The Glenwood post., 1912-01-27
GEN ERAL.

GENERAL.
During the first fifteen days of Jan.
uary the fire insurance companies OF
| the country became liable for $15, ,OOO,-
| 600 in losses.
Cyrus E. Woods of Greensburg, Pa,
has been nominated by President Taft
| as minister to Portugal to succeed Ed
win V. Morgan.
Fearing condition of chaos in Pc
king and northern China the powers
have agreed not to recognize the
Chinese republic.
DR.. Harry Elgin Webster, who con-
fessed to the murder of his wife, Bes-
sic Kent Webster at Oregon, ILL.,, was
sentenced to life Imprisonment.
Witnesses who are expected to
throw light on explosions on the Pa
cific coast are to appear before the
federal grand jury in Indianapolis in
the investigation Of the dynamite con-
spiracy
In the strike Of $1,000 textile work
ers in Lawrence, Mass, both manufac-
turers and strikers are remaining firm.
| While 5000 strikers voted almost unan-
imously to eject proposition to meet
the mill owners in separate commit
tees the various mill officers said they
would not deal with the strikers an
one body.
Badly mutilated. the bodies of Felix
Broussard. his wife and three schild-
rem, aged eight six and three, negroes,
were found in their home at Lake
Charles, La, making the second whole
\ sale negro murder in this state within
a week and the sixth within the year.
A blood-stained axe was found be-
were found in their hGme at Lake
lay.
Five persons were killed and more
than score injured when Seminole
Limited No. 8 running fifty miles an
hour crashed into the rear and tele-
scoped passenger train No. 25 stand
ing at the station at Kinmundy, III
Among those killed were j. 7. Hara-
han, former president of the Illinois
Central and F. o. Melcher, vice presi-
dent of the Rock Island.
The result of a conference between
Wilbur Wright, Capt. Def. Chandler
and other officers of the signal corps
at the army's aviation camp in Au-
gusta, Ca, will, it is stated, be the
development of a machine capable OF
carrying greater amount of army
equipment of necessary use in mill
tary aeronautics and of flying success
fully in winds which the present ma
chine cannot navigate.
A bill that will cause much excite
ment in the ranks of baseball men Is
to be introduced in the New York
State Legislature by Senator James
j. Frawley. one of the Democratic
leaders and author of the new law for
the regulation of boxing. 1t Is SEN
ator Frawleys plan to tax the gross
receipts of baseball clubs exceeding
a certain limit the money thus col
: lected to be turned over to the play
grounds in the leading cities and
towns
Some idea of the rapid growth and
present magnitude of the Forest Serv-
ice is given in the annual report of the
forester for the fiscal year 1911. From
a modest beginning only a few years
ago, the Forestry Bureau has grown
to be one of the largest bureaus in
point of the number of it's employees,
maintaining an establishment in Wash
ington alone costing almost 100000
annually; it expended last year more
than $G,500,000, and now exercises au-
thority over an area 16S, ,165, 163 acres
in extent. In 1911 it collected over
s2,O00,0O0 in grazing fees, and sold
timber from national forests for about
| half as much more.
Sentence of death was passed upon
Joseph Ferrone as, bound hand and
foot. and strapped to litter to pre-
vent his repeating his sudden attacks
on himself or others. he was taken
into the court of general sessions In
New York to hear the penalty fixed for
killing his wife, Kate Ferrone, Oct. "a,
1911.
| Three persons suffering from inhal.
ing gas were restored to consciousness
at Chicago by the use Of a new oxy-
gen machine which, with bellows IT.
tachment. forces oxygen into the lungs
] and draws out poisonous gases.