Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1901 — MINOR EVENTS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

MINOR EVENTS OF THE WEEK

Items of General Interest Told in Paragraphs. COMPLETE NEWS SUMMARY Record of Happening* of Mach or Little Importance from All Part* of the Civilized World —Price* of Farm Product* In We*tern Market*. General orders from Philippines describe “Guardia de Honor” band of natives organized for assassination.

Pope approved Vatican budget so 1901 amounting to $1,700,060. Contributions to Peter's pence 15,000,000. Total contributions, $6,000,000. Passenger train on the Northern Pacific breaks through a culvert and coaches are totally wrecked. Judge Richard Yates was inaugurated governor of Illinois at" Springfield Monday. Highwaymen at Chicago beat a bookmaker with revolvers and rob him of SSOO in money and jewelry. Five persons are killed* and fifty injured in a panic during a performance in West Twelfth street Turner hall, Chicago., _ Advices from Great Britain are to the effect that the queen’s government wifi accept the Hay-Pauncefote treaty, amendments and all. Police of Wilkesbarre, Pa., informed from Chicago Pat Crowe may be there.

Two girls, servants, burned to death in Buffalo, N. Y., apartment house. Island of Tutuila, Samoa, prospering under American rule. Burglars beat a man to death near Gorham, M«. St. Louis grandjury returned twentyfour true bills; twenty suppressed supposed to be against officials. Wedding of Miss Elsie French and Alfred Vanderbilt at Newport Monday. West Point academy on trial and cadets must answer all questions. Maurice Thompson, novelist, Crawfordsville, ..Ind., seriously Li. » Syndicate controls every theater In Broadway, New York. William Winter, the veteran dramatic critic, protests against placing art on a commercial basis. Louise Schaefer, teacher in public schools, New York, narrowly escaped being burned alive while in a trance. Mrs. Cyrus Taylor/Brazil, Ind., came to life after being pronounced dead. Land awaits old soldiers on Coman-che-Kiowa reservation in Indian territory. Indigent natives in Southren Luzon will be barred from overcrowded military hospitals. South American republic of Colombia tottering under the revolution. Owners of Manila railroad want SIOO,OOO damages. Paul Kruger said to be seriously ill at The Hague. Boers make daring raids daily near Pretoria. •’ Frank Brill, Chicafo, won national , contest for individual bowlers. President J. J. Hill of the Great Northern is said to be opposed to passage of bill authorizing pooling. Brooklyn man says his bride is held prisoner by her parents and seeks her release. * Mrs. Margaret Buchanan, New York, broke will of her husband, Alexander, obtaining $200,000. Three Chicago thieves worked three days on a job realizing $lO, and were Arrested. - Arguments on status of island possessions ended in supreme court. Request made for garden seeds to send to Filipinos, Coinage of last year $141,351,960, largest on record, William Waldorf Astor gave magnificent ball at Cliveden, Indicating return to society. Six hundred and fifty-two of Thir ty-seventh Infantry sailed from Manila for home. ■" Atlantic liner Ethiopa went ashore in the Firth of Clyde; lies in bad position. Boers attacked five British garrisons in dense fog and were driven back. In introducing kidnaping bill in New York legislature Senator Plunkitt stated on judicial, authority that Charley Ross was, drowned by abductors in New York bay. F. Hopkins Smith, before Newton club, Boston, declared “Uncle Tom’s Cabin an I'appaling," awful, criminal mistake.” . Sheriff tore up section of Chicago Southeastern railway in Montgomery county, Ind. Cadet explained boxing rules to congressional investigators at West Point. Gifts of apples and umbrellas to coupon ticket sellers caused row among western passenger agents. Distilling Company of America increased its capital by issue of $5,000,000 5 per cent bonds. The Wiener Tageblatt lays the decadence of commerce and industry in Europe to militarism. Ex-Gov. Lind of Minnesota assaulted Managing Editor Henry T. Black of the St. Paul Dispatch. Bill to enforce capital punishment introduced in Kansas legislature. General Manager Jarvis of Wisconsin Central resigned. New $5 notes from Honolulu’s First National bank puzzle Chicago bankers.