The Glenwood post., 1907-01-12
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Most Important Happenings Of tie
Past Seven Days.
interesting Items Gathered from All
parts of the World Condemned
Into Small Space for the
DeAeAt of Our Readers.
PorA0AaL

Il P0F10Aa1.
Mrs. Aggie Myers under sentence to
be hanged for the murder of her hus-
band in Kansas City has been granted
another appeal to the supreme court
and Gov. Folk has granted 80 days
respite to Frank Hoffman, her alleged
accomplice.
George B. Cortelyou has announced
his retirement from the Craftsmanship
of the republican national committe.
Harry s. New will become acting
chairman.
D. R. Francis president of the st.
Louis worlds fair company has gone
: to Mexico to present to President
Diaz gold medal awarded him in
recognition of his services to the ex-
position company.
! Newton Youngblood, a 16-year-old
boy who killed his employer farmer
near Edmonds, Ok, when caught in
, the act of driving away with the lat
ter's team and buggy, has been ar
, rested at Anadarko, /. T., to which
point he had driven the team.
George L. Shredder, confidential
clerk, of Duke, Lemon & Co., a live
stock commission firm at the Kansas
/ City stock yards has been arrested on
charge of embezzlement.
! James McCrea, first vice president
of the Pennsylvania lines west Of
Pittsburg, has been elected president
of the Pennsylvania Railroad COM
pany to succeed the late A. ]. Cas-
satt.
William H. Mackey, jr.. has been
re-appointed to be United States mar
shal of Kansas.
Frederick McMasters, United States
consul at Zanzibar, has rendered his
{ resignation because of the small sal
ary attached to the office.
Prof. Otto Benndorf, the noted arch
! aeologist, is dead in Vienna
F. M. Robertson, of Wilson coun-
{ ty, Kansas, has been elected to fill
{ the vacancy caused by the death Of
State Senator S. S. Benedict.
Maj. Gen. Won Der Launitz, pre-
feet of police of st. Petersburg was
! s OF and instantly killed in the insti-
tute of experimental medicine. The
assassin was cut down and killed by
an officer
DR.. Joseph A. Aldrich, former sur
| geon in the United states army, is
dead at his home in Denver, aged
SO years.
Daniel Garman, who was engineer
/, of the train on which President Lin
! coin made his famous midnight jour-
ney from Harrisburg to Washington,
recently died at Lebanon, Pa.
Rev. John C. Brooks, youngest
brother of the late Phillips Brooks,
is dead in Paris.
George A. Murphy, of Muskogee. 1.
T., is to be the chief speaker at the
Kansas Day banquet at Topeka on
January 29.
E. w. Hastings, an actor of New
York, was killed recently in a wreck
of the overland limited train on the
Union Pacific in Nebraska.
ConKressional.
Prominent Cherokee women have
prepared memorial to congress ask
ing that body to set aside the decree
of the supreme court which abrogated
the rights of intermarried whites.
A bill has been introduced in the
senate to prohibit the sale Of lands in
, the government domain on which are
situated beds of coal and other miner
ais until such deposits are exhausted.
Mtsceilaneous.
| The Northern Pacific railway COM
pany has issued $95,O00,O0O of new
stock making total capitalization of
s25O, 100000.
| In the custer suit of the state of
Missouri against the Delmar Jockey
, club of st. Louis, writ of error to
the supreme court of the United States
, has been granted by Chief Justice
CAN'T.
|, The southern portion of Indiana is
! suffering from floods. Fifteen schools
In Gibson county alone were COM
PEELED to close on account of the high
! water.
, By direction Of the president. Sec
3 retary Hitchcock has issued an order
8 notifying registers of local land Of
i hcers to destroy all illegal enclosures
on public lands after April 1. next.
Andrew Carnegie has notified Secre-
/. tary Root of his intention to contri-
: butte $750,0O0 for the purpose of erect
I ing a building in Washington for the
! use of the bureau of American repub-
i lies.
!. Judge Garland, of the United States
). district court at Sioux Falls, S. d.,
g has rendered decision holding that
: the state board of railroad commits
sioners has jurisdiction over express
companies.
Fire at Almena, Kan, destroyed six
buildings and damaged others.
. c. G. Webster an Independent oil
8 refinsr of Humboldt, Kan, testified