Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 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 Much or Little Importance from All Parte of the Civilized World —Incident*, Enterprise*, Accident*, Verdicta. Crime* and War. 'Engineers’ strike likely to tie up fifty-eight Milwaukee 'boats. Charles R. Flint, trust organizer, declared the commercial supremacy of the United States to be due to consolidated management. Ice in the Mississippi at La Crosse went out, causing great damage to the levee. Northwest Texas swept by one of the worst blizzards of the season. M. Waldeck-Rousseau’s indisposition said to be pretext to avoid accompanying President Loubet to Toulon on April 10. Accident to dredger caused blockade of ships in Suez canal, including the Ophir, with the Duke of York aboard. William believes that the Injury he received at Bremen was caused by a bullet from an air gun. Lieutenant Dean and thirty men of the Sixth Cavalry cut their way through 200 Insurgents In Calisay. •Student slayer of Russian minister of public instruction sentenced to twenty years’ Imprisonment. Abnormal activity reported at the various Japanese arsenals. Large stocks of coal and war material are being accumulated. Japan protested to Russia against signing Manchurian convention. High officials look for war. Chinese court expected to issue edict announcing refusal -to ratify RussoChinese convention. Woman killed and two children injured iby falling from Table Rock, near Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Force of 1,500 Boers under General Delarey defeated at Vantersdorp with loss of 140 prisoners and nine guns. Standard Oil company to pay $5,000,000 to Salt Lake City men for device to convert oil into gas. Majority of Cuban Committee on Relations opposed to terms of Platt amendment. j United States Minister Leishman presented his credentials to Turkish Sultan. „ Russia said to have given China until April 1 to sign Manchurian treaty. Another battle reported between Mexican troops and Yaqui Indians. Slxto Lopez cabled Aguinaldo from Boston to request permission to come to America. Generous treatment for Aguinaldo suggested by many American editors. War department at Washington informed Aguinaldo cannot speak Spanish. Threatened strike in hard coal region averted. Class fight at Ann Arbor, Mich., stopped by sheriff. Two men, declared to be notorious mail box robbers, bank thieves, and forgers, arrested at Omaha. Neb. George A. Fuller company, largest construction concern ever organized, to be incorporated at Trenton, N. J., with $20,000,000 capital. Maurice Barrymore, the actor, was talfen to the pavilion for the insane at Bellevue Hospital, New York, and committed for treatment by his son. Kaiser caused amazement by expressing fear of revolt in speech to soldiers and telling them to be ready to guard him from attack. Committee of Cuban convention made oflve different reports on Platt resolution Officially announced at Shanghai China will not sign Manchurian treaty. commission received Sultan of the Sulus on board the Sumner. Mark Twain’s reply to missionaries in China, who said he had been unfair to them and, demanded an apology; taken from advance sheets of North American Review. Kentucky Court of Appeals granted new trials to Powers and Howard, convicted of complicity in Gobel murder. G. W. Thatcher, claim agent, arrested at Dayton, 0., on charge of forging P. P. Most’s name to $32,000 note. Two-year-old stakes at Little Rock won by Miss Dora. Nebraska legislature elected two Republican United States senators —Governor Charles H. Dietrich for short term and Joseph H. Millard of Omaha for long term. State department assured that present agreement between Russia and China is merely a modus vivendi. People of Kansas booming General Funston for senator or governor. Aguinaldo will probably be sent to Guam as prisoner of war and General Funston likely to be made brigadiergeneral in the regular army. General MacArthur authorized to consider propositions advanced by rebel leader. Baseball emissaries scouring country to sign players. < Admiral Dewey believes capture of Aguinaldo by Funston will end Philippine insurrection. Rear Admiral Evans said the best way to find a man like Aguinaldo Is to find him dead.