Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 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 H*pp«li|a of Much or Little Importance from All Parte of the Clrllieed World—lncident,. Enterprise#, Accidents, Verdicts. Crimes and Wars. Report on exports of farm products In 1900 showed twelve nations expended over 110,000,000 each for American products. Second avenue elevated train left track and one car crashed into Shea’s Hotel, New York. Panic caused In hotel and on the train, but no one was hurt. Lightning caused fire which destroyed the stock barns and the valuable horse Faust of Henry Darlington at Mamaroneck. Edward Luty, a New York bookmaker, killed his wife because she was late in getting his dinner, then committed suicide. W. E. Sltzgerald, head of Milwaukee branch of American Shipbuilding company, dies of injuries caused- by explosion of acetylene gas at his summer home. Use of streets for Dowie meetings at Waterloo, la., forbidden because of recent riots. Gypsies who kidnapped Thomas iWelch of Mattoon, 111., said to have two other captives. Railways unable to furnish sufficient cars to move the Kansas wheat crop. Another kissing bug epidemic started by the Reduvius personatus or some other member of the order of cannibal bugs. Victim, treated at the Casualty Hospital, Washington, D. C. Commerce with Porto Rico showed big Increase during last year, the exports exceeding those of 1898 by 300 per cent i j Court order will be asked enjoining the opening to settlement of the IKiowa-Commanche-Apache Indian reservation.

Policeman Michael O’Malley of Chicago probably fatally stabbed by thugs. Clang sought revenge for killing of .companion by Patrolman Ryan. Roy Powell, aged 18, convicted at Freeport, 111., of killing JJiopdbury Worki’nger and given thirty yearh’ imprisonment. Emanuel Koehler, aged 12, killed In quarrel by Raymond Albers, aged 13, at Albany, N. Y, Slayer committed suicide, S. R. Dawson, who killed a man, paroled from lowa prison so he can tell how to make Damascus steel. Continued dry weather affecting condition of corn In the Southwest. Traders fear drought will injure crop.' Strikes in steel mills and intense heat caused falling off in trade activity. Houston Oil company, with $30,000,000 capital, incorporated in Texas. Buenos Ayres under martial law, which was declared because of rlo<ts toy those who objected to government's plan of refunding public debt British government planning to build this year three battleships of an improved class, six cruisers, and ten destroyers. Mrs. Edward Becker, a bride from London, robbed and deserted by her husband at Montreal. 'Salmon trust to be Incorporated in New Jersey. Jacob S. Rogers, the locomotive builder, left nearly all his fortune to the Metropolitan Museum. It may reach $7,760,000. Other bequests amounted to $250,000. John S. Hannah of the Chicago Board of Trade died after a surgical operation. California girl at San Bernardino ▼aded her home. American administration in Cuba praised at Santiago by Spaniard in speech on anniversary of Cervera’a defeat Pierre Lorlllard, Sr., arrived on the Deutschland, probably fatally ill from a complication of troubles, of which Bright’s disease is the principal one. Postmaster General Smith planning reform in system of carrying periodical in mails at pound rates to shut out spurious publications. Porto Rican legislature passed resolution president to proclaim free trade for the Island as provided by i Port, ter law. Parc t foundry and machine shop at ■CasM'.s, Conn., attacked by strikers, who dr-il sky rockets at non-union ptorinuea !a the buildings.