The Glenwood post., 1912-01-06
GENERAL.

Thirty-eight days from Tsingtau,
China, the British bark Calcutta has
| arrived, establishing new record for
the journey.
Twelve hundred letters of Christ
mas greeting and sympathy came to
James Whitcomb Riley, the Hoosier
poet, who has beenlill several months.
The ST. Louis Livery and Undertak-
ing Association has announced an In.
crease of 81 on every carriage and 81
on every hearse used in funerals in
that CITY,
| Miss Clara Barton, founder and first
president of the American Red Cross
Society, was showered with greetings
and good wishes on the ninetieth an
niversary of her birth.
When Charles Richards of Belvi.
dere, ILL.,, was sentenced to life i'm.
prisonment for the murder of his wife,
he implored the court to make the
sentence death instead. He pleaded
guilty. .....t.,..
| Many earthquakes and one or two
days in which she encountered un.
usually heavy seas featured the voy.
age of the Pacific mail liner, Penn.
sylvania, which arrived in port from
| Panama.
January production in the iron and
steel industry promises to be between
eighty and eighty-five per cent. of the
total capacity, against seventy-five
per cent. during the last three months,
| is the consensus of the weekly steel
market reviews.
King Davis, negro, aged 2S, who
shot ard killed Frederick A. Schwab
| (white), at Fairfield, Anne Arundel
| county, Maryland, was taken from the
lookup at Brooklyn, suburb of Bal.
timore, and shot to death by small
| party of unknown men.
That frost has reached at least TWEEN.
| ty per cent of the orange crop in the
interior of southern California is in
dicated by reports received. Whether
| this fruit will be ruined depends, the
growers say, on the weather condi-
tions for the next few days.
Arthur F. Griffith of Milford, Ind,
| lightning calculator who has bewil-
dered vaudeville attendants through
| out the country for number OF years
| by his mathematical wizardy, was
found dead of apoplexy in his bed at
Springfield, Mass, hospital.
Andrew Mcconnell, magazine writer
and lecturer, was arrested at a report.
er's desk in a morning newspaper Of
flee in New York while, it is alleged.
he was writing a confession of shoot
| ing and wounding his divorced wife.
Mrs. Marion d. Mcconnell, at Ocean
| Grove, N. j.
In a report filed with the clerk of
the Federal Court, the Northwestern
Lumbermen's Association answered
| the complaint of the government
charging that the association was gull
ty of acts in restraint OF Interstate
trade in lumber products. The an
swer is a general denial of all charges.
At the age of 60 Henry Coke, New
Mexico pioneer, died at Las Vegas, N.
NJ. after prolonged illness. Mr..
Coke leaves a fortune estimated at
$75O,0OO. For forty-seven years he re-
sided in Sapello, where he conducted
general store and was postmaster
for thirty-seven years.
More time is to be saved for the
stenographer; more space is to be
placed at the disposal Of the letter
writer and thoughts are to be ex-
pressed direct, without waste, in .
new alphabet adapted to meet the mod
ern demands of scientific management,
according to Professor Fred Newton
Scott of the University of Michigan,
who presented simplified phonetic
alphabet In an address before the Mod
ern Language Association at the UAk
yersity OF Chicago.