The Glenwood post., 1907-04-13
news OF laE WEEK
uost Important Happenings Ct tbs
Past Seven Days.
Interesting Items Gath ct ed from Al,
parts of the World Condemned
Into Small Space tor the
Benent of Our Readers.
Personal.

Gen. Manuel LiZadoro Barrillas ex
president of Guatemala was assassi-
mated in street car at City of Mex
lea recently.
Walter Ferguson representative
Kansas died recently at his home in
Valley Falls.
Stanford Newell eX-minister to the
Netherlands died recently at his
home in St. Paul, Nina.
Judge Josiah Turner OF Michigan
is dead at the age of 90 years.
oJohn F. Stevens, retiring chief en-
gineer of the isthmian canal, predicts
that the canal will be opened in Jan
uary 1915.
Private advices from Venezuela
say that President Castro has suffered
a relapse,
Postmaster General Meyer has an
nounced the appointment o. DR.. John
A. Holmes as his private secretary.
Secretary Taft held long confer
ence while at Panama with President
Amidor and Secretary of State Arias.
regarding various complaints of the
Panama republic.
Judge Jacob W. Wilkins, for IS
years a member of the supreme court
of Illinois, is dead at his home in
Danville, aged 20 years.
Commander Robert r. Peary has Sc
cured the necessary funds for another
expedition to the far North. His YES
sci, the Roosevelt is nearly ready. and
he expects to set out the last of June.
M. Takahashi, the Japanese finan
cial agent, arrived in New York re-
Gently on his way to Japan from
Paris and London where he arranged
the big five percent loan for his
country.
Bishop James N Fitzgerald, of the
NJ E. church, who with his family,
has been on tour of the world, died
recently of pleurisy at IIongkong,
China. His home was in st. Louis.
Judge II. f. Thompson, of Mime
apolis, Kan, a prominent attorney,
is dead at his home of paralysis.
The congress of the Christian
church recently held in Cincinnati
of Kansas City, Mo-, president, and
,6ev Wallace C. Payne, of Lawrence,
NEan.; secretary.
Martin Flores, who came from San
Antonio. Tex. has been arrested in
New York charged with making
threats against the president. He
was sent to Bellevue hospital
Miscellaneous.
The strike of the St Louis Brewery
Tho at
ters in dispute were compromised.
For the first time in the history of
Illinois woman was elected justice
of the peace in Evanston, the fashion,
able Chicago ssburb at the recent
election.
In recent New York tenement fire
Mrs. Sotupo and her four children met
death by suffocation.
The Nebraska Legislature has adopt
ed a resolution endorsing the posi-
tion of President Roosevelt in his
controversy with E. II Hartman.
Puerto Cortez and Ceiba two Hon
duran cities have been captured by
the Nicaraguan forces.
The United States is now importing
more than $1,000,000 worth of cocoa
per month, while importations of cof-
fee and tea are declining.
Representatives from all over the
world are attending the 7%'h general
conference of the Mormon church at
Salt Lake. Utah.
The department of the interior is
to bring suit at once against the
Southern Pacific railroad to cancel
Sall patents to land in the White
LIorse Mining district of Nevada, is
sued to the company, on the ground
that the land was agricultural
The sale of the bank at Rslfield,
Kan, was recently wrecked by rob-
bers. But little money was secured
by the cracksmen.
Only three minutes were consumed
at Cincinnati recently, in indicting
Bartholomew Cavagna, former teller
of the First National bank, accept
ing plea of guilty of embezzlement
and sentencing him to six years in
the penitentiary.
Because Emperor William disap-
proves the movement to hold
worlds exposition in Berlin during
1913 has been abandoned.
By a premature explosion N the
Black Diamond mine at Joplin. Mo,
two miners were instantly killed.
Announcement has been made at
Carnegie Institute at Pittsburg, Pa
Of another sifi to the endowment
fund by the founder amounting to
$6,0O0,O0O
Gov. Folk of Missouri has com
muted the sentence of Mrs. Aggie
Myers who was to be hanged for the
murder of her husband in Kansas
City, to lift Imprisonment The same
action was also taken in the case OF
Frank Hoffman. her accomplice.
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