Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 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, n( Much or Little I importance from All Part, of ilia Clrlilxed World —Incident,. Knterprleee. Aecldeuta, Verdicts. Crime* ami Ware Steamer Alerta, with 200 passengers, including some discharged American soldiers from Olongapo, is believed to have been lost on its way lrom Subig Bay to Manila. General Wood bought the San Juan battlefield for 515,000, which the United States government will transform into a park. Boers attacked British convoy and nearly captured 100 prisoners. Greek ministry resigned as a result of the recent riots at Atltens. Icing Island and New Jersey shores visited by severe gale which did thousands of dollars damage to docks and shore property. Summer homes on Bong Island badly damaged. Many vessels missing. Four lives lost. Two companies of state troops captured camp of striking miners at Nortonville. Ky., and arrested twentythree men belonging to the Unitf-tfMiner Workers. Tents and camp equipage confiscated. Granddaughter of Horatio Seymour eloped with man 65 years old and onequarter Indian, employed by her parents at Marquette, Mich. Holland submarine boat remained fifteen hoars under water at Greenport., K. Y. Officers and crew suffered no discomfort Expert diver located the wreck of the Pacific mail steamer Rio de Janeiro, which foundered off the California coast. Chicago limited train of the Delaware, I*ackawanna & Western road wrecked at Morris Plains, N. J. Grover Cleveland recovering from his illness. Authorities of Riverside Hospital, New York, sent the wrong body to James Kerr as that of his child who had died there. He finally located his child’s body with the help of District Attorney. Salvatore Armes, 9 years old, arrested for throwing a 3-year-old child into bonfire at New York. Its injuries will probably prove fatal. , Building trades at New York to form central body. Strong attempt will he made at the coming session of Congress to have Oklahoma, with its population of 298,331, admitted as a state. Many Congressman favor it, hut are opposed to admission of Arizona and New Mexico.

Count von Hatzfelut, veteran German diplomat, who recently resigned as ambassador to Great Britain, died in Loudon of congestion of the lungs. St, James Gazette repeats charge that English actors are coarsened in America because of the difference between audiences. In the Bonine trial the defense established the fact that there had been a struggle with Ayres. Government drops a witness who gives testimony favorable to the prisoner. President Castro orders arrest of the Venezuelan minister of war and many of his partisans on the charge of conspiracy. City officials of Pittsburg, Pa., appointed by Recorder A. M. Brown, resigned rather than sene under the new recorder appointed by Governor Stone after the removal of Brown. Quay planning to make J. D. Cameron governor. Howard Egleston, an agent of the Illinois Steel company, arrested in Cuba, charged with embezzling $13,000. Riots continued in Athens, the troops having a busy time suppressing violence. Stores closed by police. Clerk in the employ of the Bank of Liveroool disappeared, taking $830,000 of the bank’s money. Rebels defeated goverrment troops under General Alban in a battle near Panama. News of the capture of the isthmian metropolis expected soon. Reinhart Wisse, who sought to get a kiss with a raffle ticket at an Englewood church bazaar, Chicago, soundly pummeled by a woman. Holdup men in Chicago beat and robbed two young women, shot a man in the leg for. failure to ihrow up his hands promptly, and despoiled a Chinaman in the downtown district of ills earnings. James Henderson, a confidence man et Chicago, whose specialty was lake front explosions, convicted of swindling. Brewery at Austin. Tex., lined $3,500 for violation of anti-trust law'. Transport Thomas bringing body of Major Belknap home. Bonine murder trial began at Washington with a statement by the prosecution outlining its theory of how J. S. Ayres was killed. Senator Allison in outlining the work of the coming congress, declared tariff revision unlikely, believed a department of commerc* and a Nicaraguan canal plan assured. Expects reciprocity with Cuba will be arranged. Repeal of war taxes likely. '.Heavy river and harbor bill certain.