Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 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 Moot, or Little Importance from All Parte of the CleHired World —Incidents. Eaterprieee, Accidents, Verdicts. Crimes and Wars. First clash in the great conflict oc- “ curred at McKeesport, Pa., and was caused by reported attempts of employers to import nonunion workers. Cardinal Martinelli, representing the pope, dedicated St Josephat’s Roman Catholic church in Milwaukee, the ceremonies being witnessed by 4,000 people. Closing meetings of the Epworth League convention at San Francisco were attended with great enthusiasm. Many delegates started homeward. ■Heat Sunday reached 103 degrees at Chicago’s official thermometer and 118 degrees on the street level, all former records being broken. Two deaths and several prostritions. Heat record broken throughout the corn belt. German Exchange bank of Chilton, Wis., may pay creditors 50 per cent cash lost in bad loans to two concerns which were allowed to borrow without limit Kansas temperance women destroyed a tent saloon at Eldorado and a policy shop at Leavenworth. Fort Scott saloons enjoined by court. Arthur McLaughlin and Effle Tipton eloped at New Ross, Ind. Girl’s father chased them ten miles. Postofflce at Mier, Ind., abolished, releasing Postmaster A. L. Fox, who repeatedly attempted to resign. Eighteen incendiary fires last month at Mattoon, 111., destroyed property worth $2,400,000. Burning ship sighted oft Greenland, Mich., but no signs of wreckage could be found. Epworth league convention at San Francisco held sessions at the pavilion and at the Alhambra Theater. Many addresses made. Man and woman arrested at Worcester, Mass., charged with attempt to extort SB,OOO from Millionaire C. S. Barton. Rabbi Frey of Wabash, Ind., declares he has invented a car that will travel 300 miles an hour over sea or land. Governor Durbin, in letter to State Department, denied story that Italian Consul was refused admission to hospital at Peru, Ind., where injured Italians were cared for. Union molders in several cities offered aid to the Chicago strikers. All hope of compromise in steel strike was ended by declaration of J. Pierpont Morgan upholding combine’s stand. Arbitration board gave up attempt to secure a conference. President Shaffer still confident of victory. Letters found in Steyn’s captured baggage reveal the desperate plight of the Boers. Ammunition nearly gone, threatened by a famine, and the force in the field disrupted by desertions. Arnesti Z. Gomez, who claimed to be ia grandson of General potnez, committed suicide in the Midway of the Buffalo exposition after trying to kill proprietor of “Streets of Mexico." International Epworth League convention opened at San Francisco with delegates present from all parts of the world. Welcomed by governor and mayor. German Exchange Bank of Chilton, Wis., failed, with liabilities of $600,000 and $400,000 assets. Receiver asked by the attorney general. War between the sugar trust and the beet sugar manufacturers of California is about to open. Tolstoi passed crisis in his sickness ‘and is out of danger. P. E. Paulen of Chicago committed suicide by hanging himself with strap used by daughter for her school books. St. Louis man went to sleep in barrel of tar and had to be chopped out. Scattering rains in the droughtstricken corn belt check the work of destruction, but drenching floods are needed to save the remnants of the crop. W. R. Miller, station agent of the Metropolitan Elevated road, shot and severely wounded in fight with holdup men, who robbed Hoyne avenue station at Chicago. The village park at Allegan, Mich., i recently purchased by the council, has been renamed Plngree Park in honor of the late ex-governor. Robert McKee, a school teacher, was •drowned in Big Muddy river near Murphysboro. 111., while swimming. His companion, Elmer Warson, had a narrow escape from death in trying to save the former. President Shaffer charges the steel combine is using Its $200,000,000 reserve fund to sustain the market and thus hurt the strike cause. Federation of Labor promises the strikers $500,©OO weekly. Mayor Jones of Toledo fined $5 and costs for contempt of court. Alexander Bush, postmaster at Mills, New Mexico, has been arrested, charged with embezzling postal funds. Xthel Pitch and Annie Gunn were drowned in the Mahoning river at Youngstown, Ohio. The little girls ijMsw in bathing and went beyond their