Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 April 1901 — MINOR EVENTS OF WEEK [ARTICLE]

MINOR EVENTS OF WEEK

Items of General Interest Told in Paragraphs. COMPLETE NEWS SUMMARY. Record of Happening! of Much or Little Importance from All Parts of the i Civilized VVorlcl — Incidents, Enterprises, Accidents, Verdicts. Crimes and War Korean governmnt will Inflict the death penalty for opium smoking. Three persons killed by the cars at South Wilkesbarre. Pa. Japan insisted on return of Chinese emperor to Pekin without further delay. Also demanded that Chinese army be sent to Manchuria to preserve order. Corea to fortify coast against possible Japanese invasion. Corean factions fighting over rightful heir to throne. Descendants of Andrew House met at Kokomo, Ind„ and learned his Maryland estate of $300,000,000 is a myth. Negro appointed postmaster at Raymond, Miss. Whites will send protest to Washington. * "Paul Kruger again reported stabbed. Mrs. Carrie Nation is to control affairs in Medicine Lodge for a week and promises an ideal Town. There Will be no saloons, no smoking, no police, and clean streets as well as other radical innovations if her program Is carried out. William A. Eddy tested new kite signal at Bayonne, N. J. Experiments with revolving lamps hanging In midair proved successful. Senator Bacon proposes congressional expedition to Philippines and secretary of war will give passage on army transports to those who wish to go. Removal of remains of Abraham Lincoln will be delayed two or three weeks because receptacle in new monument at Springfield is incomplete. Dun’s Review of Trade notes improvement in all lines of trade. Government report on wheat indicates continued prosperity. Governor Yates announces appointment of State Chairman Rowe as attorney for insurance department of Illinois. Filipino insurgents, Agancillo asserts In Paris, have selected General Sandico, now a prisoner, to succeed Aguinaldo as leader. Committee of ministers at Pekin agrees China can pay indemnity of at least $300,000,000' in gold, and probably more, without injuring her resources. Fifteen persons at Hackensack, N. J., bitten by mad dog. Strike stops work on new East River bridge. Gas trust, with $289,800,000, will he formed to take ff in all gas and many electric lighting companies of Greater New York. J. P. Morgan is quoted in London as saying American steel trust will help rather than hurt British market. Mrs. Florence K. Tickner of Melrose Park, 111., committed suicide because of arrest on trifling charge. Former insurgent General Delgardo appointed civil governor of Iloilo. Admiral Hichborn denies he opposes marriage of his daughter to James G. Blaine. Jr. * Isaac D. Mills appointed internal revenue collector in Eighth Illinois district. Judge Yost corroborated ex-Govern-or Bradley’s testimony about Taylor’s conversation with Ripley indicating a knowledge of plot against Goehel. James Millikan of Decatur, 111., gave $100,006 to Cumberland Presbyterian synod. Mob at Bradford, Pa., burned schoolhouse used as smallpox isolation hospital. W. H. Crampton, whose tongue is to be cut out at New York, talked a lecture Into a phonograph. Twenty members of the New York legislature and a lobbyist may be indicted for bribery. Smallpox developed from rummage Sale at Metropolis, 111. John B. Moflltt, 9 years old, who was stolen from hia foster parents, looated a/t Altoona, Wis., by a schoolmate. Northwestern road, It is rumored, may absorb the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha. Dredging trust of the companies on the great lakes planned with $10,000,000 capital. Youthful husband at Louisville, Ky., killed bride and himself after reading about Bluebeard. French, Italian and Spanish warships welcomed President Loubet to Toulon. Russian fleet welcomed him at Villefranche. Sale of two gypsy girls at Momenoe, 111., caused the band to be driven from the town by citizens. Restaurant at Battle Creek wrecked by employes of the owner of the site, who took this means to oust a tenant Ex-Governor Bradley in trial of Captain Ripley for complicity In Goeibel murder gave testimony tending to show W. S. Taylor knew of contemplated assassination. T. L. Arrington of Somerville, Ga., killed Miss Mamie Cleghorn and himself because latter’s parents objected ip their marriage. President to be given several characteristic animals of the south and a Voudou outfit on his visit to New Orleans.