The Glenwood post., 1911-10-14
GEN ERAL.

GENERAL.
Betting on the worlds baseball
series between New York and Phfla-
delphia is at even money in both
cities.
Earl Ovington, the aviator, started
from Governors Island in an attempt
to fly across the continent to Los
Angeles.
New high records were established
in the coffee market in New York
when contracts for near by deliveries
were firm at 141a.
Clifford Pinchot will return to Wash
ington about October 18th, prepared
to charge that conspiracy has been
carefully organized to mislead public
opinion concerning Alaska.
| Quietness prevails in Chicago in
the strike of shop workers on the
Illinois Central and other Hartman
railroads. according to the announce.
ments of railroad officials.
Four men were killed and six in
jured in an explosion of dynamite six
ty feet underground in a shaft under
Central Park, N Y, where they were
working on the aqueduct for the Cats
kill water system.
A Burlington freight train was
wrecked half mile east of Lingo,
Macon county, Missouri. Six boys of
New Cambria and Bevier. Mo-, are
| reported to have been killed. They
were stealing ride
1t is said that son of the late
| United States Senator Stephen B. Ell
| kins is engaged to marry Miss Sarah
| Brooke, talented English actress, of
| London. Miss Brooke is well-known
on both the American and English
stages.
The Wall street news agencies re-
port that Henry c. Frick, the steel
magnate and, next to j. p. Morgan,
the most masterful personality in the
steel trust, is about to retire from the
corporation, having sold most of his
stock.
| There will be criminal prosecution
of officials of the Steel trust, accord
ing to statement made at the De-
partment of Justice at Washington.
| Who these officials are the depart
ment would not make known. Mean
while on the desk of Attorney Cen
eral Wickersham, awaiting his return
from New York, are the papers in
suit in equity ready for filing against
the United States Steel corporation.
Out of the testimony given before
the United States Senate committee in
Milwaukee, which is investigating
charges that corruption contributed
to the election of Senator Isaac Steph.
enson was developed evidence that the
stephenson campaign managers re-
garded the $1O7,793, admittedly ex-
pended for the campaign for nomina-
ton, as small compared to $150,000 or
100000 which might have been spent
for campaign more Systematically
conducted
w. X. Chung, dean of Canton Chris
tan college and president of the Can
ton Board of Trade at Canton, China,
while speaking in Boston, declared
lnal MS country is about to be en-
gulfed in a civil war greater than any
since the dawn of civilization. He
says that the number of Christian
Chinese has doubled since the Boxer
war and that the 10000 native Chris
tions in China will be increasd to 4OO,-
900 in 1920. The Christian Chinese
and the thousands of students grad
uated from the Chinese colleges and
the universities of Europe and Ameri-
ca will form the nucleus that will give
the revolution birth.
More than 800 cases awaited the
consideration of the Supreme Court
Of the United States when it opened
in Washington. This was the largest
number that had faced the court on
beginning of term in about twenty
years.
The sinking of an unknown British
barkentine, said to have sailed from
Bridgeton, N. s., off the entrance to
the Bay of Fundy recently with all
on board, was reported in Boston by
Captain Goodwin of the fishing
schooner Good Luck. It is thought thir.
ty were lost.