Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1901 — MINOR EVENTS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

MINOR EVENTS OF THE WEEK

Items of General Interest Told in Paragraph! COMPLETE NEWS SUMMARY. Record of Happenings of Mnoh or Little Importance from All Part* of the Civilized World —Incident*. Enterprises, Accidents. Verdict*. Crime* and Wars President Roosevelt told a delegation of South Carolina republicans that he would like to succeed himself as president, but did not care for the nomination if he had to cater to any political clique, combination or movement. He w.ll make no light for the nomination. General Botha and his Boer army reported surrounded by British troops and natives near Piet Ratief. Officer amsted in Algiers who was sent by the sultan to incite an Arab revolt against the French. Duke and Duchess of Yoik and several members of their pa;ty visited Niagara Falls. Zinc trust to build a manufacturing town near Bethlehem, Pa. Disclosure that he was once a convict by R. M. Wolfe of Columbus, Ohio, startled his friends and acquaintances. His action commended. Fight over a rich ore claim In section 30 of the Vermilion range, near Ely, Minn., is now in Supreme court. Decision expected soon. Bishop Willis of Honolulu announced his intention of resigning charge of Hawaiian diocese of the Episcopal church. Water reservoir at East Liverpool. Ohio, broke under the pressure of 10,000.000 gallons of water. Loss, $l5O - 000. Schooner Mont Blac foundered during the storm on Lake Erie. Crew rescued after clinging to rigging all night Citizens of Aurora, 111., cannot agree upon site for library building given the city by Andrew Carnegie. Pat Crowe sent another letter to Omaha chief of police concerning his offer to surrender. Ex-Governor Stone, Champ Clark and two others will contest Missouri senatorship with Vest Senator Lodge had long conference with president at White House. Mrs. E. D. Gillespie, aged 80, daughter of William J. Duane, secretary of the treasury under President Jackson, and great-grandmcther of Benjamin Franklin, is dying at Philadelphia. Mrs. E. Vallie has been arrested at Denver in connection with the death of her husband, Upiide Vallie, who was found with his head beaten to a pulp at Jefferson, Colo. Charles Baker, employed on Vallie's ranch, is charged with committing the murder for love of Mrs. Vallie.

The National Association of Retail Druggists, in session at Buffalo, has Voted to adopt a portion of the Worcester plan, under which manufacturers and jobbers of medicine will place on invoices and packages printed conditions of sale and price, and the retail dealers are expected to conform with the conditions. Total registration at Yale is 2,750. Woman lion tamer at the Buffalo exposition attacked by a lion and badly lacerated. Another expedition being organized at Victoria, B. C., to hunt for buried treasure on Cocos Island. Four killed and seven injured in a wreck on the Santa Monica electric railway near Sherman, Cal. Death of Louisville physician and his pets occurs as predicted by mysterious woman. Confession of General Buller that he advised the surrender of Ladysmith astounds Britons and conservative supporters of the government call upon him to resign. George Dolinski hanged at Chicago for the murder of his brother-in-law, Anton Lizl. Dent Yates, a business man of Kansas City, Mo., died from an operation of appendicitis. Mr. Yates was a member of the company that presented the opera “Pinafore" in America for the first time. Harper’s nitroglycerin factory at Ridge farm, four miles from Oil City, Pa., was blown up yesterday. The cause of the explosion will never be known, as the only persons about the place at ine time were instantly killed. They were Clarence Ward, aged 33, the manufacturer, and his assistant, Frank Gross, aged 25. Ward’s body was blown to atoms and Gross was decapitated. Windows were shattered for a radius of two or three miles. Police and mob of Porto Cabello, Venezuela, attacked party of sailors from the German cruiser Vineta and wounded several. New Ameer of Afghanistan notifies Viceroy Curzon he will follow in his father’s tootsteps and expresses hope of growing friendship with Great Britain. Chicago bankers are not agreed upon Secretary Gage’s assertion that there Is a dearth in good bank clerks. Baak of Narka, Kas., robbed of $15,000 by safe blowers. Detachment of Twenty-first infantry and company of Macabebes routed big tores of Filipino rebels at Batansas. Boer war critics provoked a denial from the British ministry that Kitchener is not receiving full support