The Glenwood post., 1911-11-18
GEN ERAU.

Vi tue LOulSidId sugar Planters Tor
banner crop.
One thousand delegates attended
Trans Mississippi Commercial Con
gress in Kansas City.
The November crop report of the
Department of Agriculture shows tn
production of corn to be 2,776,3O1, ,OOO
bushels.
For the first time in history New
York is making profit out of it's wa
ter supply. Profit this year is So
100000.
The Rev. Clarence V. T. Richeson
will be placed on trial on the charge
of numbering Miss Avis Linnell at
Boston, on January Is, 1912
The smart set of Washington was
surprised to learn that Stephen Ell
kins, son of the late Senator from
| West Virginia. is engaged to Sarah
Brooke, the handsome English actress
The small pox epidemic in Duluth is
assuming considerable proportions and
new cases are being reported daily
| During the month Of October the dis
ease doubled in the number Of its vic
| Tins
Red Cross Christmas stamps may
be sold in any building under the con
troll of the Treasury Department. As
! sistant Secretary Bailey of the Treas
ury Department has issued the neces.
sary permission.
For the first time the government
has asked the Supreme Court of the
United States to proclaim as the law
of the land that running corner on
a stock exchange is violation of the
Sherman antitrust act.
Patrick Flanagan, charged with dis
orderly conduct, was given the privi-
lege of being his own judge and fined
himself $50 and costs in the Municipal
Court in Chicago. Unable to pay the
fine, he sentenced himself to the
Bridewell to work it out.
The terms of the will of Joseph Pull
itzer, which has been filed for probate
in New York, have been made public.
Its conspicuous features are the rati-
flcation of the gift of s1,OOO,OO0 to
Columbia University for the establ sh.
ment of a school of journalism.
A more general participation in
wool selling has been the rule this
week in the Boston market AS a
result the sales of wool have been
somewhat larger than the previous
week Probably for the past two
weeks sales have totalled from 9,O0O.
900 to lOO0OOOO pounds.
Booker T. Washington, the negro edu
Gator who delivered a lecture in Osh-
kosh contends that the negro popula-
ton in the United States is increasing
at normal rate, although census fig
ures just issued show that the ne
groes are increasing only about one
half as rapidly as the whites.
BY refusing to grant an appeal in
the case of Henry Clay Beattie, Jr.,
convicted in Chesterfield county, Va,
September s, of the murder of his
wife. the Virginia Supreme Court
takes away from the condemned man
his last hope of escaping execution on
November "a, unless Governor Mann
should interfere.
The greatest educational exposition
ever held in New York City has been
brought to a close. For ten days New
Workers have thrCnged Madison Square
Garden to see what the great West is
doing in the way of developing the
immense natural resources of the coun.
try The show just ended was the first
land show ever held east of Pittsburg
Acting on information received from
St. Louis the district attorneys office
in New York, began a quest for $i22,
900 stolen by the late David Roths-
child, wrecker of the Federal bank, in
1904. This sum is said to have been
deposited by him under the assumed
name of Levy in two safety deposit
vaults, where the money has remained
since.
Responding to a request by Repre-
sentative Aiken of South Carolina that
the federal government undertake the
prosecution of bears" who, it is al
legged, are engaged in depressing the
price of cotton to the financial detri-
ment of the Southern producer, At
torney General Wickersham frankly
admits that he does not understand
, the working of a bear pool or how
such combination could operate in
restraint of commerce.
Under the ruling of the secretary of
the interior no steps will be taken
until March Is to enforce forfeiture for
failure to make payment entries and
water right applications on reclama-
tions which become due December /.
, 1911.
Expected reduction of transconti-
mental railroad freight rates was held
up when the Court of Commerce grant
ed temporary injunction against the
order of the Interstate Commerce
Commission in what are known az
the Spokane and other Pacific coast
points rate case