The Glenwood post., 1907-03-23

Gov. Folk has announced his pur-
pose to call a special session of the
Missouri legislature to consider mat
ters which he considers essential and
which were not acted upon at the reg
ular session just closed.
President Roosevelt has appointed
a commission to consider comprehen
sion system for the development OF
water transportation as a means TO
assist the railroads to keep abreast OF
the business of the country.
The national Civic Federation which
called the trust conference at Chicago
in 1899 has announced its intention to
arrange for another in May
Business is being resumed at Gold
field, New, where mine operators and
business men had locked out members
Of Industrial Workers of the World
nearly all employees having withdrawn
from the organization.
The Oklahoma convention which
has been in session at Guthrie for ll5
days drafting constitution for the
new state has completed its work and
adjourned sine die.
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Consummated in Mexico was made
recently when the famous Cedros
hacienda comprising 1,715,0O0 acres
with all its live stock was transfer
red to the Continental Mexican Rub
ber company. The purchase price
was SS,OOO,0O0.
The claim agent of the Rock Island
railroad is in Mexico settling the
claims of the relatives of the 80
Mexican laborers killed in the col
lisiun at Noland, Kansas, in Janu-
ary
While the police were searchi""
the room occupied by a student
d Kh"rkavo Russia, bomb eNn'"de"
killing an officer. three po.,u.nem
and two civilians
The attorneys for Harry X. Thaw
sprung surprise on District Attor-
ney jerome recently by refusing to
cross-exam' any of the six alien
lists who testified for the state that
Thaw was sane when he killed Stan
ford White.
The supreme court of California
has denied the applications of Mayor
Schmitz and Abraham Ruef for writs
of hab b-as corpus.
The railroad committee OF the Ne
passage a bill cutting sleeping car
rates 33 1-3 per cent and express
charees 20 per cent.
The San Francisco board of educa-
tion has adopted resolutions resciud-
pupils in the public school
The suit of Frank Rockefeller,
brother of John D. Rockefeller. to re
cover s2G5, 900 invested in zinc mine
in Missouri has been dismissed in the
circuit court at st. Lous on a demurrer
by the defendant.
Panicky conditions reiened in Wall
street recently and prices of stocks
tumbled in one day from Is to 30
points. Call money was quoted at %
per cent. Frantic appeals were made
to the president and secretary of the
treasury to come to the rescue of the
railroads and spectators.
During the height of the flood at
Pittsburg fire broke out in the
burned itself out had destroyed %
business houses and residences.
The four railroad presidents who
We're to visit President Roosevelt and
confer with him regarding the gen
eral railroad situation of the country.
have decided not to go to Washing
ton.
During a sharp clash between mem
bers OF the senate committee which
is investigating the Brownsville af-
fray at Wash ngton it developed that
Senator Foraker is gathering evidence
at his own expense in defense of the
negro soldiers involved
'."he town of Majorsville, near
Wheeling. w. Va. consisting of GO
houses was entirely swept away in a
recent flood and every house destroyed.
The Harvard overseers have de-
cided that football under certain
restrictions will be played by the
university this year
The situation between the cattle
men and shoepmen of Wyoming has
reached a crucial stage and notices
nave Dttn pbSltu llal sec
ton ordering the herders to remove
their flocks from the country. The
shoepmen will resist.
One hundred and three bodies have
been recovered from the interior of
the battleship lena, which was re
Gently wrecked by the explosion of
a powder magazine at Toulon, France
Western PENNSYLVANIA and eastern
Ohio are suffering from the annual
spring flood
In the suit of Wichita, Kan. mer
chants against the Rock Island rail
road charging discrimination in rates,
Judge Pollock instructed the jury to
bring a verdict in favor of the rail
road.
The Kansas legislature has finally
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