The Glenwood post., 1911-11-25
CONDENSED RECORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, DoiN G 8, ACHIEVE
MENTs, sUFFERiNGS. HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
WESTERN.

ADAMS Express Company Office ~
Grand Rapids, Mich, was robbed of ev-
erything in the safe, the bandit then
escaping.
A. A. Hayes, general freight audi
Fe railway, died at Topeka of blood
poisoning.
Great Northern fast mail train col
lided head on with freight train at
Rugby, n D., killing the engineer and
fireman and injuring five others.
Several armed men dynamited the
safe of the bank of Clarita, fourteen
miles west of Colgate, Okla, and got
about $500 in currency, and es-
capped.
Because of the activity of alleged
revolutionists along the Texas-Mexi-
can border, especially in the vicinity
of Laredo, Troop l, Third United
States cavalry, has been ordered to
that point for patrol duty.
DR.. S. Dalla, said to be prominent
physician of Los Angeles, Cal, after
announcing his purpose to fellow pas
sengers on a Santa Fe train near Pauls
Valley, Okla, swallowed carbolic acid
and leaped through window of the
sleeper.
The Methodist Episcopal church,
through its general committee in ses-
sion at Trinity church, in Denver,
went on record against the opium traf-
fic in India and China and appointed a
committee which will call upon Pres
ident Taft at Washington to urge his
aid.
Col. Clifford Ham of Dubuque has
been appointed collector general OF
customs for the republic of Nicaragua
Col. Ham, for the last eight years has
been connected with the customs ser
vice of the Philippines, For two years
he has been surveyor of customs at
Manila.
Mrs. Letha Lamara, the fifteen-year
old wife of Louis Lamara, Greek
committed suicide in the county jail
at Everett, Wash, by choking herself
with piece of rope. Lamara and his
wife were arrested Nov. and were
being held pending an investigation Of
their conduct.
A sweeping reduction of freight
rates from the Atlantic seaboard tc
Colorado common points by way of the
Galveston gateway is demanded by the
Denver Consumers and Shippers Asso
citation, in petition of intervention
in the suit brought before the Inter
state Commerce Commission.
A heavy downpour of rain in the
lowlaIids. and melting of the six feet
of snow flooded the rivers of western
Washington, broke the dam of the mu
nicipal electric plant at Seattle, cu
off Seattle's water supply. demoralizet
railroad service, washed out bridges
and flooded many farms and valley
towns
The general committee of the Meth
odist Episcopal Church has accepted
from the estate of the last Bishop ]
p. Newman, the pastor who received
General U. S. Grant into the Metho
dist church, and also preached the
funeral sermon over the great warrior
plOt OF ground anu DullulHSS III Iu'
city of Jerusalem which will be devot
ed to school.
Jerry Micke, aged eleven, is in a dy
ing condition at his home in For
Worth, Texas, of lockjaw. A week ago
it is said, he was chewing gum il
school, To punish him his teacher com
PEELED him to stand before the clas
and chew wads of paper. He wa
forced to continue this operation TO
half an hour. Physicians are puzzled
by the case and express the opinion
that he cannot recover.
Anti-saloon territory created by vot'
under the local option, is not throw
open to the retail sale of liquors b,
the issuance of state licenses to phar
macists, declares Judge George w
Allen, who at Denver ruled tina
Charles j. Clayton. must pay stat'
license. He fined the druggist $40
for selling two ounces of whisky on
prescription, although the druggist hat
state license.