The Glenwood post., 1911-11-11
CONDENSED RECORD OF THE
PROGRESS oFSEvENTs At
HOME AND ABROAD.
ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, o o N G 8, ACHIEVE,
MENTS, SUFFERlNGS. HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
WESTERN.

| MA exposition, which VII be held IN
San Diego in 1915, has begun.
Sixten automobile racing cars have
started on the long grind in the an
nual Los Angeles to Phoenix desert
sand race,
Col. Oscar f. Learned, pioneer and
one OF the founders of the Republican
| party in Kansas, died at Lawrence,
aged seventy-nine.
For the first time in the history OF
Milwaukee county, Wis, a woman has
been sentenced to life Imprisonment
for the murder of her husband.
The first complete woman jury to
be empaneled in California has been
sworn for duty in Justice of the
Peace Cassidy's court in Watts.
Kyrle Bellew, one of the foremost
actors of the English speaking stage,
author and explorer, died in Salt Lake
City of penumonia, after brief ill
ness.
All records for youthful marriages in
South Dakota were broken when Coun-
ty Judge Russell at Deadwood united
Albert Holley, a miner, and Ada Cong
don, aged thirteen, of Lead.
John Smith, for thirty years presid-
ing patriarch of the Mormon church,
and nephew of its founder and first
president, Joseph Smith. died in Salt
Lake, Utah, aged seventy-nine.
In the presence OF his father and
brother, William Glissin of Antelope,
Ore, aged forty-five, sheepherder,
stabbed and killed his aged mother,
who had demonstrated with him for
intemperance.
Slight earthquake shocks, the cen
ters of which are believed to have
been located far out in the Pacific,
have been registered in the last TWEEN
ty-four hours at the Santa Clara col
lege observatory.
The third venire of prospective ju.
rors has been exhausted at the close
of court in the Mcnamara murder
case in Los Angeles Altogether 2O7
venircmen have been drawn, and out
of these ten have been accepted.
Three bodies were recovered from
the wreckage of the east span of the
partly completed Mountain Quarries
Company bridge. at Auburn, Calf,
which collapsed Five injured were
taken from the tumble. 1t is thought
that the clearing of the ruins will
yield still more bodies.
Farmers of the South must withhold
from the market every remaining bale
of the seasons crop of cotton and fol
low this with a concerted and binding
agreement to reduce next seasons
acreage at least twenty-five per cent
if they hope to restore the staple to a
normal price and relieve the losses
sustained by present low prices. This
is the plan decided upon at the con
ference OF Southern governors at their
concluding session in New Orleans.
Aviator Galbraith p. Rodgers, ap-
preaching Il successful completion oil
his ocean to ocean jaunt across the
American continent, scared into Pasa
dena Calf, at a mile a minute clip
on the last squirt of thirty miles from
Pomona. and dropped from an altitude
vi StN tI al luOuSdHh lttl " d Sldiilul
landing. He will fly to the coast, land.
ing Al the edge of the Pacific ocean.
His official record for the trip is 1881
miles in 1924 minutes.
The thirty-third degree was con
ferred upon five Masous at the Mason
ic temple in Denver. This is the larg
est number of men who have taken
this degree at one time in the history
of the order in Colorado. The men
who became thirty-third degree Nh
sons were Richard w. Corwin of Pu-
eblo, George w. Vallery of Denver,
James r. Killian of Denver, Darius A
Barton of Denver and II. Bruce Teller
of Denver.
John H. Hadley, for many years
roadmaster for the Missouri Pacific
railway, and later employed by the
Denver & Rio Grande road, committed
suicide at Independence, Kan, by
shooting He sat on a curbstone on a
main business street and fired bu..
let through his brain. Hadley was to
have been tried in Canon City, Colo,
Nov. 13, on charge of padding Den
yer G. Rio Grande payrolls. 1t is be-
lieved he was respondent over the
coming trial.
Several persons were injured and
residents of Niles, Calf, thrown into
a panic when a herd of 300 steers,
frightened by switch engine, STAN
peded through the business district
Negotiations which have been pend.
ing for some time are practically
closed in Council Bluffs. for the sale of
the Atlantic, North & South railroad,