Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1901 — MINOR EVENTS OF TIE WEEK [ARTICLE]

MINOR EVENTS OF TIE WEEK

Items of Genera! Interest Told in .Paragraphs. COMPLETE NEWS SUMMARY. V Record of Happening* of Moeh or Llttl* Importance from All Part* of the Civilized World —Incident*. Enterprises, Accidents, Verdicts. Crimes and Wars* Church of the World organized by a Cincinnati lawyer. Allied villagers, which is a new name for the Boxers, have armed force of 25,000. Rear Admiral Irwin, retired, died after illness of several months. J. Pierpont Morgan probably ends Bteel strike by arranging mutual concessions, which the Amalgamated Association may ratify. Result of giant struggle between capital and labor is regarded as a draw. Drenching rains in five states of the great corn belt break the drought and revive the' shriveled orops. Millions of dollars will be saved to the farmers. Baron von Holderberg, who previous to his death Saturday at Lindenhurst, L. 1., had led an obscure life, came from a wealthy and aristocratic family in Germany. Thousands of homestead seekers at El Renov O. T., attend the lottery drawing for Kiowa-Comanche lands. The Union Pacific Railway, in lessening the distance to the Paciflo coast, accomplishes one of the greatest engineering feats of modern times. Health of London menaced by the product of its unsanitary bakehouse. Chinese slaves smuggled into the United States across the Mexican border. Hotel men disappointed at the attendance of the Baptist Young People’s convention at Chicago. J. H. Chapman re-elected president of the union. Cyrus Lake, 8 years old, robbed of 48, cents by several companions of his own age at Rogers City, Mich., and then drowned in a mill pond by them. Report in investigation of Indianapolis insanity trust shows that nearly half the persons examined were found sane. Jury, under instruction of the Judge, acquitted Robert S. Fosburg of the murder of his sister at Pittsfield, Mass. Total registration at El Reno for lands in Kiowa reservation was 167,006. Strike of cigarmakers closed nearly all the factories at Tampa, Fla. Rain has fallen in many places in the corn belt, relieving the drought. Earthquake felt in Nevada. The strike of the union ice handlers at Columbus, 0., for a ten-hour day and pay for overtime ended in a victory for the strikers. W. E. Moses of Denver has made claim to four islands near the mouth of the Maumee river at Toledo, O. The islands are valued at $150,000 and are now claimed by the state under the swamp act of 1860. After eighteen months of continued work it is announced that work on the telegraph line to Dawson will be entirely completed Aug. 1. Li Ching Fang, Li Hung Chang’s adopted son, is likely soon to be appointed minister to the United States, the empress dowager being suspicious of Wu Ting Fadg. Democratic state executive committee of South Carolina, by decree of Senator Tillman, passes resolution demanding resignation of Senator McLaurln on charge of treachery, to party. Government health officers found case of bubonic plague reported at New York to be the genuine disease. Three more cases discovered at San Francisco.

Excessive heat continued Wednesday throughout Kansas, Missouri and lowa. In St. Louis there were forty deaths and fifty prostrations, and fatalities In many other cities. Beatrice and Robert L. Fosburgh, the sister and father of Robert, told the etory of their sister’s murder. Their stories strengthened theory that crime was done by burglars. Russian and Imperial troops defeated In an encounter with rebels in southeast Manchuria. Foreign consuls warned to be prepared for another uprising. Secretary Long granted Admiral Schley’s request for a court of Inquiry and appointed Admiral Dewey presid- . ln * officer. Investigation of the charges to be most thorough. The body of James Freeman, a wellknown young man of Aurora, 111., was found on Hurd's Island. He had committed suicide by drinking carbollo acid. In a letter tp his mother he intimated that a quarrel with his sweetheart led to the deed. Dr. M. A. Arnbolt, ex-member of the Pennsylvania legislature and one of the prominent physicians In Pittaburg, shot himself through the heart The suicide was the result, it la supposed, of ill health, from which Dr. Arnoldt had suffered for the last two years. Chicago Presbytery found the Rev. E. T. Fleming guilty of lying, but acquitted him of improper conduct toward Mrs. F. 8. Dvorak. Representatives of three New York papers barred from Fosburgh trial at Pittsfield, Mass., for printing sV'es calculated to prejudice the Jury.