Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1901 — CONDENSED TELEGRAPHIC NEWS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CONDENSED TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

Joseph Flory kills his wife and himself at St. Louis, making orphans of three small children. ThomsLs W. Lawson lost $12,000,000 by the drop in copper. He will hold to his stock, however, at all costs. Religious services held Sunday at tha Charleston exposition preliminary to the formal opening Monday afternoon. Syndicate of Chicago men bought six gold mines at Idaho Springs, Colo., for $208,000. Company Incorporated at Baltimore to make whisky out of watermelons. The whisky will be made from the ripe fruit in the summer and in the winter from the seeds. The water used will he furnished from the fruit itself. Fifty-seventh congress convened at noon Monday. Fleet of twenty-seven steamships owned by Samuel & Co 1 , of England reported sold to American interests for $40,000,000. Eastern oil properties included in the deal. Fall in price of silver sent gold to a premium at Manila. Speculators importing Mexican silver from Hongkong to take advantage of the situation. Buller demonstration given at Hyde Park, London, but most of the 100,000 persons present were attracted by curiosity rather than sympathy. Constantinople correspondent of a Vienna paper declared the dead bodies of Miss Stone and Mme. Tsilka had been found near Dubritza. Chile and Argentine republic buying arms and munitions of war in Germany. Conflict between the two countries believed to be imminent. Russian steel and iron trust may be formed as a result of the metallurgical congress at Kbarkoff. King Edward and the queen to visit Cannes this winter. Miss Vivian Sartoris, granddaughter of U. S. Grant, reported engaged to Morton Nichols. Botfly threatens to exterminate rabbits on Long Island. E. H. Harriman indicted in Orange county, N. J., for violation of the eighthour law by company of which he is president. Henry H. Terwilliger, a private banker of Montague, Mich., mysteriously disappeared, notifying his family they might never see him again. His financial affairs apparently in good condition. Deputy collector of customs of Detroit who examined baggage of emigrants who were In the Wabash wreck declared there were at least seventyfive killed at Seneca. Farmers of Solomon county, Kan., made arrangements to ship their surplus wheat direct to German consumers. Theodore Huddleston, confidential clerk of National Stock Yards bank of East St. Louis, embezzled $12,000. Automatic telephone exchange invented and successfully operated by a Baltimore inventor. Fifteen foremen of the Carnegie works at Pittsburg given $150,000 worth of company bonds. Connecticut Law and Order league began movement to stop prizefighting in that state. Calve found a child in Los Angeles with a remarkably fine voice. Col. John N. Partridge, superintendent of public works for the state of New York, appointed police commissioner by Mayor-Elect Low 7 . American Baseball association completed its organization, with clubs at Indianapolis, Milwaukee, St. Paul, Columbus, Toledo, Minneapolis, Omaha, and Kansas City. Herr W6lf, leader of the Pan-Ger-man party.in the Austrian rcichsrath, forced out Of public life by a scandal. Crisis approaching in Venezuela because of government’s disregard for rights of Americans and Germans. Mrs. Bonine’s confession telling of the shooting of Ayres read to the jury. She may testify in her own behalf. Army officers incensed at barbaric methods of warfare adopted by Filipino insurgents. Fifteen persons drowned by the capsizing of a launch in New Calsdonia. Transport Wright, formerly a hospital boat, struck a reef Lamon bay. Island of Samar, and sank in shallow water. Minister and Mre. McCormick observed Thanksgiving day in Vienna by holding a reception. Young Corbett knocked out Terry McGovern in the second round of their fight at Hartford, Conn., by a cleancut blow on the point of the chin. Fighting fierce in both rounds. Mrs. Fred Gebhard, who recently secured a divorce from her husband in South Dakota, married Henry 'Clews, Jr., son of the New York financier. John Kraus, a tobacconist of Trenton. N. J., killed by an employe, whose wife revealed the crime. Caused by quarrel over wages. Victims of the Wabash wreck at Seneca, Mich., now believed to number eighty, although the officials of the Toad declare not more than twenty •were killed. Coroner's jury impaneled At Adrian to investigate the disaster