The Glenwood post., 1907-07-06

sengers went over an embankni@nt 40
feet high and landed in % feet Of
water near Ortonville, Minn. One
others escaped unhurt.
One whole block Immediately ad-
joining the exposition grounds at
jamestown, Va, was swept by fire
recently and number of frame ho-
tells and restaurants destroyed. The
loss was estimated at $500 900.
At joint meeting of the Musko-
gee. J. T., Commercial club and the
| executive committee of the Trans
Mississippi congress resolutions were
| adopted favoring Kansas City as the
place for the next republican nation
al convention.
A temporary restraining order has
been granted in ST. Louis prohibiting
| the state board of railroad and ware
| house commissioners from enforcing
| the law regarding the inspection and
weighing of grain outside of public
elevators.
While on the way to attend the
commencement exercises at Yale an
automobile containing four passengers
plunged off bridge d. l.. Oliver, Il
student, was killed and the other oc-
cupants seriously injured.
For the eighth time the Cornell
crew succeeded in winning the eight
cared race at Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
Columbia was second and the United
States Naval academy third.
The premature explosion of box
of dynamite near Tola, Charlotte
county, Va, killed eight persons and
| injured six others.
At New London. Conn. Harvard
won the cight-oared freshman race by
close margin. while Yale won the
| varsity four cared race by ten
lengths.
At Findlay, Ohio. the jury in the
trial of the Standard Oil company on
charge of violating the state anti
trust law disagreed and were dis.
charged.
The pension department will urge
congress at it's next session to equal
ize the pensions of soldiers willows
on basis of $l2.
The beard of police commissioners
| of San Francisco has denied permis'
offices in that city.
Judge Lands, in the federal court
at Chicago. has refused the request
of the attorneys for John d. Rookie
feller for the withdrawal of the sub
poena recently issued for their client.
A Russo-Italian commercial treaty
has been signed at St. Petersburg.
Judge Chytraus. of Chicago, has de
clared the law passed by the last
legislature prohibiting the sale of
| cigarettes in Illinois invalel.
According to the verdict of jury
in the federal court at Fort Dodge,
Iowa, grain transactions on boards OF
trade are gambling and debts thus
contracted can not be collected.
Yale defeated Harvard in the an
nual varsity eiSht-oared race at New
London, Conn. by scant beats
boats length before the largest crowd
that ever witnessed a race on the
Thames river The time was 2l:l0.
r. II. Hartman, the railroad mag
nate, was arrested DUNG the Yale
Harvard boat race at New London,
Conn, and confined on revenue cut
ter for violating the rules of the
course.
All Of the mail carriers of Butte,
Mont, have gone on strike, declaring
that they could not live on the salaries
| paid at present by the government.
| Upon invitation OF President Diaz,
Secretary of State Root will visit
Mexico the later part of the summer
| In the United States district court
at Chicago Judge Lands overruled
the motion of the Standard Oil COM
pany for new trial of the case in
which they were recently convicted
of rebating.
| The sentencing of Mayor Schmtz
of San Francisco, convicted of extor-
ton, has been postponed by Judge
Dunno, until July 8. Schmitz must
remain in Jail.
An outbreak of Apache Indians IS
feared at Fort Mcdowell, Ariz.. as
the result of the killing of an Indian
by a sub-agent there and troops have
been ordered to be in readiness.
The circulation of national bank
notes at the close of the fiscal year
was SGO3, 7SS,G09, which was the
greatest amount outstanding in the
| history of the government
Four hundred journeymen plumbers
of St. Louis are on a strike, demand
| ing an increase in wages from S. to
| Sc per day.
The United States treasury will be-
| gin at once carrying into effect the