Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 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 Muoh or Little Importance from All rarU of the Civilized World —Incident*. Enterprise*. Accidents. Verdicts. Crimes and Wars Lord Pauncefote caTTedTon the sec retary of state and gave him assurance there is nothing in the way of an agreement upon a canal treaty which will satisfy the senate. Delegation from Porto Rican cham ber of commerce called on President Roosevelt to urge protection for coffee industry of the island. Horse show opened at the Coliseum, Chicago, with a big attendance, day evening. Society people turned out in force. Notable animals shown at night In the various classes. Another case discovered at Boston of a patient who died under Miss Toppan’s care. Boat on Lake Michigamme capsized during a stomr and four men were drowned. General Punston soon to return to the United States on leave of absence. Engineer on an Erie train stricken •with paralysis near Corning, N. Y., >and the train ran for miles while he lay unconscious. Miss Harriet Smith, a Brooklyn society girl, made perilous trip at night across the river on the narrow swaying footway of the new East River bridge. Mysterious prince of India who stirred curiosity of London reaches Montreal on his way to New York with 1 retinue of twenty-eight servants and •dancing girl. American Can and Union Traction stocks break still lower in the Chicago security market. Financiers are said to have reached agreement on Northern Pacific affairs. Settlement believed to provide for general holding company, retirement of 'Northern Pacific preferred and division of territory. New York stock market Monday was idull and irregular, temporary rally led by St. Paul and Union Pacific being the ionly noteworthy feature. Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, in a speech at Bristol, England, declares that cost of war is enormous, and intimates Ithat taxes will be increased. Aero Club awards M. Santos-Dumont the 100,000 francs offered by M. Deutsch for dirigible balloon. Unknown man attempts to assassinate St. Petersburg prefect of police. Crew of Colombian gunboat Darien mutinies and vessel is now in insurgent hands. j French minister of foreign affaiis instructed the lawyer of the French embassy at Constantinople to ascertain jhow Turkey proposes to pay the Lojrando claim. French fleet arrives in jTurkish waters. ; President of the United States of Cojlombia kidnaped by the orders of the apolitical leaders of the country and •carried into the mountains. Wife of Prince Albert of Belgium {gave birth to a son, the heir presumptive to the throne. Tampa cigar manufacturers seeking .expert cirgarmakers in Cuba to replace strikers. British government to send 5,000 •more cavalrymen to South Africa. California orange planter followed eloping daughter to St. Joseph, Mich., to prevent her marriage, but found no trace of her there. Drunken comrades of Kentucky laT>orer charged with tying him to a railway track so a train cut oft Mb feet. Thomas W. Prior of Chicago invented cotton gin claimed to be an improvement over Whitney machine. Mississippi man confessed murdering his father after his mother committed perjury to save him. Wu Ting Fang declared the stories Of his recall are so persistent he would not be surprised if they were true. He has had no official notice yet from his Roland A. Swan, former assistant to the town treasurer, has pleaded guilty to 280 counts charging embezzlement from Arlington, Mass. Albert J. Learning, a farmer, tried to Arlve across the St. Paul tracks ahead of a traip at Dawson, lowa, and was kiUed - .......