The Glenwood post., 1911-02-11
GEN ERAL.

! SCNGhAI.
Al Re, of Everett, Mass, claims to
have the shortest name of any man
III the country.
The Maryland College for Women
at Lutherville, Md, was practically
destroyed by fire, entailing a loss of
| 100000.
One of the most sweeping quaran-
tines in the history of Philadelphia,
was put in force following discovery
of smallpox.
| Frank Hotchkiss, known to Yale
men for two generations as the Off
cial in charge of the university build
ings, is dead.
| The deadlock over the election OF
| United States senator continues un-
broken in New York. There was no
change in the relatives strength of
any of the candidates on the seven
teenth joint ballot
Everybody Works but Father" will
be sadly out of tune in Chicago when
the new court of domestic relations
opens for business. The new tribunal
is designed to deal especially with
men who sit at home all day, while
their wives take in washing to sup
port the family.
| In one of the most disastrous explo-
sions ever recorded in Upper Michi-
gan, ten men met instant death at the
plant of the Pluto Powder Company on
the outskirts of Ishpeming. The ex-
plosion took place in the gelatine
| powder house. Every man in this
/ building was blown to pieces.
According to a statement made by
c. M. Drake, president of the Phila-
delphia Produce Exchange, specula-
tors in second grade butter in New
| York and Chicago have been unable to
find market for all of their cold stor-
age holdings and will be compelled to
ship 100000 pounds of the product
o Europe to save themselves from alb
solute loss
/ The reclamation service reports that
several of its construction camps are
now entirely cut off from the rest of
the world by reason of continued bliz-
yards and excessive snowfall In the
Teton mountains. at the headwaters
of the Snake river in Wyoming, $50
men are completely isolated, owing to
the blizzard which has prevailed with.
cut cessation for many days.
The executive committee of the
Union Pacific and Southern Pacific
lines have voted to complete double.
tracking of the lines from the Missouri
river to San Francisco. They also
voted to double-track the Oregon Short
| Line from the junction with the Union
Pacific main line at Granger, Wyo., to
huntington, Ore, also the line along
the Columbia river in Oregon to Port
land
| Within less than ten months after
the initiation by President Taft of ne.
eotiations with the Canadian govern
ment, there was laid simultaneously
before the American Congress at
Washington and the Canadian parlia.
ment at Ottawa, reciprocity arrange
ment which, if approved, will do
much, in the opinion of the negotia-
tors, to enlarge trade between the
United States and Canada.
| A cargo of dynamite in transit
from freight car to the hold of a
lighter moored at Pier No Z, Com.
nunpaw, N. j., exploded 15O Yards
south of the Jersey City terminal of
the Central railroad of New Jersey.
and in the widespread ruin that fol.
lowed seven are known to have been
killed, seven more are missing, hun
dreds were wounded and varying re-
ports leave from fifteen to twenty
more unaccounted for.
That James Whitcomb Riley. the In
diana poet, has been i'll since last sum-
rler, the public is aware, but the real
seriousness of his illness has not been
known except to his close friends in
Indianapolis. His condition is critical.
With gala spirit that excelled any
of the far-famed festivals ever held
in that city, San Francisco celebrated
the adoption by the House of Repre-
sentatives in Washington of the reso-
luton naming the metropolis of the
Pacific as the site of the Panama
Pacific International Exposition. to be
held In 1915.