The Glenwood post., 1907-08-10


nese.
The Interstate Commerce commits
sion has ordered the Rock Island
railway to reduce their rates on
wheat and corn from Oklahoma tc
Galveston, Texas, for export.
At Findlay. Ohio. the Jury in the
trial of the Standard Oil company OF
charge of violating the state anti
trust law disagreed and were dis
charged.
Chester B. Runyan paying teller, OF
the Windsor Trust company of New
York, has disappeared with $So,315 OF
the company's funds. The directors
made good the loss.
By the explosion OF case of pow,
der on the battleship Georgia eight
men were killed and 13 injured. How
the powder became ignited is not
known.
The second battleship of the Dread
naught class has been launched il
England.
New York has inaugurated its sys
TEN of continuous sessions Of police
court day and night.
The license of the Southern rail
way to do business in Alabama has
been revoked for alleged violation OF
state law in taking case from
the state courts to the federal courts
The Arab chiefs have inaugurated
a holy war in Casa Blanca, Morocco
Several French and Spanish residents
have been killed. A French warship
mand reparation. ~~--
Herbert Tucker, convict from
Edwards county, was killed by fall
iEs from ladder at the Kansas pen
itentiary at Lansing recently
According to official reports there
were 120 casualties among the ko
reans as a result of the riots grow
ing out of the disarmament of the
Korean army
The primary election for senator in
Mississippi resulted in the selection
of John Sharpe Williams over Gov
Vardaman.
AS the result Of the explosion OF
a locomotive boiler on the Burlington
railroad near Breckenridge. Mo.
three men were killed outright and
fourth was fatally injured.
Large quantities of merchandise
ammunition and supplies of every de
scription for use of the army in the
Philippines are being forwarded from
San Francisco.
The government crop report shows
the condition of cotton on July q
to have been 15 per cent.
Hubert Knipe, resident of Leav
enworth, Kan, since 1856, is dead ir
Three men were killed and five
others wounded by the explosion Of
a gun on board a French training
ship while at target practice at Cour
onne.
In Boston three Cinnamon were
killed and seven wounded by theil
visiting countrymen from New York
The attack was the outcome of {
long feud between secret societies.
More than 1000 persons were
killed in the coal mines of Pennsyl
vania during 1906.
The grand jury at Clinton, Ill.
which has been investigating the
death of Mrs. Pet Magill, the firs
wife of Fred Magill, has returned in
dictments against Magill and hi:
present wife for murder.
William H. Powell, wife and sor
and Mrs. ]. F. Stevens and baby
| were drowned recently by the cap
sizing of pleasure launch in the Des
Moines river near Ottumwa, la.
Judge Lands in the United State.
district court at Chicago, imposed {
fine of $29 100000 against the Stand
ard Oil company for accepting rebate.
on oil shipments.
All trainmen belonging to the
the Colorado & Southern railway, have
been called to strike in sympathy witt
the switchmen, who are asking an in
crease of wages.
! One hundred and fifty furnace mer
employed at the Lanyon Zinc work.
at La Harpe, Kan. went on strike
demanding an increase of so cents pei
day.
Gov. Hoch has appointed ex-Sen
ator A. W. Benson to the vacancy or
the Kansas supreme court bench
caused by the death of Justice A. l.
Green.
Prince vi and Mr.. Sui, the two
Korean delegates who were refused
admission to The Hague peace con
| ference, have arrived in New York
| and will endeavor to induce the
| American government to intervene ir
| Korean affairs.
Preparations will commence at once
for the prosecution of the Chicago &
Alton railroad company on the charge
Of granting rebates to the STANDARD
Oil company.
Gov. Hoch Of Kansas, has sent a let
| ter to each of the governors west O