The Glenwood post., 1911-10-21
GEN ERAL.

| 1GNGH HAC.
| The recent floods in the Black river
in Wisconsin wiped out the business
section of the town of Black River
Falls.
Hearings in the Lorimer investiga-
ton before the United States Senate
committee, have been resumed in Chi
cago.
A negro, who it was charged, at
tackled Mrs. Thomas Cox at her home
near Forest City, Ark, was taken from
prison by mob and lynched.
John R. Walsh, ex-banker and
former head of railroad enterprises,
has been paroled from the federal
| prison at Leavenworth
Charged with the murder of his
brother and rival for the love of a
girl, Elmer Ferris, aged 81 of Ava,
Mo, has been placed in Jail in Kansas
City, Kans.
Bertha Westbrook of New York
wants $4,000 damages because DR..
| Albert Plant "blundered" when he
mended her face, causing one eye to
be larger than the other, so she can't
be good actress.
Henry Hona, pedestrian, has COM
pleted coast to coast walk having
journeyed from Jersey City to San
Francisco in seventy-one days. Hona
did not steal, solicit nor work during
his trip. He used his savings of sew
eral months work as a laborer to de
fray his expenses.
By the sweeping decree entered in
the United States Circuit Court at
| Toledo, the backbone of the so-called
Electrical Trust was broken and, in
the judgment of Attorney General
| Wickersham, the government was
equipped with precedents of genuine
value in its prosecutions of CONNER
cial combinations forbidden by the
Sherman law.
| Denver is believed to have the great
est number of automobile trucks in
use of any city in the country in pro-
portion to its population. Statistics
that have been gathered by the trade
show that Denver has one truck to
every 500 people, Philadelphia one to
5000. Cleveland one to 5000, Seattle
one to 5000, Los Angeles one to i,4OO,
San Francisco one to $500 and Oak
land one to $500.
In the cathedral in Baltimore, where
| fifty years ago he was ordained
| priest, then successfully consecrated
| a bishop, invested with the pallium of
an archbishop and twenty years after
his ordination received the red beretta
of a cardinal, Cardinal James Gibbc rs,
archbishop OF Baltimore, received
homage from illustrous prelates and
laymen from both this country and
| foreign lands. The ecclesiastical cele-
| bration of the cardinals dual Jubilee
began with pontifical high mass, cele-
brated by the cardinal Archbishop
John j. Glennon of ST. Louis delivered
the sermon.
| Disastrous weather conditions
which prevailed throughout the coun-
try earlier in the growing season
abated in September and the cond
tion of most of the important unhar-
| NeSltu tIODS Ol oClODeT ISL showed
| improvement. Corn was one-tenth of
one per cent. higher than it was on
September 1st; potatoes improved 81
per cent; tobacco, "a per cent; flax,
IL per cent; apples, sc per cent;
rice declined is per cent. The effect
of hot weather and drought through
out the growing season was shown in
the official preliminary estimates of
the production of spring wheat, oats
and barley. These showed loss in
production over last years harvest OF
an aggregate of 3O1, 100000 bushels
The practice at almost all Roman
Catholic churches of asking contri-
| button at the door or of charging fee
for seat in church, is ordered discon-
,inued in a circular letter addressed
| TO all archbishops and bishops of the
church in the United States that has
been sent out by Monsignor D. Fal-
COMO, apostolic delegate at washing
| ton.
A discrepancy of over $3,2SS,271 be-
tween the material on hand and thas
called for by the books of the Wash
ngton navy yard was shown by the
inventory just completed.