The Glenwood post., 1906-10-13
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Most Important Happenings of the
Past Seven Days.
InterestinE Items Gathered from All
parts of the World Condemned
Into Small Space for the
Beneht of Our Readers.
Personal.

has Dtbn lOT-
mally appointed to command the
American troops in Cuba by the war
department.
Gen. Franklin Bell, chief of staff
has been ordered to Cuba to consult
with Secretary Taft.
Miss Carrie Peyton Wheeler young
est daughter of the late Gen. Joseph
Wheeler, was married in Decatur,
Ala. recently to Gordon Montgomery,
of New York
Hoke Smith. a member of Pres
ident Clevelands cabinet, has been
elected governor of Georgia by the
usual majority.
Senior Quesada, minister of Cuba,
TO this country, has consented to
withdraw his resignation at the re-
quest of Secretaries Taft and Root.
President Roosevelt made a flying
trip to Harrisburg and York, Pa, re-
Gently and in each city made a speech
in the rain. At Harrisburg Pennsyl-
vania's new sl3,000,000 capitol building
was dedicated.
King Haakon was recently accorded
magnificent reception at Copenhagen
on his first visit to his home since
hts coronation as king of Norway.
At the horse show in Cedar Rapids,
Ia, Jacob Fisher, one of the judges,
fell dead of apoplexy. Mr.. Fisher
lived at West Liberty, and was one Of
the leading horsemen of the west
The emperor OF Russia and members
of the imperial family, who have
been cruising in Finnish waters, have
returned to Peterhof
The sultan of Turkey has finally
officially received Ambassador Leish-
man after months of delay
B. G. Grohndahl, of Lindsborg, was
elected president of the Kansas Pho
tographers' association at the recent
session in Hutchinson.
President Roosevelt is credited
with a desire to succeed Senator
Platt as senator from New York
when his term as president expires.
Miscellaneous.
Five passengers were killed and 20
others injured in a collision between
regular train and military
special on the Boston G. Maine rail
road at Lansingburg, N. Y, recently.
Gen. Davis, judge advocate general
OF the army, has informed the acting
secretary of war that there is no law
fforbiding the use of the flag of the
United States for advertising pur-
poses.
A bulletin issued by the geological
survey on the cement industry. while
admitting noticeable concentration
of interests. declares that good raw
material is 30 widely distributed that
a monopoly would be difficult to
maintain.
The president has decided to adopt
n new policy with regard to the ad-
Einistration of the Panama canal
zone and no successor to Gov. Ma
goon will be appointed. Affairs will
be administered by Chief Engineer
Stevens.
Announcement has been made at
the White house that unless extra
ordinary conditions arise no session
of congress will be called to deal with
the Cuban question.
Four men were killed and eight
injured near Baltimore and two are
dead and two others injured in Pueblo,
Col. on the same day recently by
the explosion of gas in blast furnaces.
Eight days of continuous rain in
the lower Mississippi valley has
caused heavy damage to the cotton
and corn crops.
The Kansas supreme court has
granted rehearing of the suit
brought by Chauncey Dewey ana
others to clear their names by having
the murder charge hanging over them
alleging the killing of the Berry fam,
lily In Rawlins county finally dis
Dhissed.
In a desperate effort to break jai,
William O'Brien was shot and killed
by the sheriff's 13-year-old son at Ma.
con. Mo Two prisoners had felled the
sheriff with a club when the boy ap
peared with a Winchester rifle ana
shot one of them, the other escaped.
In the United States circuit court
at st. Louis a jury decided that
George A. Kimmel a former banker
of Arkansas City, Kan, was dead and
gave judgment, against the New York
Life Insurance company for the
amount of his insurance with interest
aggregating sS,915.50.
A modus vivendi has been reached
between Great Britain and the United
States relative to the Newfoundland
fisheries
According to a bulletin of the de-
partment of commerce and labor the
foreign copmerce of Cuba aggregates
more than s20O,000.c00 per annum.
The Agar Packing company of Des
Moines, Ia, has served notice of a
suit for 100000 damages against the
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific rail
road company on the ground that it