
of the plant Is to enable Swift & Co.
to enter the Alaskan and Oriental
markets, besides furthering their in
terests in the Northwest.
AS the first motorman to he con-
victed of manslaughter for the
sacrificing of human life as