Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1901 — MINOR EVENTS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

MINOR EVENTS OF THE WEEK

Items of General Interest Told in. Paragraphs. COMPLETE NEWS SUMMARY. CUeord o* Happening;* of Mneh or Little Importance from All Parte of the Civilized World—lncident.. Enterprises. Accidents, Verdicts. Crimes and Wars Two girls, aged 11 and 12, respectively, perform daring feat of swimming the Narrows, at New York. It is reported at San Francisco that E. H. Harriman will succeed C. M. Hays as president of the Southern Pacific and that E. St. John will be hla assistant. Four special policemen fight with 200 strikers and sympathizers in San Francisco. Seven men are shot, one of whom will die. Regular police arrest thirty of the mob, all of them heavily armed. Former Gov. W. S. Taylor of Kentucky is being closely guarded by Indiana friends, who hear of a plot to abduct him and take him back to Kentucky. Pastor at Kembell Springs, Ky., shot at while in the pulpit by man he had ordered to leave the church. Dr. Lorimer, famous Baptist preacher, resigned pastorate of Tremont Temple, Boston, but the congregation declined to accept it. Daniel and William Greenhill of Desota, Mo., accused of murdering their sister and her suitor. Eight men arrested at Canton during the McKinley funeral broke out of prison and escaped. Susie Heines, aged 10, swallowed part of toy balloon at Chicago. Her life saved by prompt tracheotomy operation. Dr. William C. Gray, editor of the Interior, died Sunday at his residence In Oak Park, 111. For thirty years editor of the Interior, through the columns of which he became one of the best known of the Presbyterians of the United States, Dr. Gray dated his connection with the newspaper world a score of years prior to his assuming the management of that periodical. Rev. John A. Peters, D. D., president of the Heidelberg university at Tiffin, 0., lies at the point of death at his home in that city. August Dekarske of Sheboygan, Wie., who stole $52 from a bride while a guest at her wedding, was sent to the state prison for two years. Enoch Edwards, a prominent farmer residing near Valparaiso, Ind., was kicked to death by a horse. He was 24 years of age and leaves a wife and three children. The Minnesota conference of the Methodist Episcopal church voted 90 to IJL_|n favor of the new constitution allowing women representation in the conference. Homer Fite, living near the old Grant tannery at Georgetown, 0., beat and shot his wife. She will die. Afterward he committed suicide. The tragedy was the result of a domestic quarrel. William J. Yoder, the engineer in charge of the Baltimore & Ohio reconstruction between Garrett, Ind., and Chicago, 0., died at Tiffin of apoplexy. His body was found lying near the ■track west of town. Through Wabash train for St. Louis to Omaha wrecked near Council Bluffs. Nineteen passengers badly injured, (three of whom will probably die. ■ John Cabilla, editor of an anarchist paper at Spring Valley, 111., arrested charged with violating the postal laws. Managers of Pontiac, 111., Reformatory enjoined from removing physician of the institution. Miss Fraftcls West selected by Governor of lowa to christen the cruiser Des Moines. Governor Dole of Hawaii reported to have sent his resignation to the (President. Vice Admiral Murray, retired, of the British navy, killed by his horse falling on him. ' Four Mexican brigands killed in a Ifight at a hacienda in Pueblo, Mexico. I Despite the protest of his only living -Child, the casket of Abraham Lincoln Is opened by a small assemblege, head•led by Illinois state officers in their capacity as trustees, and then deposited In what is intended to be its final testing place in a bed of iron and masonry below the shaft of the national monument at Springfield. William B. Ridgely arrives in Washington to assume the office of comptroller of the currency next Tuesday. John George Nicolay, private secretary to President Lincoln, died in {Washington, aged 70. Pope Leo has slight Intestinal trouble which alarms his physician because <£>f the.pontiff’s advanced age. j Thirteen prospectors drowned in Presidio county, Texas, by a sudden flood in a ravine in which they were encamped. Formal opening of the school year at Yale and Wisconsin universities was marked by an increased attendance in all classes. Benny Yanger of Chicago defeats - George Qixon in a flfteen-round battle •t St Louis. Dixon Saved from knockDriver repulsed two highwaymen Jo° T up B etage near