The Glenwood post., 1906-01-13
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS

has elected Judge 4. H. Paynter
United States senator to succeed j. C.
S. Blackburn.
Recently five and three fourths miles
of rails were laid on the Cape-to- Cairo
railway in twelve hours, this constitut-
ing worlds record.
Postmaster General Cortelyou has
approved recommendation for the
use by rural carriers of automobiles in
serving their routes.
An Atlanta dispatch says that the
Southern railway has just placed an
order for S,729 freight cars, involving
an outlay of more than $5.000,O00.
Napoleon Lajoie has signed con-
tract to manage and captain and play
second base for the Cleveland Ameri-
can league for the season of 1906.
Judge c. C. Goodwin. the Utah pio-
ueer newspaper man, has resumed
taily newspaper work as editor-in-
chief of the Salt Lake Evening Tele-
gram.
William ]. Bryan has given a prize
to Bowdoin College for the best essay
discussing the principles of free gov
ernment. 1t is called the Philo Sher-
man Bennett prize.
Three Chinese implicated in the as
sassination of American missionaries
at Lienchou were executed in the
premises of the joint commission on
December 7th, and many others were
punished.
Yellow fever has disappeared from
Havana. Since the first appearance of
the disease in October there have been
ci iyt 90 fwpntv.thraa of which
resulted fatally and forty-six of which
were discharged cured.
In test run by Baltimore & Ohio
special train from Garrett to Chicago
Junction, Ohio, a speed of nearly 100
miles an hour was reached at several
points, the whole run of 12S miles
being made in 1876 minutes.
Isaac Saylor, his daughter. Mrs.
Peter Martin and her five children
were burned to death on the Sth inst,
at their home in Pleasantview, Juan
ita county, Pennsylvania, in a fire
which destroyed their home.
A Chicago dispatch says that Rev.
George d. Rogers, pastor of the First
Baptist church of Highland Park, near
Fort Sheridan, has declared himself
without reserve in favor of the re-es.
tablishment of the army canteen.
w. F. Scott. state game warden of
Montana, and president of the National
Association of Game and Fish War
dens and Commissioners, has called q
meeting of that organization to take
place in st. Paul January 25th and
9th.
Pat Grove was arraigned in the Dis
triet Court at Omaha on the 9Th inst.
in charge of robbing e. A. Cudahy
of $4,000 in the kidnapping case. He
pleaded not guilty and his trial was
set for February 7th. His bond was
fixed at $1,000.
Near Crane, Missouri, while railway
laborers were thawing out dynamite,
the explosive caught fire. In att.mpt-
ing to save it one of the men kicked
the dynamite and 1t exploded. William
McNeal and Joe Kepoe We're killed
and several others injured.
Jack Goff, who was President Roose-
velt's guide during his Colorado hunt
ing trip last spring, has had a serious
encounter with two mountain lions in
Yellowstone park. He says he was
not seriously injured but thinks he
was lucky to escape with his life.
At San Francisco, January Sth. the
Union labor party took charge of the
municipal administration. All of the
incoming officials were heartily
greeted by their predecessors and ini-
tiated into the duties connected with
the various offices which they will
occupy.
Local owners of claims in the
Copper Mountain district have turned
tha pfFo Of 10 Nouy Work
dicate to bond and lease some of the
properties. Samples of ore taken to
| New York ran over 100000 in gold to
! the ton and the New Workers are said
| to be very anxious to obtain an inter-
| est in the properties.
Secretary Bonaparte has written a
| letter of reprimand to Commander
| Lucien Young in connection with the
boiler explosion on the gunboat Ben
nington. The reprimand is somewhat
] mild in tone and the letter is not alto
| gether uncomplimentary to Comman-
der Young who, it is said, may con-
! sent to its publication.
From advance sheets of the Official
| Catholic Directory, published in Mil
| waukee, it is found that the total
Catholic population of the United
| States is 12,651,944, an increase of
| 1S9,151 over the previous year. The
total number of Catholic priests, in
cluding seculars and regulars, is A.
4S4, an increase of 627.
All power of control in the Chicago
| National and the Home Savings bank,
formerly controlled by John r. Walsh,
has passed from the stockholders to
| the presidents of six other Chicago
banks who form the committee that
has in charge the liquidation of the as
sets of the two banks. Stockholders
of both banks will investigate their
management.
| 1t is announced from Ardmore, I.
| T., that the Rough Riders will send to
Miss Alice Roosevelt, on the occasion
| of her marriage to Congressman Long
| worth next month, handsome pres
ent. United States Marshal Colbert,
| secretary of the Rough Riders Asso-
| citation, who is behind the movement,