The Glenwood post., 1907-05-04
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Nest Important Happenings Of the
Past Seven Days.
lntereating Items Gathered from ALI
parts of the World Condensed
Into Small Space for tho
Beueft OF Our Readers.
Personal.

John Mitchell, president of the
United Mine Workers. has submitted
to an operation which is declared to
is anticipated.
Secretary Taft in speech at a ban
Quet in Cincinnati expressed the belief
that the Panama canal would be COM
pleted in eight years.
John Noble of Oklahoma City was
found guilty of murder and his punish
ment fixed at life Imprisonment in the
the Kansas penitentiary
A. f. Stilwell and party of 80
capitalists who took trip over the
lines of the Orient railroad in Mexico
have returned.
Rumors are in circulation in Wash
ington that Secretary Loeb is to leave
the president and take the presi-
dency of the Washington Railway and
Electric company.
Senator Penrose, of Pennsylvania,
was a recent caller at the white
house. This is his first visit to the
president since the publication of the
alleged conspiracy against Mr.. Roose-
welt.
Rev John Fulton, editor of the
Church Standard, an Episcopalian
publication, is dead in Philadelphia.
His early work was done in ST.
Louis
John Mitchell, president OF the
United Mine Workers, is i'll at the
home of friend in Chicago. His
illness is not regarded as serious ct
present
James Bartlett Hammond inventor
of the typewriter bearing his name,
has lost his mind and is confined to
Bellevue hospital at New York for
observation
Wolfman C. Fuchs, an expert in the
use of the X-ray, is dead in Chicago
of cancer contracted from coming in
to contact with the X-ray apparatus,
Dennis Kearney, the Sand Lot
Orator. who led the agitation against
the Chinese in San Francisco in the
early seventies, is dead at his home
in Alameda, Cal.
Harry S. New, acting chairman Of
the republican national committee,
was in conference with President
Roosevelt at the White house re-
Gently.
Mrs. Lawson Sheldon, mother OF
Gov. George l.. Sheldon, of Nebraska,
is dead at her home in Nehawka.
She was 70 years old. y-'.si -...-.-- --
Prof. Ritter Won Mosetis- Moorhof
the famous Austrian surgeon and in
troducer of iodoform, was recently
drowned in the Danube river.
Victor H. Olmsted, an employe OF
the agricultural department. has gone
to Cuba to supervise the taking of a
census of the island.
Brig. Gen. John w. Buff has been
placed on the army retired list He
was in command of the Department
of the Dakotas with headquarters N
St Paul.
Frederick l. Allen. commissioner of
patents, has rendered his resignation
to President Roosevelt to take effect
June /.
Alan R. Hawley made a balloon as
cention at St Louis and landed safely
at Carrollton, III. 67 miles away
Miscellaneous.
In an explosion in mine at Black
Diamond, Wash, four men We're
killed, five fatally and Il seriously
injured
A reunion of all the descendants OF
the signers of the declaration of indie
pendence is planed for the James
town exposition on July next.
A treaty of peace has been signed
between Nicaragua and Salvador at
Amapala, Honduras.
The Illinois legislature has passed a
bill forbidding the sale of Intoxicating
liquors within II miles of military
or naval reservation.
The Wisconsin freight depot at
Minneapolis was recently totally de
stroyed by fire causing loss OF
400, 600.
For the first time in many years
the president and his entire cabinet
were recently absent from the nation
al capital
Commander Robert f. Peary. wha
penetrated to within ia miles of the
north pole or his last trip, may be
Obliged to abandon his second dash
which he planned this summer. for
lack of 100000 to finance the expe-
dition
This country consumes over 6OOO,-
100000 pounds of sugar per annum or
rs pounds for each person, but one
fifth of which is produced at home.
treaty of arbitration has been
signed between Portugal and Denmark
and their differences will be hereafter
submitted to The Hague tribunal
The 100000 Masonic temple at South
McAlester, |. T.. was recently dedi-
Gated with elaborate ceremony.
The Journeay and Burnham com