The Glenwood post., 1912-04-06
GEN ERAL.

Six thousand tons OF potatoes, the
largest shipment ever received in New
York, arrived recently from London.
John Arbuckle, the well known cof-
lee man, died in Brooklyn. He was
seventy-four and leaves many millions.
Suffragists have announced that
they 8ill print daily paper in Chica-
go, devoted to the cause of equal suf-
frage
Ralph Raymond, locomotive fireman,
has been arrested in Chicago for rob-
bing the body of man killed by his
engine.
There are 15,O15,569 Catholics in the
-aited States proper. according to the
1912 edition of Kennedys Official
Catholic Directory.
The total value Of imports of farm
products into the United States In
1910 vas s1,556.947, ,43O, as against ST..
226, ,562, ,446 in 1906.
Woman suffrage and the election Of
United States Senators by direct vote
we're defeated in the State Senate Of
Massachusetts bv close votes.
Massachusetts is to send commit
ee, made up principally of wage earn
ers, to Europe to investigate labor con-
ditions. The committee is specifical
ly directed to visit great manufacture
ing institutions.
The Senate rejected the Sherwood
dollar-a-day pension bill, which had
passed the House, and then adopted
56 to 16, the Smoot general age and
service pension measure, under which
the pension roll would be increased
by S2O0OO,O0O annually during the
next i've years.
To put her system of diet, which
she believes is solution of the cost
of living problem, to the hardest pos
sible test, Mrs. David Beach, well
known in musical circles in New York,
will walk from that city to Chicago,
starting April 10. She expects to reach
Chicago by June 1.
The federal treasury is fast over
taking the big deficit that has been
Characteristic of the current fiscal
year. The high total of revenue. for
The month of March, exceeding the
expenditures by s10,63S,000. has re-
duced the deficit from $2O,57O 900 to
s9,932, 900. The surplus year ago
was only sl,963.00O.
After being out for twenty-four
hours, the jury which has been trying
the officials of the sugar trust on the
charge of criminal conspiracy growing
out OF the closing of the plant of the
Pennsylvania Sugar Refining Compa-
ny following a loan of s1,250,OO0 to
its owner, Adolph Segal of Philadel-
phia, reported that it was unable to
agree and was discharged by Federal
Judge Hand.
Altlough strikes are still in prog
centers, the week has brought about a
noticeable improvement IN general
conditions. Several Of the smaller la
bor difficulties have been settled and
strike of 10000 cotton mill opera
tives at New Bedford was averted by
the granting of the ten per cent ad-
vance Similar advances were made in
at least 100000 operatives will share
in the distribution.
Prices OF carpeting and rugs are
likely to advance sharply during the
next two months, according to trade
announcements, owing to the scarcity
of desirable carpet wools in the mar
kets of the world.
Senator Steph.ison OF Wisconsin,
octogenarian millionaire banker and
lumberman, retains his seat in the Sen.
ate. BY q vote of 40 to "a the SEN
ate declared his election valid and ~.
jected the charge that $1o7,793 which
the senator admitted spending in the
Wisconsin primaries had been used
corruptly.