The Glenwood post., 1910-10-01
GEN ERAL.

GENERAL.
AS result of eating toad stools in
mistake for mushrooms, two are dead
and two dying at Orange. N. j.
Gen. Charles R. Brayton, the blind
leader of the Rhode Island Republi-
cans, died at Providence, R. l., Friday
Mrs. Frances Victorit Sankey, wild
ow of Ira D. Sankey, the singing evan
gelist, died Sunday morning in Brook
lyn.
Forty-two persons were killed in an
interurban trolley wreck between
Bluffton and Fort Wayne, Ind.
Wednesday.
Three persons were killed and two
seriously injured at Gloucester, N. j.,
Sunday night when an electric train
struck an auto.
Two masked robbers invaded the
mail car of the Southern Pacific train
leaving New Orleans Monday, secured
patches of registered mail and es-
capped.
Three persons were killed and two
seriously injured at Gloucester, N. j.,
Sunday when an electric train on the
West Jersey railroad struck an auto
mobile.
There will be no shortage of money
this fall, anywhere in the United
States, according to the view of the
treasury department. The danger mark
is passed.
Packages of all American cigarettes
and tobaccos are being reduced in size
by the manufacturers to make up for
the increased revenue taxes imposed
by the tariff.
A man named Judy and a Miss
Hirscher, both of Franklin, Ohio,
were killed two miles south of there,
when an automobile in which they
were travelling was hit by train.
The office of the Nashville Ameri-
can was closed Sunday night, that pa
per being merged with the Nashville
Tennessean under the name of the
Tennessean and American. 1t will
support b. w. Hooper, Republican and
fusion candidate for governor.
Many persons may be forced to
go with short supply of coal
this winter while in some sec
tions serious hardship may result from
a dearth of coal shipping facilities at
time when demand becomes univer-
sal. Such is the unpleasant prospect
which coal operators assert threatens
a large portion of the country.
The lowest death rate on record for
the United States is reported by the
Census Bureau bulletin on mortality
statistics for 1909 The rate, which is
given at fifteen per thousand of the
Professionally estimated population last
year was four-tenths per cent, less
than the estimate made in the year
1909 for the registration area An era
of lower mortality is predicted from
now on by the census officers.
Representatives of Mrs. Mathilda NJ.
Chesbrough of Newton, Mass, have
paid over $4,000 to the custom author
tiles in settlement of $1,000 fine i'm
posed on her for smuggling and in re-
demption of a pearl necklace seized
last year. The case has been long con-
tested but Mrs. Chesbrough was con-
vinced that the only way for her to get
her necklace was by paying the fine
and the value of the goods seized.
At Atlantic City Walter Wellman's
big dirigible America, in which he and
a daring crew of four men expect to
establish the first air route over the
Atlantic ocean, is now in readiness
for her trial flights, which will be
held as soon as weather conditions
permit. The air-ship was Launched"
in the Inlet on Saturday at noon, since
then the immense silk envelope, with
its skeleton steel car with capacity
of seventy people, has been floating
free in the balloon shed. The opper-
alton of releasing the balloon from the
way was accomplished without
hitch.
DR.. Morris D. Stepp, Cleveland
surgeon, drove his automobile directly
before speeding electric freight car
Sunday. Mrs. Stepp and her two
small children were killed. DR.. Stepp
suffered three fractured ribs and in
ternal injuries. DIR. Stepp is a lee
turer at Western Reserve Medical Col
lege.
Announcement was made here Fri
day by the Morris Packing Company
of Chicago Of the purchase in Mex
leo OF 250.000 acres of land, which is
to comprise one Of the largest ranches
] in the world.