Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1901 — MINOR EVENTS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

MINOR EVENTS OF THE WEEK

Items of General Interest ToTd in Paragraphs. COMPLETE NEWS SUMMARY. u « Record of Happenings of Much or Little Importance from All Parts of the Civilized World —Incident*. Enterprises, Accidents, Verdicts. Crimes and Wars. General Callies and 500 Filipino riflemen surrendered at Santa Cruz. H H. S. Church of Louisville, Ky., after living for two days in a room with murdered woman, committed suicide. Agricultural department experimenting with a view to increasing yield of corn crop. _____ __ Correspondent of a London paper , wrote that Boer invasion of Cape Colony is getting serious, Invaders gaining recruits. Non-union laborers attacked and roughly handled by a mob at Columbia, S. C. Naphtha launch Estelle sunk by a steamer in Boston harbor and two lives lost. Washington and Great Northern railway incorporated at Seattle. Line 250 miles long to be built. Missouri lead and zinc mines to be consolidated by Eastern capitalists. French critic blamed poor taste of wives of American millioilaires for inferiority of American art. Seven persons killed by a cyclone in northern Nebraska, five of them being members of one family living nedr Naper. Four fatally injured. Strikers and mine guards fought battle at Matewan, W. Va. Superintendent of the mines and a guard wounded, the latter mortally. Escaping convicts at Fort Spelling used a woman to shield them from bullets of the guards, but were recaptured. Mrs. Ludington, widow of former Governor of Wisconsin, given $250,000 dower Interest in his estate by the courts. Indians threaten to resist by force the opening of the Kiowa-Commanche reservation to white settlers. Congregational Church of Grinnell, la., formally dropped name of Professor Herron from rolls. State troops sent to Trinity, Tex., to protect a negro from a mob which planned to lynch him. Justice Jerome, at New York, angered by light sentences Imposed on gamblers, disclosed that the $7,400 check captured in a raid was made out in favor of Frank Farrell. In the Barker-Keller case at New York women members of the latter’s church attempted to destroy Mrs. Barker’s reputation for veracity. Case to be summed up today. Senator Burrows preparing constitutional amendment to remedy evil of non-representation in senate when legislature fails to elect W. C. Brown’s resignation as general manager of the Burlington roa4 accepted by the directors. F. A. Delano to succeed him. Andrew D. White, ambassador to Germany, said to be contemplating resigning. Joseph Chamberlain planning visit to the United States. West Virginia health offlc&rs chained passenger train to track to compel company to move smallpox car hospital. Two women, members of a firm of stock brokers at New York, incorporated billion dollar mining company. Prof. Riggs of Field Museum, Chicago, unearthed bones of a dinosaur near Grand Junction, Colo. General Electric company negotiating at New York for'purchase of British Thomson-Houston Company. Chinese troops on their way to Pekin stopped by the French, In ignorance of Count Waldersee’s orders for them to proceed. Philippine commission decided Spanish shall be the official language in Philippine courts for five years. Priest celebrating mass in the Church of Nantes, Paris, attacked by a woman armed with a hatchet as he knelt at the altar and fatally wounded. Sought revenge for expulsion from church order. Girls expelled and suspended at New Haven, Conn., Normal Training School for disrespectful conduct. Public ownership reformers, Populists and others met In Kansas City to form new allied party. Carnegie to erect monument to Jas. G. Blaine in Schenlev Park. Pittsburg. Gen. Miles made an LL. D. by Brown University. . College endowment now amounts to $2,000,000. Bert A. Magee of Watseka, 111., arrested, charged with causing the deaths of three persons. Smith College at Northampton, Mass., given SIOO,OOO by man whose identity is withheld. Presbyterian Committee on Creed Revision met at Pittsburg to draw up amendments. Senator W. A. Clark sued at New York by Prof. G. A. Treadwell to recover $30,000 wprth oLcopper stock. Independent senes oF revenue stamps to be issued for Porto Rico. Gen. Botha and other Boer leaders reported to have decided to repudiate Kruger’s authority. Patti's castle failed tn bring $250,0*9, the upset price, and si|e bid in ths property at $225,000. Prison ship to be provided for the