The Glenwood post., 1911-12-02
GEN ERAL.

Inc National Horse Show, the last
to be held under the roof of old Mad
ison Square Garden. New York, has
closed.
Henry Clay Beattie, charged with
the murder of his young wife. was put
to death at Richmond, Va, in the cleo
tric chair.
Lafayette Choate of Liberty, Mo,
pleaded guilty to charge of harness
ing his wife with a mule and COM
| pelling her to help harrow field.
By the grave of the wife whom he
murdered July 18th, the body of Henry
Cley Beattie, Jr., who was electrocuted
at Richmond, Va, was buried in Maury
cemetery.
Three murderers were put to death
by electricity in Sing Sing prison at
dawn, November 20. The executions
began at 5:2S o'clock and lasted only
twenty-three minutes.
Sent by the clubwomen of Iowa to
learn how to rear more perfect babies,
DR.. Margaret Vaupel Clark of Water
loo, will sail from New York Dec. 2,
and will spend a year in Europe
The Gary steel plant of Chicago,
which is considered creditable baro-
meter of business conditions in the
Middle West. is producing more steel
than ever before in the history. There
is much activity in all departments
and there are $500 men on the pay
rolls of the steel works alone.
With but one dissenting vote the
American Bankers Association in New
Orleans gave its unqualified approval
to the proposed Aldrich plan for the
reform of the currency. Congress was
urged to deal with the proposition as
an economic question outside the do
main of party politics.
C. w. Morse, the New York banker,
now in the Atlanta penitentiary, will,
if there is no legal objection, be re-
moved from that institution within a
few days to a point near Atlanta and
placed under observation by physi-
clans to determine whether or not his
physical condition is such that he
should be granted pardon by Presi-
dent Taft.
An independent sugar refinery
| which it is declared will be relent-
less and formidable rival of the So
| called sugar trust, has been organized
in Philadelphia by George H. Earle,
Jr., the wizard of finance" who has
effected it by building from the ashes
of suicide and bankruptcy corpora
| tion to be capitalized at $4,000,000
with plant to cost the same amount.
Two victims were claimed on the
Savannah, Ca, automobile race
course, over which the grand prize
and Wander bilt cup races will be run.
The first accident was a general pile
up. Joe Dawson was badly hurt. ].
| ID. McNay was killed in the second
accident. His car turned over and he
was pinned underneath. Maxwell,
McNay's mechanician, was seriously
hurt. .
John f. Dryden, founder of the Pru-
dental Insurance Company of America
and at its head practically all of his
life, member of the United States
Senate and multi-millionaire, died at
his home in Newark, n. j. Death was
due to pneumonia, which developed
after an operation which he under
went a week ago for gallstones. Dry
den was seventytwo years old. He
was native of Pennington, Me.
| Secretary of the Navy Meyer has
devised plan for utilizing in time of
war the colliers and supply vessels of
the Panama canal service, and he also
will emphasize in his annual report
to President Taft, which shortly will
be made, that the Navy Department
is encouraging the production of
aeroplanes specially designed for use
from shipboard. Declaration that gov
all Panama canal facilities would be
OF great benefit, economically, as well
rs from the standpoint of naval pre-
paredness. Secretary Meyer goes on to
say that If the canal colliers, oil
tankers and supply vessels are pro-
vided as parts of the canal establish
ment these vessels will be available
| for use as fleet auXiliaries in time
of war and thus the necessity for add
ing just that many expensive vessels
10 the regular naval establishment
would be obviated.
With 9,96S,172 bales of cotton Of
the growth of 1911 ginned prior to
November l, as announced by the Cen
sus Bureau, the promised record break
ing cotton crop of this season is fast
being made ready for the manufac-
turers.
Tortured by the mental picture Of
his headless wife and her paramour.
whom he slew, at Kenosha, Wis, Pas
quale Marchesi. twenty-seven years
old. went TO priest and confessed
the double crime. which had thereto
fore not been discovered. The young
J avenger was turned over to the police.