Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 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 Much or Little Importance from All Part, of the Clv--1 (zed World —Incidents. Enterprise*. Accidents, Verdicts. Crimes and Wars. Fire destroyed a house at Lyndhurt, N. Y., in which deaths had occurred in nearly every family occupying it. Structure declared haunted by all its tenants. Oil discovered near Evanston, Wyo., in the Rocky Mountains. General MacArthur arrived at San Francisco on the transport Sheridan. Declared the insurrection ended and the Philippines rapidly returning to peaceful conditions. J. A. Boldt, ex-Secretary of Cleveland Guarantee Savings and Loan association, arrested for embezzling $1,500. Adjutant General Reece appointed Commander-in-Chief of Uniform Rank of Foresters. Professor Dickson of Yale succeeded in grafting part of an adder to a rattlesnake’s body. . Young white girl murdered by a negro near Pierce City, Mo. Mob pursuing aer slayer. Three men killed and eleven hurt in a blast furnace accident at Youngstown, O. Manj- pleasure boats believed to have met disaster in the storm along the Gulf of Mexico. Six drowned near the mouth of the Mississippi. infernal machine sent by express to Sheriff Ackman at Carmi, 111. Contained gunpowder, dynamite, and matches. Boys at Saginaw, Mich, imprisoned big flock of sheep in barn and set Are to the structure. Edwin Manning, a pioneer resident of lowa, worth several million, died at Keosauqua. . Permit issued in Chicago asked for a $1,000,000 hotel structure to be built on Captain Streeter’s land. Exports to Porto Rico during the last fiscal year were three timfes as much as when island was under Spanish rule. New tiled air chamber beneath the floor of the House of Representatives corhpleted.

■Wireless” message sent to Sandy Hook from steamship Lucania when 287 miles at sea. Usual methods of reporting arrivals beaten by several hours. Lucania informed of news by same means. - Former Chief of Police Devery of New York declared Lawyer Moss and those conducting the crusade against the police are a gang of high-binders. Denied wrong doing. Central Union Telephone company to raise $3,500,000 by reducing present capital stock one-half, then increasing issue 100 per cent. E. P. Thompson, former postmaster at Havana, convicted of defrauding the government. Commissioner of Immigration to urge more stringent Chinese exclusion law.

Lieutenant Grant of Sixth Cavalry captured Colonel Calerera in Batanzas Province. Destroyer Whipple, Truxton and Worden launched at Baltimore shipyards. Arch Rock, in San Francisco Bay, blown up by thirty tons of nitrogelatin. Rocks and debris hurled 1,000 feet in the air by the explosion and many fish killed. Northern Pacific official invented method of sending telephone and telegraph messages over same wire. Agnes and Isabelle Gales, aged 8 and 7 years, were drowned at Coburg, Mont., while playing at a dam. The population of Kansas, according to the assessors’ census, is 1,467,808, a net increase in one year of 23,100. The largest gain was 6,509, in Wyandotte; the largest loss, 2,059, in Cherokee county. A premature explosion of dynamite at Stuart, I. T., killed William Pinkston of Forest City, Ark., and John Marsh of South McAlester. Jacob Ruth was killed and John Heller fatally injured by the breaking of an elevator on which they were working at Wheeling, W. Va. They fell four stories. Bill extending government help to a project to shorten the time of transatlantic voyages to four and one-half days is hastened toward passage by the British house of lords. American capital is back of the scheme. Physicians in London want insurance companies to refuse to issue policies to Christian Scientists, who welcome the issue and say death rate among them’is lower than among any other class of people. A lone highwayman held up and robbed a stage in the Adirondacks, relieving a party of tourists of about |l,ooo in cash and rifling mail-pouches. A thousand poor children of Poughkeepsie enjoy their annjial free ride over Russell Sage’s railroad and picnic at his Upton Lake park. • ■ Dr. R. A. Castle, said to be formerly of Galesburg, 111., committed suicide at Healdsburg, Cal., by hanging himself from a tree with a knotted handkerchief. Army Board of Ordnance and Fortification to meet at the Buffalo Expoon Ana ~0.