The Glenwood post., 1912-03-30
GEN ERAL.

The New Jersey State Senate de-
feated resolution providing for the
right of suffrage for women.
The three-year strike of the sea-
mems union, involving $4,000 men on
the Great Lakes, has come to an end.
W. H. Walker, farmer living near
Murphysboro, H., missed a hawk and
shot and killed his eight-year-old boy
The Spiritualists in New York city
are to build a 100000 temple in the
heart of the fashionable Park West
section
A new crusade against the long hat
pin is being launched in New York
this time by the city's department of
health.
Gen. John w. Noble, who was secre-
tary of the interior in President Har-
rison's Cabinet, died in st. Louis re-
Gently
A negro convict, Home Howell, was
lynched at Cochran, Ga, after he had
killed Guard Joseph Coody in the con-
vict camp.
A monument to Robert Burns is to
be presented to the city of Boston as
gift from the Scottish organization
of the city.
A gas well struck near Silver Creek,
is flowing 100000 feet day. 1t is
the biggest gusher ever struck in New
York gas fields.
River men are apprehensive Of
floods along the Mississippi river be-
cause of the rapid breaking up of ice
and melting of snow.
Six inmates of the Huron county,
| Ohio, infirmary are dead as result of
asphyXiation. Seven others were over.
come but are recovering.
Chicago is soon to have a hippo.
drome with a seating capacity of G,100.
1t will be the largest auditorium used
exclusively as a theater in America.
a mob OF 500 broke into the Fort
Smith, Ark. jail and seized an uniden-
titled negro and hung him to a tele,
phone pole.
Miss Mary Lonergan, an artist of
kankakee, H., obtained a verdict of
| $4,000 against DR.. Daniel B. Hayden,
q Chicago physician, on the ground of
| breach of promise.
| Much anxiety is felt over the prob.
ability of floods in the Missouri river
watershed. Railroads are expecting
trouble. Dynamite, with which to break
up possible ice gorges, has been dis
tributed to various places. There is
more snow on the ground than for
many years at this season.
With the brain of a new born babe
substituted for a portion of his own,
William Buckner, a wealthy real es-
tate broker and operator of Cincinnati
is recovering from the rarest opera
ton ever performed in the Johns Hop
kins hospital at Baltimore. Buckner
had for months been in a state of
semi-coma.
Consideration by union officers of a
possible compromise in the wage de-
mands of the miners in the bituminous
coal fields of western Pennsylvania,
Ohio, Indiana and Illinois resulted in
| a decision that when the conference
with the operators is resumed the
miners will adhere to their original
| demand for a 10 per cent increase and
| shorter working hours.
The Delaware, Lackawanna & West
ern railroad was found guilty in Unit.
ed States District Court in Buffalo of
violating the commodities clause of
the Hepburn act and was fined $4,000.
The company was indicted on 20
counts and faced a maximum penalty
of 100000, the charge being that it
shipped free from Buffalo to Scranton,
Pa, a quantity of hay to be used in
| feeding mules in the mines
In gas explosion caused, it is be-
| ieved, by mine settings. nIne persons
were killed and two injured in Dun
more, near Scranton, Pa. Two families.
| comprising two women and seven
children were either blown to pieces
| in the explosion or burned in the fire
that followed and destroyed three
houses.
AS a result of the strike of the No
Kay stitchers at Lynn, Mass, who
number only about 200, some 1900 op-
eratives affiliated with them In ths
joint council Of the United Shoe Weeh
ers Of America went out