The Glenwood post., 1908-08-15
Sitter toucned 51& Tuesday, the
lowest since April, 1903

Silter toucned 51% Tuesday, the
lowest since April 1903.
Judge Sealbury has announced his
withdrawal from the Independence
party.
Reports indicate that Charles s.
Deneen leads Richard Yates by 1l,O0O
as the choice of the Illinois primaries
for governor
The Pope on the Sth inst ISSUED
document on the occasion of his priest
hood jubilee, addressed to the clergy
at-large in which he exhorts the eccles-
iastics to lead holy life and be an ex-
ample in this regard to others.
That the political situation now de-
veloling in Turkey will be productive
of genuine ard lasting reform. is the
| belief of Rev. DR.. James l.. Barton,
secretary of the American board of
| commissioners of foreign missions,
who has Just return ed to Boston from
| abroad and lived in Turkey for seven
years.
At Lexington, Kentucky, Friday,
Barney Oldfield, the automobile rae.
er, almost had his career terminated
when, while making fast mile, a tire
exploded and hurled Oldfield through
a fence. lie was not hurt aside from
some bruises. The accident was kept
quiet. Oldfield went half mile in
forty-nine seconds.
The Aerial Navigation Company of
Boston, to do freight and passenger
business by airship between Boston,
New York and other points, was in
| TrrnErnIal of S,t, Low hA
capital stock being $4,000 The in
corporators are named as H. H. Bond,
c. H. Bond of Boston and James l..
Bruce of Waltham.
King Frederick of Denmark and
| Queen Louise took luncheon Friday at
Copenhagen, with party of 400 Dan
| ish-Americans. Colonel Listoe of New
York, in a speech conveyed President
Roosevelts greetings to the King,
who in a long and charming response
expressed his best wishes for Presi-
| dent Roosevelt and the United States.
Dropping through the air 800 feet at
Abbottsford Wisconsin, when the rope
attached to her parachute snapped.
Mrs Eva Jones, a woman balloonist
for carnival company, still lives. The
| branches of a tree broke the fall The
woman was rendered unconscious and
suffered from several broken ribs and
was otherwise internally injured, but
will recover.
Harriman's trip across Nebraska
had one immediate result and that is
| the order that has gone forth from the
Union Pacific headquarters to proceed
| at once with the completion of the dou-
| Bile track on the main line of the Union
Pacific across the state of Nebraska.
The first work to be completed will be
the double track from Omaha to Grand
| Island.
A Hong Kong dispatch says that the
government has decided to dredge the
present typhoon shelter and to make
another one in west harbor, at cost
of S1.5O0,O00. To provide revenues for
this work merchant ships will be
taxed 2 cents on every registered ton.
| 1t is now estimated that the number of
lives lost in the late typhoon were un-
| der 1000.
The Prussan minister of education
! has arranged with the president of
the Carnegie institute to send school
principal and six teachers to the United
states under the exchange of teachers
plan. They will be assigned to New
| York Boston, Chicago, New Haven,
! Worcester and Exeter. Twelve teach
| ers Will be sent to Germany from the
United States, but their posts have not
yet been assigned.
General William Booth, commander
in-chief of the Salvataion Army, sailed
from London on the Sth inst for Cape
town, on a three months tour of
South Africa. The aged Salvationist
way points, which can be reached
only by driving for many days in bul,
lock wagons. While in Rhodesia the
general hopes to conclude arrange
ments for colonizing that country by
Salyationists on large scale.
The Anglers Association of the ST.
Lawrence, composed of prominent
sportsmen of the United States and
Canada. met at Gananoque, Ontario,
on the 9Th inst, and decided
to take steps to secure a uniform
close season for bass, muska.
lunge and pickerel throughout the CON
tinent. President Jordan of Leland
Stanford university and Commissioner
S T. Bastedo of Canada, were appoint.
ed to bring the matter before their re.
spective governments. A committee
, was also named to consider the matter
of prohibiting the sale of black bass
in New York state.