Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 July 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 Mach or Little Importance from All Parts of the Civilized World —Incidents, Enterprises* Accidents* Verdicts. Crimes nnd Wars. Last of the volunteer army mustered out yesterday at San Francisco within the time fixed by law. Maj.-Gen. Shafter discftarged as officer of volunteers. New Chinese capital to be established in Ho Nan Province, the Empress Dowager fearing to live in Pekin. Combination of oilcloth manufacturers under way at New York. Sunday crowd at Coney Island numbered 200,000. Dr. Ruppert, a clairvoyant at New York, disappeared after getting SI,OOO from a woman to invest for her. Indictment of Fire Commissioner Scannel for defrauding New York city caused alarm among Tammany men. Frauds unearthed more extensive than in Tweed’s time. Heat Sunday caused twelve deaths in Pittsburg, an equal number in New York, and fatalities in other cities. Hospitals filled with prostration cases. City National Bank of Buffalo, which was put in charge of a temporary receiver by Controller_ot the Currency, will go into liquidation. Six-masted schooners George W. Wells and Eleanor A. Percy collided Off Cape Cod, causing $30,000 damage Constable killed in fight with two Kentuckians near Metropolis, 111. New York Central to be asked to use electricity as motive power of engines in city limits. Interocean Telephone and Telegraph company formed. Six strikers killed by soldiers and twenty wounded in a riot at Ferrara, Italy. Chinese rebels in Province of Shenking burned several villages and killed hundreds of natives. Through mistake China agreed to pay $24,500,000 more indemnity than powers demanded. Lightning struck tent of Wallace’s circus at Eau Claire, Wis., killing an elephant and shocking several persons. Great damage done at La Crosse, Wis., by a tornado, which wrecked several business places. Boston doctor to fast a month to prove such treatment will cure all illness. J. L. White and his family tortured by six robbers near Wheeling, W. Va. Four walled cities in Manchuria seized by Chinese bandits. Gold brick valued at $200,000 sent to Ashcroft, B. C., from Carriboo Consolidfctid Hydraulic Mining company. President Palmer of Rio Grande and Western sold his interest in road to Gould interests for $6,000,000. Wife of Kansas farmers who refused to pay blackmailer $5,000 roasted alive in their dwelling. Three thousand Boers made attack on Richmond in Cape Colony, but were repulsed after twelve hours’ fight. Austria resumed diplomatic relations with Mexico, which were broken in 1867 by execution of Maximilian. Minister at Detroit asked jjlvorce because wife made him do the washing on Sunday and get hi* own meals. She sometimes threatened him with an ax. General Gomez arrived at Tampa on his way to Washington and New York. Will confer with Secretary Root and Palma. Lightning killed first baseman in a ball game at Monroe Center, 111., and shocked several other players and spectators. T. G. Barker sentenced to five years In penitentiary for attack on the Rev. John Keller. Helen Fifield returned to Janesville, Wis. Said she was in trance when she left home. Announcement made at Harvard alumni dinner of gift of $1,000,000 to the university by J. Pierpont Morgan. Commencement exercises held, 1,055 degrees being conferred. George Williams, dying at Vinita, I. T., confessed murder of T. E. and Green Smith at Pryor Creek, I. T. Oil tank at Decatur. Ind., struck by lightning and 50,000 barrels of petroleum destroyed. Additional details of West Virginia flood indicate death list will exceed 100. • Paris paper declared Pope seriously 111.