Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 June 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 Much or Little Importance from All Part* of the Clrlllzed World —Incidents. Enterprises. Accidents, Verdicts. Crimes and Wars. Pressure from outside having an effect on Cuban constitutional convention. Radicals expected to come over. Lieut. Springer of the Twenty-first Infantry killed by Filipino insurgents. Several others wounded. Branch of Dowies Zion started at Kenosha, Wis., with 116 members. Cuban colonies in New York and Washington warned Cuban .constitutional convention to act quickly on the Platt amendment, as the independence of the island was at stake. Big orders for American railway material given by lines in Ecuador. British bidders defeated in attempts to get the contracts. Collision of two old locomotives the principal feature of an entertainment given by. the Brotherhood of Trainmen at Terre Haute, Ind. The Rev. A. C. Dixon of the Ruggles Street Baptist Church, Boston, declared Christian Science a humbug. Scored Mrs. Eddy. Secret instructions sent to the Chinese envoys to restrict the free action Of the powers. Mrs. McKinley gaining Monday, but not out of danger. Congressman Grosvenor of Ohio declares conditions justifiable for electing a President for a third term. Detectives found $13,000 at Mineral Point, Wis., which was stolen from the First National Bank. New York Central road ordered fiftytwo locomotives from American Locomotive company. Lackawanna line asked bids on sixty. General Manager W. C. Brown of the Burlington is to be the new president of the Lake Shore road. Five batteries of field artillery and three companies of coast artillery to be formed. Hugh Tevis, the California millionaire, who was married in April, died in Japan while on wedding trip. Harry Lewis of Philadelphia became Insane when offered position on White Stocking team. College system of China changed by order of the government. Future examinations to be conducted on subjects relating to modern ideas. Rapid transit plans of the Yerkes syndicate welcomed by Londoners as likely to solve the transportation problem in that city. General Grant declared Aguinaldo should be sent to the rock pile. Pottawatomie Indians held secret pow wow at Hartford, Mich., and the whole tribe decided to move on Chicago on June 22. Nels Nelson, a farm hand near Sycamore, 111., killed Mrs. John Lydig, for whom he recently worked, because she refused to marry him. Then he killed himself. Lieut R. H. Townley sentenced to dismissal from navy by court-martial at Manila. Gunboat yacht Mayflower ordered to Venesuela to look after American interests. Ninety Indiana coal operators, controlling 119 mines, preparing to consolidate. Seventy machinists in two Chicago plants Joined the strikers. Prof. Tubbs of Wesleyan College, Salina, Km., refused re-election because of' his heretical views. ®. E. Plane, heir to a large estate in lowa, committed suicide at Chicago. One-fourth of the candidates for the new class at West Point failed to pass physical examination. Armour Institute, Chicago, to bar girl students after the present term ends. Young women indignant because not allowed to finish their education. Miss Mabel Lawrence Burt, a former Student of Smith College, arrested charged with stealing $2,000 worth of jewelry from college dormitories. Woman near Oape Fair, Mo., with the help of her son, murdered stepdaughter. Mob threatens burning at