The Glenwood post., 1909-03-27

Order OF the Grand Cross of Alexander
Nepsky upon President Diaz. The or
DER Is one of the highest within the
gift OF the Russian sovereign.
Arrangements have been completed
under which the rifle shooting tourna.
ment which will be held at Camp
Perry, Ohio, next August, will be the
greatest shooting event which this
country has ever seen.
The Panama libel cases against the
Press Publishing Company and Caleb
van Hamm, one of the editors of the
World, will not be dropped SO long as
lie is district attorney, is the statement
made by United States Attorney Stim-
son in New York.
= Charles Stintson.- a pupil at the
White school in Indianapolis, died
few days since as the result of hazing
by fellow students He was hung up
by the ankles and left hanging so long
that he died few hours after being
taken down.
Prince Henry of Prussia, brother of
Emperor William, in an illustrated
lecture before the Aero club at Kiel
concerning his five-hour voyage in the
Zeppelin airship of October 27th last,
expressed himself as skeptical OF the
usefulness of air craft in the present
state Of development for war purposes.
The car which will act as pathfinder
Tor the international transcontinental
automobile contest for the NJ Robert
Guggenheim trophy from New York
city to the Alaska Yukon-Pac Ex-
position. on June 1st, started for Seat
tie from the city hall in New York at
noon March goth.
Sixty thousand bushels of foreign
potatoes were landed at Philadelphia
March 18th by the steamship Buenos
Ayres from Glasgow and Liverpool.
The tubers came from England, Ireland
and Scotland and the shipment was
made possible by reason of the short
crop in the United States.
new worlds record in the running
high kick was made at the athletic
meet at st. Marks school at South
boro. Mass, on the 18th inst. by Har-
old Beebee of Maiden. He did 8 feet
1OA inches. The previous record was
feet 8 inches, held by C. C. Lee of
New Haven, Conn, made in 1887.
American Consul w. H. Bishop at
Palermo, Italy, has received letters
threatening his life and declaring that
the Malta will punish him even worse
than it. did Lieutenant Petrosino if he
continues to persecute Sicilian Grim
hn ricL a t,,
York.
The attempted insurrection in the
Santa Clara province of Cuba, in
which seven members of the rural
guard fed to the woods with their
arms and horses, proved a trivial af-
fair and has utterly collapsed. All
seven OF the men have surrendered
voluntarily.
Seven ocean liners which arrived in
New York on the 18th inst. brought to
America nearly 10000 immigrants.
making the arrivals for the day the
largest in the history of the port. with
perhaps single exception. The i'm
migration officers say that this year
is liable to break all records.
According to decision just handed
down by the Supreme Court of Vir-
ginia divorced woman cannot sue
for breach of promise or betrayal un-
der promise of marriage, it being held
that she is not an unmarried woman"
within the intent of the Virginia stat
ute.
Guilty of murder in the second de.
gree with twenty years Imprisonment
as the penalty was the verdict OF the
jury at Nashville, Tenn, Saturday In
the case against Col. Duncan b. Coop
er and his son. Robin Cooper. charged
with the murder of former United
States Senator F. w. Carmack
Prof. Frederick Starr, anthropologist
OF the University Of Chicago, is out
with another prediction that ex-Presi-
dent Roosevelt will not return from
Africa alive. He says: Mr.. Roose-
welt is over fifty and that is against
his going into the tropics. No man
can go into the tropics for the first
time at his age and expect to come
out alive"