The Glenwood post., 1911-02-18
GEN ERAL.

Right Rev. OH w. Whitaker, bishop
of the Protestant Episcopal diocese OF
Pennsylvania, died in Philadelphia.
Charles H. Markham of Chicago.
president of the Illinois Central, was
elected president of the Central OF
Georgia.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hyman Berkowitz and
tleir five children were killed by il.
dominating gas in their home in the
Ghetto in Philadelphia.
The condition OF Miss Clara Bar
ton, founder of the Red Cross, who
has been ill with bronchitis at her
Rome in Glen Echo. Md, suburb OF
Washington, is greatly improved.
The United States Steel Corpora,
ton announced in New York that the
untitled steel tonnage on the books Jan.
q last amounted to ,110,919;, against
2,674,757 tons on the books of the com
pany Dec. 81. H.
Shortly after midnight Frank Cot
fyn broke the worlds record for alti-
tude in Wright biplane in Augusta,
Ga. He rose 500 feet. The previous
night record was held by the late
Arch Hoxsey, with $50 feet.
1t was given out at the states at
torney's office at Danville, H., that
the grand jury would return large
number of indictments. The investi-
cation is only half finished and over
800 indictments have been drawn.
Philadelphia, Pa.-His Grace, Arch
bishop Patrick j. Ryan, is dead, The
news of thig great Catholic prelate's
death will cause grief throughout the
land for the Archbishop was greatly
beloved for his learning, his piety and
his never failing good humor.
Thomas j. Ham, one of the oldest
newspaper men in Pennsylvania and
probably the last survivor of the din
rer given to Charles Dickens in New
York in 1852, by newspaper editors
and publishers, died at Lakewood,
New Jersey, following a stroke of par
alysis. He was seventy-five years old.
Milton j. Durham, former comptrol-
Ter of the treasury and former con-
sressman from the Eighth district of
Kentucky, died in Lexington of pneu-
monia. Judge Durham was eighty
seven years old. He was a leading
Odd Fellow, having once served as
srandsire of the order in the United
States.
The high cost of living received a
setback when eggs in the Kansas City
market declined two cents dozen
and hog prices went twenty cents a
tundred pounds lower. Eggs were
fourteen to sixteen cents wholesale,
which is sixteen cents lower than at
the beginning of the year Hogs are
selling $1.25 lower than last year; cat
tie fifty cents to one dollar lower, and
sheep 50 lower.
Inefficiency, insubordination ant,
mismanagement have developed in the
railway mail service and is likely to
result in an upheaval, perhaps in a
reorganization of the entire service.
Postmaster General Hitchcock is thor,
oughly incensed and makes no conceal.
ment of his Indignation Recently he
hdo DCCh 'ohuuStihG pCiSOhdl luVoS-
tigation. His inquiry is not concluded
but the facts thus far developed in.
dicate plainly that its results are like.
ly to be drastic.
In fulfillment of a compact made
with her husband during his lingering
illness, which death ended, Mrs. Lyn.
wood S. Keene of Oxford. Me-. took
her own life after having fatally shot
her fourteen-year-old son Gerald.
Philadelphia.-The funeral of the
Right Rev. OH Whitaker, Bishop OF
the Protestant Episcopal Diocese Of
Pennsylvania. was held from the
Church of Our Saviour, interment tax.
ing place In the graveyard Of the
Church of st. James the Less, Fails
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