The Glenwood post., 1911-11-04
GEN ERAI.


active service from 1861 to 1906
Miss Fola La Toilette. daughter of
Senator La Toilette of Wisconsin, was
larried at her home in Washington
to George Middleton of New York.
Robert Patton Lisle, aged sixty
seven. pay director of the United
States navy, who was retired With
the rank of rear admiral, died sud,
denly at his home in Philadelphia from
heart disease.
Joseph Pulitzer, proprietor of the
New York World and the ST. Louis
Post dispatch, died aboard his yacht,
the Liberty, in Charleston, S. c., har-
bor The immediate cause of Mr.. Pull
tiers death was heart failure.
] Because of his youth, Earl Gilchrist
of Little Rock, Ark, a negro de.
clared by his parents to be thirteen
years of age, will not be hanged as a
jury decreed, and the Supreme Court
in the penitentiary.
Secretary Fisher of the Interior De-
partment has announced himself as
unqualifiedly in favor of the retire
ment system for the civil employees of
the government. He also favored an
increase in pay for employees in the
intermediate grades of the Executive
Departments.
Material advances in the freight
rates on the heavy traffic in apples in
carloads recently proposed by the
| Western trunk lines and individually
by the Chicago, Rock Island & Pa
cific, effective Nov. l, have been sus-
pended by the Interstate Commerce
Commission, until Feb. 2S
For the second time, Capt Klaus
Larsen of Detroit, successfully navi-
gated in a motor boat the turbulent
waters of the lower Niagara river. at
Niagara Falls, and the great mael-
strom at the point where the stream
turns on its journey to Lewiston.
| This, he declares, will be his last
/ Niagara trip.
| The tariff boards report on the
woolen industry is to be transmitted
TO Congress upon the opening of the
next session in December, in Washing
ton, and the boards report on cotton
will follow probably before January.
This. it became known, is the admin
istration's programme with relation to
| the big tariff fight that will be waged
in Congress this winter.
| The annual meeting of the boards
of home and foreign missions of the
| Trinity Methodist Episcopal church
Will take place in Denver November
10 to 23. The bishops of the church
as well as missionery authorities from
all over the United States will be in
attendance. The meetings will be held
in the Trinity Methodist Episcopal
church. The first session will be that
of the home board. Friday, Nov. 10.
Complete control of all the rail
roads Of the country by the Interstate
Commerce Commission and virtual
elimination of the state commissions
from such control, is foreshadowed in
an opinion handed down by the Su-
preme Court of the United States in
| Washington, The court held that here
alter all equipment used on any rail
road which is highway of interstate
commerce, must comply with the fed
eral safety appliance act.
The proposed plan for reorganiza-
ton of the Tobacco trust, submitted
by the American Tobacco Company,
and co-defendants to the government
antitrust suit was both praised and
condemned before the Federal Court
judges of the United States for the
Southern district of New York. After
Attorney General Wickersham had
filed the governments answer to the
plan, counsel for thedefendants plead
ed with the court to accept the dis
solution proposal. The defendants in
sisted that it was an honest plan TO
comply with the requirements in the
mandate of the Supreme Court for
reorganization that will restore com
petition in compliance with the terms
of the Sherman antitrust law,
United States Steel common fell
81 points to $50 on the stock ex-
change. That movement was the most
striking effect upon the securities
market of the governments dissolu
ton suit against the United States
Steel corporation.
The extent of the mail communica
ton of the American people with
themselves and the rest of the world
is shown by the fact that 10,1Q9,250.
900 postage stamps were turned out
by the Bureau Of Engraving and Print
ing at Washington during the last fis-
cal year.