Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1901 — ITEMS OF INTEREST. [ARTICLE]

ITEMS OF INTEREST.

There are 344 cities and towns in New York state which have a public water supply. An 11-year-old boy is the manager and operator at the telegraph office in Kingstree, S. C. Two hundred thousand acres In Chihuahua. Mex., have been bought for 400 colonists from Missouri. Among 100,000 Germans there are twenty-one suicides every year, most of them aged between 20 and 30. The foreign commerce of the port of Boston last year aggregated $190,485.000, surpassing all previous records.