The Glenwood post., 1908-06-20

ne Two Thousand emplOyeS OF tne
American Waltham Watch Company's
factory at Waltham, were notified
Monday that the works will be shut
down on June 26th until August 4th.
The factory has been running on short
time for several months.
Miss Anna Spreck, a well-known
mountain climber, will leave New
York in two weeks for Peru to make
another attempt to reach the summit
of Mount Huascaran, which she be-
lieves is the highest peak in the west
ern hemisphere.
The National Grand Lodge, 1nde-
pendent Order of Good Templars, at
its session in Washington City re-
elected Grand Chief Templar George F.
CotterilI of Seattle. Mrs Emily Peters
of Seattle was chosen grand secretary
of juvenile work.
The United Confederate Veterans at
their annual convention in Birming-
ingham, Alabama, selected Memphis
as the place for their next reunion
and elected General Clement A Evans
of Georgia as commander-in-chief to
succeed the late Stephen d. Lee.
Frederick Arthur Stanley, earl of
Derby, governor general of Canada in
1888, died in London June 14th
aged sixty-seven. He had been lord OF
the admiralty secretary of war, secre-
tary for the colonies and president OF
the board of trade.
The campanile of Santo Stefano
church in Venice, a Gothic structure
of the fourteenth century, which con-
tains the tomb of the Doge francesca
Morosini threatens to fall like the
campanile of st. Marks. which col
lapsed in 1902. The qestion of demol-
ishing it is under consideration.
NJ. Rene Quinton, well known
French biologist, has offered a prize
of 10000 francs for the first aviator
who once up in the air in
an aeroplane shall stop his mo-
tor and remain up five min
utes by utilizing solely the force of the
wind and without descending more
than fifty meters.
The International Chess Masters
tourney at Prague. ended today in a
tie between Schlechter and Buras, who
will decide the first and second prizes.
Vidmar won third prize; Rubenstein,
fourth; Teichmann, fifth; Maroczy,
sixth; Leonhardt, seventh; Marshall,
eighth; Salwe, ninth, and Janowski,
tenth
John Hays Hammond, who has an
nounced his candidacy for the Repub-
lican vice presidential nomination, was
registered as a voter at Gloucester,
Massachusetts, on the 10th inst. He
answered the formal questions, proved
his ability to read a selection from
the constitution of the United States,
and then took the necessary oath.
The Persian Assembly asked the
Shah today to recall the officials ar
bitrarily eXiled and give them a free
trial. If they are proved to be traitors
and conspirators they should be pun
ished according to law. The Shah re-
fused. He intends to arrest several
others. and threatens to blow up the
city if an attempt at resistance is
made.
No persons over fifty years of age
will be admitted hereafter to teaching
positions in the Chicago public schools.
The board of education made this rul-
ing by vote of II to 4. Incidentally
the trustees gave their official con-
firmation to the statement of the su-
perintendent's office that this age
limit appears to be the point at which
the mental and physical vigor of those
who come to us has begun to decline"
According to the Iron and Steel
Trades Journal, there has recently
been effected a great combination in
the British steel trade, with a capacity
of 1915, 100000 The main object OF
the combination is said to be to Sc
cure control of the international ex-
port trade, and similar organizations
in America and on the continent are
said to be supporting the British am
algamation.
In the federal court at Rochester,
New York, on the 18th instant, the
Standard Oil Company was found
guilty of violation of the interstate
commerce law in accepting the con-
cession from the filed tariff on ship
ments of oil from Olean, New York, to
Rutland and Bellows Falls, Vermont.
There were forty copnts in the indict-
ment, each representing action on Il
car of OIL The maximum fine on each
count is $4,000, or total for the whole
OF the shipment of sS00,QO0.
The Lusitana's last passage from
Daunt's Rock to Sandy Hook light
house was made in 4 days, 20 hours and
minutes, which cuts seven minutes !
off the record for the ia st trip across
the Atlantic by the long course, made |
by her sister ship. the Mauretania The
Lusitania's best previous record for the |
course was days, 20 hours and 22 |
minutes. The Lusitania also has the |
record for the longest days run, hav-
ing from noon Sunday to noon Monday |
made GAL knots, beating the Maureta- |
MAS best run by six knots.