The Glenwood post., 1909-03-27
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"cS ENN NEWS.
The National Corn Exposition has
selected December 9Th to 18th as the
dates for the National Corn exposi-
ton Of 1909 1t will be held at Omaha
That Goose island, lying in the Mis-
souri, river between Kansas City, Mo-,
AMI Kansas City, Kan, belongs to the
stAee Of Kansas is the decision of the
Supreme Court of the United States
The recent blowing up of the C9ur
d'Alene powder works, near Wallace,
Idaho, by which three men were killed
and one seriously injured, is believed
by the company to have been the work
of an assassin.
Winnipeg, Manitoba, has decided to
have worlds exposition in 1912. A
committee of citizens sent to ST. Louis
Chicago, Seattle and Portland report
ed favorably on the project and it was
decided to raise a fund of 100000
for it.
A report emanating from Boston
that Mrs. Katherine Tingley, head of
the Theosophical Institute on Point
Iona, near San Diego, Cal, was to
make her future home in the Massa-
chusetts metropolis. has been denied
by Mrs. Tingley.
The cloud upon the title of Gov
Charles S. Deneen of Illinois to sue
ceed himself was removed when the
subernatorial contest brought by Ad
lai e. Stevenson was finally disposed
. of by the Legislature in joint session
In fn yOr of tho
1t is stated that $500 900 will be
expended this season for improve
ments on the Missouri Pacific railroad
between Kansas City and Pueblo, the
work being in line with the general i'm
provement of Gould roads looking to
their final extension to the coast.
Several survivors OF the Fifteenth
Pennsylvania Volunteer cavalry, who
are now living in Los Angeles, Cal,
haye passed resolutions on the death
en-. William ]. Palmer, who was
commander of the regiment during the
Civil War.
Under the auspices of the Aero Club
of Seattle, Henry H. Clayton of the
Blue Hill observatory, will undertake a
balloon voyage across the breadth of
the United States. He believes that
favorable air currents will be found at
the height of about two miles.
c. l.. Mayhew, in Jail at Boulder,
Colo, charged with the murder of
William Collier, near Longmont, last
January, hanged himself on the 21st
/ inst. In the corridor of the jail and was
Il
that he made full confession ten days
previous to his suicide.
The will of the late Gen. William J.
Palmer OF Colorado Springs gives the
bulk of his property, estimated in the
neighborhood of $5,0O00OO, to his
three daughters. Legacies to other rel
atives and friends amount to $742,0OO
No public bequests are made. the gen.
eral having attended to public and
charitable benefactions before his
death.
Acting Governor May vetoed the bill
passed by the Washington Legislature
authorized the issuance by the state
board of hotels OF so rooms or more in
first-class cities, licenses to sell intox
icants and liquors with meals on Sun
day. The governor expressed the view
that the bill was unjustly discriminat
A}between cities and classes. mans
thirst having nothing to do with the
81 Of the town. -.
Bills passed by the Arizona Legis-
lature, which has Just adjourned, in
clude those for the creation of rail
road commission; territorial good
roads department; local option by
majority vote, municipalities to have
separate vote il demanded; creating
the office of territorial historian: ex-
!. empting new railroads from taxation
4 If notice be filed in fifteen days. All
railroad rate Legislation failed. Woman
suffrage. was defeated as was the en-
ployers' liability bill urged by the
unions, but vetoed by the governor as
leveled only against corporations as
employers The separate negro school
bill was passed over the governors
veto.