Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 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 Happenings of Mueh or Little Importance from All Porto of the Civilised World —Incidents. enterprises, Accidents, Verdicts. Crlmee and Wars. Kentucky judge Issued Injunction forbidding collection of union funds to aid strikers, the distribution of food to them, and forbidding the asking of others to strike. Mrs. McKinley improved sufficiently to sit up a short time Sunday. Crisis believed to have passed and that she will steadily Improve. Man believed to be William Gardhouse of Brampton, Ont., jumped into Niagara River, going over the falls. Great strike of machinists in many cities began Monday. Gen. Chaffee issued orders for the last of the American troops to leave Pekin. They started for Taku Monday." German force may be sent to Cheng-Tlng-Fu district. > Sultan of Turkey apologized to foreign ambassadors for stopping their mails. Thirty-one Servian gypsies who arrived at New York on the Pretoria ordered deported. Mystery of Father Phillips’ death at New York still unsolved. Two killed and three fatally injured in accident at steel works in Youngstown, O. Gen. Mascardo, with 321 Filipino insurgents, surrendered in Zambeles Province to Capt. O’Neil. * British trying to persuade Viceroy Liu Kun Yi to permit landing of English troops at Nankin. Phillips sold 1,500,000 bushels of May corn on the Chicago board of trade, closing his deal in that option with a total profit of $625,000. May make $160,000 more. S. R. Callaway resigned presidency of New York Central to become head of the locomotive trust. American troops left in Pekin will be supplied with munitions and supplies for six months. Mrs. McKinley showed marked improvement Friday after passing a favorable night. She is not yet out of danger, but the doctors are more hopeful of recovery, j Passed restless night. Four boys killed, five others probably fatally burned, by exploding fireworks at Bemidji, Minn. Body of Father Phillips of St. Gabriel’s church, Hazelton, Pa., friend of the miners, found in rooms of quack doctor at New York. Murder suspected. Woman made SIOO,OOO profit on sale of 200 shares Northern Pacific, but would not take it because it meant wreck of someone’s fortune. Blanche Reynolds, aged 7, of Harbor Beach, Mich., beaten to death by three playmates. Hypnotic subject killed during an exhibition at Woonsocket, R. I. Michigan university to erect SIOO,000 building for medical department. Steamships Moana and Louise Lamont lost in storm off Australian coast and forty-eight lives lost. Two thousand merchants in Pekin petitioned for retention of American troops in that cltyi. American methods of preserving order highly praised. General Cailles negotiating for surrender of Filipino force. Aguinaldo flooded with letters from anti-imperi-alists and museums. Presbyterian general assembly at Philadelphia elected as moderator the Rev. Dr. Henry C. Minton of San Anselmo, Cal. Illness of Mrs. McKinley at San Francisco assumes grave nature, making necessary the abandonment of the trip of the presidential party. Patient is unconscious part of the time and takes little nourishment. Paris banks withdrew $40,000,000 from London to be used for the Russian loan. Five thousand dozen bottles of Queen Victoria’s sherry to be sold at auction. French forces compelled submission of native African tribes in the Tehad province. Mrs. Nation declared guilty of jointsmashing at Topeka. Will probably be fined. General Fitz John Porter dying at Morristown N. J. Gov. Yates vetoed the fraternal insurance and ejectment bills. Legal means sought to close the Buffalo exposition on Sunday. Thirty-fifth annual encampment Illinois G. A. R. opened at Peoria, with--4,000 veterans in attendance. Mrs. Martha Ewart of Denver attempted to kill Joseph E. Choate, cousin of Ambassador Choate. Federation of musicians in convention at Denver adopted resolution declaring rag time music rot. Gov. Odell of New York Tuesday ordered out state troops to prevent rioting by street car strikers and their sympathizers at Albany and Troy. Mob attacked non-union men. ‘‘The man with the musical heart” dies at Elgin. Examination shows organ to have been four times normal size and that sounds given forth were due to peculiar gland disease. Gov. Yates of Illinois has reappointed Adjt.-Gen. Reese and the entire mil* itary staff.