Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1901 — MINOR EVENTS Of IHt WEEK [ARTICLE]

MINOR EVENTS Of IHt WEEK

Items of General Interest Told in Paragraphs. COMPLETE NEWS SUMMARY. Record of Happening* of Mnoh or Little Importance from All Parte of the Clr--1 Ized World —Incident*. Enterprise*. Accidents, Verdicts. Crimes and Wars Mabel F. Mayer, aged 13, was murdered at San Francisco as she slept In her bed at the home of her parents by John Stano aged 22 years, who then blew out his own brains. Stano was infatuated with the girl. The 6-year-old daughter of Joseph Gordy was burned to death in a fire which destroyed the Gordy farmhouse, near Goshen, Ind. A young son escaped after vain efforts to rescue his sister. The fire is thought to have been incendiary. President Roosevelt traveled from Washington to Connecticut under heavy guard, trainmen being armed with revolvers. Two missing employes of a Lowell, Mass., bank return securities worth |BOO,OOO and are said to have been promised immunity from prosecution on charge of embezzling $115,000. Change by Admiral Schley in statement of date on which “Dear Schley” letter from Admiral Sampson was received is a feature of Monday’s proceedings in court of inquiry. President Roosevelt has appointed George W. Koester, a prominent gold Democrat, internal revenue collector for the district of South Carolina. Yale bi-centennial celebration devoted to formal addresses and to triumphal torchlight procession, in which old graduates and young students joined. New York physicians are prepared to make a final test of the theory of Dr. Koch of Berlin regarding the intercommunicability of human and bovine virus. American and European merchants in China fear another outbreak. • Federal troops defeated Colombian rebels near Panama. Son of Prince Tuan soon to be deposed as heir to China’s throne and a boxer leader to succeed him. J. Daniel Reinhard, weighing 493 pounds, dies of heart disease at Bath, Pa. British discovered that the Boers are buying horses in Russia and cannon in France.

Passenger steamer City of Cleveland struck a reck or sunken anchor in the Detroit river and the boat sink in eight feet of water on the Canadian side. Passengers escaped uninjured. Yale bicentennial celebration began with prayer and religious exercises in the college c?.apel and churches of New Haven. City crowded wi.h alumni and Visitors. Farmington, Conn., excited over coming of President Roosevelt. Special 'constables appointed to gua.d him. Racing automobile wrecked near New Rochelle, N, Y., by machine rUti- 1 nlng into a stone wall. , Remains of an unidentified man "found floating in the Ogden slip. May have been murdered. Epidemic of bank robberies in northwestern Ohio believed to be the work of tramps, Son of ex-Governor Packard of loWa seriously poisoned by cigarette smoking. Football player at Champion, Mich., died of Injuries received in a game. Steamer Swallow, laden with lumber, foundered in Lake Erie. Admiral Dewey, as presiding officer of the Schley court of inquiry, has created a favorable impression for his impartiality, justness and promptness. Joe Pravish hurled oft a Northwestern train at Chicago dur ng a fight, fell under the wheels, receiving injuries which necessitated the amputation of a leg.

Two linemen, Timothy Keefe of Lincoln, Neb., and O. Wiltse of Omaha, Neb., died at a hospital in Lincoln, Neb., as a result of injuries received by the falling of a forty-foot pole. Three trainmen were crushed to death in a head-on collision between an east and a west-bound freight train on the Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee railroad at a curve five miles west of Birmingham, Mich. President Roosevelt’s action in entertaining Booker T. Washington at dinner in the White House severely criticised throughout the South by newspapers and prominent southerners. - ’ Twenty-seven men, comprising three parties of government surveyors, arrived at Seattle, after exploration of northern Alaska and the Lower Yukon district. Tammany officials making elaborate plans for the entertainment of King Leopold of Belgium on his visit to New York. Lunatic, who declared his mission was to kill President Roosevelt, arrested at New York after a desperate struggle. Barry line steamer State of Michigan sank at 3 o’clock in the morning near White Lake Harbor. Crew escaped in boats with aid of life-savers. Two employee of the Merchants’ National Bank of Lowell, Mass., disappeared after embezzling amount that may reach >300.000. . "