The Globe-republican., 1909-02-18
Forts Riley and Leavenwortk In
Kansas are to be equipped with wire

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Kansas are to be equipped with wire
less service at once.
The 1909 schedule of the Western
Baseball league was adopted at meet
ing at Lincoln, Neb. There will be 154
games and the season will open April
20 and close September %.
The National Civic Federation has
announced the appointment of com.
mittee which will attempt to organize
a council Of 100 representative men
in each state to secure more uniform
state legislation. John Hays Ham
mond is chairman.
Three men recently held up Den.
yer & Rio Grande passenger train
near Denver and robbed the mail car
of registered mail valued at $4,000.
So far the authorities have no tangible
clew to the robbers.
Many prominent New York people
have attached their names to a call
for a national Lincoln conference on
the negro question.
While blowing through heavy snow
drifts at Baxter Pass on the Unitah
railroad in Colorado, an engine and
snow pillow plunged over a 300-foot
precipice. The engineer was the only
one killed.
Graft to the extent Of 81 100000 has
been discovered in the quartermas-
ters department of the Russian army.
Fire at Buffalo, N. Y, destroyed the
produce exchange and 20 commission
houses. The loss is about $225,0O0
Fire at Kansas City destroyed the
retail store of T. M James & Sons
and the Kansas City Mantel company,
causing loss of $175,000.
A bill has been introduced in the
Cuban senate to annul the orders Of
the American military authorities
abolishing the lottery.
An auction of white men out Of
work was held in the Parkside Pres
byterian church in Flatbush, N. Y,
and served to get jobs for number
of idle men.
A series of attacks upon women and
girls in Berlin has caused panic
among the female population. Three
women were stabbed with sharp in
strument, one of the victims bleeding
to death
a loss of several hundred thousand
dollars is indicated by the failure at
Cleveland, o., of the brokerage firm
of Lamprecht Bros. & Co.
Martin Oberman of Chicago became
suddenly insane on a passenger train
near Berwick, Ia, and cut and slashed
three men, one perhaps fatally, be-
fore he was overpowered.
The worst snow blockade in sew.
eral years in western Nebraska has
been overcome after 4S hours Of
strenuous labor by the railroads.
The official statement of Senator
Stephenson, filed with the secretary
of state of Wisconsin, shows that Mr..
Stephenson paid $1O7,793 for his nomi-
nation in the senatorial primary.
The American Society of Equity has
transmitted to congress paper
showing that it costs farmer $1.19
bushel to raise wheat. The society
believes that the minimum price of
wheat on the farm should be s1.25 a
bushel.
FIFTEEN students of William Jewell
college at Liberty, Mo-, are down with
the smallpox and the school has been
compelled to close. Among the af
hicted is a son of President Greene.
Outgoing trains are guarded to keep
the students from leaving the town.
The Masonic grand lodges of Okla
homa and Indian territory have been
merged under the name of the Okla
homa Grand Lodge of Masons. G.. s.
Muldrow of Tishomingo was elected
grand master of the new grand lodge.
A collision in the NJ, K. & T. rail
road yards at Muskogee, Ok, caused
the death of one man, the serious in
jury of two others and a fire loss of
100000.
Mrs. Anna l.. Horsefield, 80 years
old, lost her life in a fire at Kansas
City which destroyed business block
occupied by three stores. After es-
Gaping Mrs. Horsefield returned to her
room for her trunk and was overcome
by the flames.
Twenty thousand wild elk are said
to be starving in Jackson Hole, Wyo.
President-elect Taft was entertained
at New Orleans with a Creole dinner.
One thousand persons contributed $25
each for seat at the banquet board.
Cardinal Gibbons of Baltimore pro-
nounced an invocation and introduced
Mr. Taft to the assembled guests.
The Australian steamer Penguin
was recently wrecked off Cape Terra
whit and CT persons persisted.
Personal.
e. G. Cooley has resigned as super
intendent of the Chicago public school