The Glenwood post., 1911-12-09
GEN ERAL.


| The Interior Department has at last
receded from it's position of not ad-
mitting automobiles into national
parks.
Suit was filed in the Circuit Court
in Cincinnati against the National
Cash Register Company of Dayton,
Ohio, charging conspiracy.
The total coal production of the
world in 1910 was approximately 1,30O,-
100000 short tons, of which the United
| States contributed about thirty nine
FER cent.
1t is proposed that the 100000 sub
scribed by labor unions to aid the
McNamaras be turned over to the rela-
tives of the victims of the Los Angeles
lines disaster.
Death came suddenly at his home
| in North Easton, Mass, to Rear Ad-
miral George Francis Faxon Wilde U
! S. N, retired. He suffered from heart
disease. He was 81 years old.
John d. Rockefeller has terminated
his career as head of the Standard
Oil Company. With him there also re-
tired most of the conspicuous figures
of the early days of the oil trust"
Not a Rockefeller remains among the
officers and directors of the Standard
Oil Company.
Estimates of the Treasury Depart
ment for running the government dur
ing the next fiscal year, contemplates
saving $21,2S3, ,921.4 .43 as compared with
the amount appropriated for the last
fiscal year The total amount estimat-
ed for all expenses of government is
/ s745,S34 ,563.
Independent tobacco interests will
ask the United States Supreme Court
for leave to file petition for writ
of mandamus directing the judges of
the Circuit Court of New York to va
cate their decree approving the re-
organization of the American Tobacco
Company.
The Standard Oil Company will not
ing company, of more than thirty cor
porations, in various branches of the
oil business. Those subsidiaries un-
der the decree of the Supreme Court,
will now assume entire management
of their own affairs.
Unless the friar lands in the phil
ppines are speedily disposed of they
will become heavy financial drain on
the Philippine government, says C. h.
Edwards, the chief of the Bureau OF
Insular Affairs, and in his annual re-
port, recommends that these lands be
sold.
Capt. E. A. Swaney and four mem
bers of the crew OF the towboat Dia-
mond We're killed in the explosion of
the boats boilers while she was lying
in the Ohio river off Avalon, six
miles south of Pittsburg. Five others
were injured, two fatally. The boat
lies at the bottom of the Ohio.
The Supreme Court of the United
States has opened the way for the fed
eral government to prosecute coal
land frauds in Alaska by holding that
the general coal land laws of the Unit
ed States, which forbid persons or as
sociations making more than one en-
try. applied to the unsurveyed coal re-
gionS of Alaska.
The board of governors of the Ma
tional Irrigation Congress have com
pleted arrangements for the nine
teenth annual meeting of the orEan
zation which will be held in Chicago
: The members of the board are: r
insinger, Spokane Wash, chairman
B. A. Fowler, Phoenix. Ariz., vice
chairman; Arthur Hooker, Spokane
Wash, secretary and treasurer
! Robert r. Mccormick and w. G. De
collie, Chicago, and w. ]. McGee, Wash
ington, D. c.
Reports from the woolen mills iI
many parts of New England indicate
that the period of depression, whict
was reported year or more ago, hat
passed The mills are preparing tc
put all hands on an extrawork sched
ule, made necessary by the large or
: ders on hand and those that will come
: Full forces have been at work fol
weeks, but have been unable to re
duce the stacks of orders lying upor
managers desks
| Ortie McManigal will be carried t.
Milwaukee for trial OF a local dyna
miting in 1910 II he IL free in the West