Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 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 Mnoh me Little Importance from AU Parte of the Civilised World —Incident#, Enterprise#, Accident#, Verdict#. Crime# and War Dr. George C. Hopkins of the University of Illinois succeeded in improving the chemical composition of the oorn kernel after five years of experimenting. Three masked men family of John Andigo, a farmer, near Kendallville, Ind., and robbed him of 13,000. Chinese quarter in San Francisco raided in attempt to break up traffic In female slaves. Three person drowned while attempting to cross the Potomac river at Green Springs. Washout near Charleston, W. Va., caused train wreck in which conductor •was killed. Dam at Mlddlefleld, Mass., destroyed (by flood and several houses swept away. Three hundred wheelmen to take trip from Milwaukee to Buffalo in August. Governor Ross, Alaska’s new executive, Inaugurated at Dawson. Aguinaldo’s manifesto to the Filipino people advised the insurgents to lay down their arms and accept the sovereignty of the United States. One thousand Filipino prisoners released. Franco-German expedition to Chinese province of Chili abandoned on aesurance Chinese force will withdraw from threatening positions. London Spectator, commenting on an interview with Count Canevaro of Italy, said America’s attitude on China annoys the powers. British officers rewared by King Ed- ! ward for their services in South As- ; rlca. Kitchener made lieutenant-gen- ' era!. * Mrs. P. D. Armour inherited half of ; $250,000 estate of her brother, Frank M. Ogden of Cincinnati. Combine of vessel owners expects to fix price for freight during coming season. Two hundred persons reported to have frozen to death in Alaska. Joe Wagner, 13 years old, accidentally locked in a freight car and carried from Chicago to Council Bluffs. Josiah, Flynt, for whom the police are looking, interviewed the chief of detectives without the latter being aware of his identity. British expedition punished natives \ of Somali country for murder of Subcommissioner Jenner. Mayors of Cuban cities charged with ignoring electoral laws imposed by the United States. Body of General Swartzkopf found in palace ruins at Pekin. Perished trying to save dog. Austrian crown prince aroused ire of kaiser’s subjects by anti-German declarations. Czar invited French minister of foreign affairs to St. Petersburg for a conference. Court decided duke of Manchester need not pay $2,500 commission to loan •broker. New political party, “The, Greater New York Democracy,” organized to fight Tammany Hall. Resolutions adopted ascribing ills of the city to Croker’s organization. Transport Rosencrans arrived at San Francisco, after taking forty-three Filipino generals to Guam as prisoners of war. President asked by representatives of the Boers to prevent British shipment of mules from New Orleans. The written opinion of Justice Gray in the North Dakota divorce case indicates merely that state laws must be observed or the decree is invalid. Miss Sartoris, grandaughter of U. S. Grant, engaged to Archibald Bal- . four of London. Chicago rats to be exterminated by the use of poison virus which has been successfully tested ia Paris. Charles H. .Sweer-.y of Nashville, Tenn., went to Chicago when he heard his wife contemplated a divorce suit, and killed her and himself. Saloonkeeper Marzen, twice convicted of murdering Fritz Holzheuter, must serve thirty years at Joliet. National league season began Thursday, but only one game was played, Brooklyn beating the Philadelphias 12 to 7. House of commons authorized British chancellor to borrow $3,000,000 for war purposes. A. J. Schroth, bookkeeper of First National bank of Birmingham, Pittsburg, Pa., arrested, charged with embezzling $35,000. Chinese indemnity claims of French departments of war. marine and colonies are 193,000,000,000 francs. Sir Alfred Milner in. South African blue, book, just issued, expressed gloomy view of Boer war. Recruit drowned in attempting to escape from David’s Island. Liquor interests reported to have raised corruption fund to influence legislation at Honolulu. Chief of Marinduaue Insurgents and aixty-one men surrendered to American troops. Convict in New Mexico penitentiary ikilled while trying to escape.