Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 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 Mneh or Little Importance from All Parte of tbe Civilised World —Incident*. Enterprise*, Accident*, Verdict*. Crimea and War*. Mackay, the owner of Banastar, won $46,850 by the horse’s victory in the Metropolitan Handicap at New York. Last of the legislators left Springfield, 111., Sunday. Speaker Sherman slowly improving. Presidential party welcomed at El Paso, Tex., by the personal representative of President Diaz of Mexico. Cordial messages exchanged. Battleship Ohio to be launched at San Francisco on May 18. Mrs. McKinley to press button setting ship afloat Commissary depot established at Jacksonville, Fla., for the relief of fire sufferers. Militia enforcing martial law. Steamship Northwestern struck bottom repeatedly In going through St. Clair river. Hull may be damaged. Men who deserted wivss in Minnesota to be punished under new law making it a felony. Durno, a magician, robbed of $2,000, his season’s profits, while showing at Kewanee. 111. Fifty Brule Sioux Indians engaged in a fight at Valentine, Neb., and one was killed.

Twelve persons injured tn trolley collision at Akron, O. Passengers on steamer City of Chicago, in midlake, see hi i rage bringing to view at the same time buildings in Chicago and St. Joseph. Five-year-old girl lost on the prairies of Washington was found dead of starvation in a badger hole, having wandered without food or water five days and nights. Former Secretary of State John W. Foster, replying to a critic, quotes eminent authority to prove that the singular verb is correct as applied to the United States. Edwin H. Conger, minister to China, and his family were given a public reception by the people of Des Moines, at which congratulations were exchanged. President McKimey and party given warm welcome on travels in Texas; entertained at Austin by state officers. Visit San Antonio today. Eastman prosecution loses vital point through exclusion of defendant’s statement to grand jury. Defense opens its case. Kaiser accepts defeat of the canal bill and closes the Prussian diet, but he forces Von Miquel to resign, and other cabinet changes follow. Forty thousand Italian emigrants are booked to sail for the United States this month. w Census returns show- population of London to be 4,536,034, a gain of 308,717 in the last ten years. R. G. Dun & Co. report trade In wonderfully healthy condition, labor difficulties fewer than for several years, demand for merchandise active and prices well held. Failures for April show smallest defaults In ninety-one months. Chicago bankers loaning money in Wall street at sto 6 per cent. The Grinnell, lowa, Congregational church voted to call council of churches to try Prof. Herron for conduct unbecoming a minister. Mrs. Herron denied interview in which she defended her husband. FJnal terms to China outlined by Indemnity commission. The total indemnity, including private claims, fixed at $325,000,000. Powers may have to guarantee Chinese bonds. President McKinley and party occupied Thursday In Inspecting New Orleans, and left In the evening for Houston, Tex. Mrs. R. H. Grogan, mother of Prof. Eastman’s victim, Boston, testified that her son was repeatedly threatened by Eastman. Rigid economy to be practiced to reduce the expenditure of the army to a peace basis. Secretary Root ordered officers to avoid unnecessary expense. Capt. McCalla to succeed Capt. Folger In command of the new battleship Kearsarge.