Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1901 — MINOR EVENTS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

MINOR EVENTS OF THE WEEK

Items of General Interest Told in Paragraphs. COMPLETE NEWS SUMMARY. Kcoord of Happenings of Hath or Little Importance from All Parts of the Clrlllzed World —Incidents. Enterprises, Accident* Verdicts. Crimea and Wars Jennie Piercberg, aged sixteen, shot and fatally wounded an unknown man who was caught stealing her mother’s chickens at Bayneville, near Wichita, Kan. Girl at Atlantic City, N. J., died of lockjaw, caused by vaccination. Mob at Rochester, N. Y., captured a man who tried to rob a woman in a bank. Newell C. Rathbun, who was supposed to have died in a hotel at Jeffersonville, Ind., has been arrested in Louisville, Ky., for complicity in a scheme to defraud insurance company. Negotiations for the sale of the Danish West Indian Islands to the United States nearly completed. Miss Stone, in a letter to a friend at Sofia, declares herself hopeful of release. General Uribe-Urlbe declared the Colombian revolutionists were fighting to insure United States control of the Panama canal. Extension of French concessions denounced. Radical readjustment of traffic affairs to follow the settlement of the Northern Pacific complications. All Harriman and Hill lines to be put under one management. Corn yield the last season, according to government crop report, was 16.4 bushels per acre, the smallest average on record. 'Dennis Mulvihill, a coal heaver, inaugurated as Mayor of Bridgeport, Conn. Elected for his honesty. Commanding officers of the Chicago police department warned their subordinates crime must be stopped. Richard Mayo-Smith, a professor at Columbia university and a well known writer on political economy, is killed by fall from upper window of his New York house. Schooner Sweetheart, with eight men on board, is drifting helplessly on Lake,Huron with a big boulder imbeded in her bottom planking. If foe stone drops out she will sink. Frank Thompson, negro leader of the mutiny at Fort Leavenworth penitentiary, has been wounded and captured. Lawrence Lewis, another fugitive, was fatally shot while trying to escape from a posse. Paul Revere, great-grandson of Colonel Paul Revere of revolutionary fame, is dead at Morristown, N. J. Otto M. Ekberg, a non-union teamster, was murdered in San Francisco by an unknown man. During the recent strike Ekberg and another nonunion teamster got into a fight with union men. It is thought this occurrence supplied the motive for the murder.

French fleet ordered to leave Mltylene and proceed to island of Syra. Diplomatic relations between France and Turkey restored. Schooners Emily Taylor and George Irving wrecked on Lake Michigan and Saginaw Bay, but the crews rescued. Twenty-four students of St. Stanislaus’ college, Bay St Louis, Miss., were expelled for going to a circus. Patients who died while under the charge of Miss Toppan in Massachusetts to be exhumed and examined for traces of poison. Arkansas editor declared governor of B * a te accepted a bribe, and latter may go gunning for him. Horse carried boy rider into burning barn near Rochester, N. Y., and both perished. Army paymaster robbed of $4,800 while on his way to Pensacola, Fla. Convicts who escaped from the Fort Leavenworth (Kan.) penitentiary captured a sheriff and his deputy, who were pursuing them, and used them as a shield to escape from posse. Insurance company charged attempt to swindle it out of $4,000 by pretended death of an insured man at Little Rock, Ark. Mrs. William Textor of Leavenworth,* Kan., committed suicide at her home by setting fire to her clothing, which she first thoroughly saturated with coal oil. Mrs. Textor was injured three weeks ago and her mind is believed to have been deranged. The.fire in the Mikado mine at Bessemer, Mich., was extinguished after a damage of SIO,OOO had resulted. Two hundred men are thrown out of employment The body of Erick Johnson was found clinging to a ladder in the mine 160 feet from the surface. Frank McCoy, an electrician, was electrocuted yesterday at the top of a 150-foot electric tower at Council Bluffs, lowa. Bulgarian government notified it would be held responsible if Miss Stone is killed by bandits, who are said to be treating her with more cruelty. George Fusting, an engineer, was killed and three employes injured by a boiler explosion at the Central/stock yards at Louisville, Ky. # Mrs. Kathleen White r wife of the president of the National Salt Company, killed by a fall in bar bathroom in Greater New York.