Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 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 Happeniags at Mash ar Llttla Importance from All Parts of the Civi Ized World—lncidents. Enterprises, Accidents, Verdicts. Crimes and Wars. Merritt Chism, a rich fanner of White Oak, 111., murdered his wife as she was about to attend church at Normal," 111. Adjt.-Gen. Reece a candidate for commander of Illinois department, G. A. R. William Phelps lost his life at Indianapolis to allow companion with a family to escape. E. F. Uhl, former United States ambassador to Germany, dying at Grand Rapids, Mich. Training ship Dorothea left I Philadelphia for Chicago. Re-election of Lant K. Salsbury city by the Grand Rapids council to be followed by £" grand jury investigation of alleged council boodllng. Inquiry into his arrest in Chicago,charged with embezzling $50,000 of K. C. Rarton of Omaha. Men on the inside say J. J. Hill could have prevented crash in Wall street by keeping promise to protect Union Pacific interests in Burlington deal. His foes bought Northern Pacific to retaliate. Hamburg-American line absorbed the Atlas steamship line, making the former company the largest in the world. Several big French firms made contracts for American coal. British representatives alarmed at the prospective loss of business. Powers considering advisability of naval demonstration against Turkey on account of postal question. Vienna newspaper said Monroe doctrine is being extended to mean Europe for the Americans. Wife of minister to Persia filed suit for a divorce in Rhode Island court. Illinois building at Pan-Anfferican exposition will be ready June 1. Chief O’Neill began war on Chicago’s street beggars. William Harris, aged 14, drowned while canoeing off Fifty-fifth street, Chicago. Hawaiian legislature by resolution asked the removal of Governor Dole for obstructing legislation. Enthusiasm of crowd at San Luis Obispo, Cal., to shake hands with President McKinley caused panic from which he was extricated with difficulty. , Seventeen persons injured in riot in Detroit caused by refusal of police to permit single tax speech by street orator. L. D. Horne of St. Paul, a naturalized Russian, paid $350 fine for evading army service in native country. Billy Bradburn made $1,500 in a Pittsburg bucket shop and tried to enforce collection with a shotgun. President McKinley reviewed floral parade at Los Angeles Thursday. City beautifully decorated in honor of the visitors. Chief executive escorted by cavalry. Expulsion of Italians from lola, Kas., in a labor fight to be investigated by the Italian government. President Franklin Carter of Williams college resigned. Last witnesses heard in Eastman case. Arguments of counsel began Fridav. Treasury officials declared legitimate commercial enterprise not affectdi by flurry in stocks. Three thousand farm districts now served by rural mail carriers at a cost of $3,500,000 a year. More routes projected. Methodists started movement at New York to raise $1,000,000 to pay church debts. Shamrock 11. lost its topsail in squall on the way to Weymouth. Locomotive trust to be formed of leading concerns In the country. Slump in American stocks caused wild time on London Exchange.W. C. Levere of Evanston, 111., will use liquid air to. destroy mosquitoes. Policemen D. A. Sheridan and Albert Swanson of Chicago force dismissed for abusing a citizen. Decision of controller of the treasury will make it easier hereafter to keep out objectionable immigrants. British Miners’ federation decided not to strike unless wages are cut as result of new coal tax. Insurgents in La Infanta province surrendered, ending war in north Luzon.

Charles Foster of Fostoria, former secretary of the treasury, filed petition in bankruptcy with >747,008 liabilities. Warren F. Furbeck & Co., stock brokers at 94 La Salle street, forced to suspend because of the slump in the new York stock market. Professor Eastman, in his cross-ex-amination at Boston, explained contradictory statements made before grand jurors. President McKinley and his party reached Los Angeles Wednesday after notable daylight ride through the San Bernardino valley. Welcomed to the state by Governor Gage at Redlands. Cardinal Martinelli invested with the red berretta by Cardinal" Gibbons at Baltimore.