Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 December 1901 — MINOR EVENTS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

MINOR EVENTS OF THE WEEK

Items of General Interest Told in Paragraphs. if t COMPLETE NEWS SUMMARY. *M»td of Happening* of Haoh or Little Importance from All Parts of the Clrlllzcd World—lncidents. Enterprises. Accidents, Verdicts. Crimes and Wars Slossou is badly defeated by Sutton in the international billiard tournament at New York. Western Jockey club takes St. Louis fair grounds and lielmar turf promoters into membership, and becomes the ruling turf body. Resignation of Appraiser of the Port iWakeman before Jan. 1 said to have been requested by secretary of the treasury. He will refuse to comply and will put up a fight. In an attempt to capture Be Wet Cblonel Wilson, with a force of English troops, came into contact with a superior force of Boers near Heilbrou and was nearly surrounded. Fifty thousand dollar prize ottered by Alfred Nobel, the Swedish inventor, awarded 'to M. Armand Sully-Prud-homme of Paris. Reichstag to question the government regarding Chamberlain’s alleged insult to German soldiers in his speech at Edinburg. Plan of Charles T. Yerkes for electrification of ‘London transportation lines reported to have been adopted. Clerk who robbed Liverpool bank of nearly $1,000,000 lost it in racetrack gambling. Miss Stone now said to be concealed in the vicinity of Rilo in Bulgaria. Severe snowstorms have swept over Scotland and many parts of England. Railroad traffic in the highlands is much interfered with by the storm. King Edward left Sandringham for London in the midst of a blinding snowfall. American capitalists are examining the pyritiferbus lands in Iceland with the View of purchasing or leasing them from the government. These properties were formerly leased by an English syndicate, whose concession was revoked because the rent was not paid. Deadwood sheriff and his deputy killed a store robber, wounded another, and captured a third. Run on the City Savings Bank of Omaha checked by sight of piles of gold on the counters. Amalgamated Copper went up five points. Lawson predicts squeeze for the shorts. Albert T. Patrick, accused of the Rice murder, seeking to be released at New lork by habeas corpus proceedings. Frank A. Munsey of New York planning to establish a large number of grocery stores in New England. Friends of Barry Howard, leader of a Kentucky mountain feud, attempted to rescue him while on his way to prison to Frankfort to be tried for complicity in the Goebel murder. Aged and sick at the burning of a Milwaukee sanitarium saved from injury by Mrs. Ellyn Myers, the assistant matron.

Thomas W. Lawson defiant in the copper war. Will neither ask nor give quarter. Daly estate caused slump. Convention to be held at Cincinnati this week to organize national association of Catholic societies. Serious defects discovered in the machinery of the battleship Illinois and a board of naval engineers may investigate. Court at Wabash, Ind., compelled man to pay reward offered for saving his wife from drowning. The Rev. J. W. Bradford of Brookside, Ala., killed by former member of "»*li to- congregation. Thirty-nine prisoners in jail at Birmingham, Ala., escaped by digging through wall. Business section of Hoopestown, 111., destroyed by fire. Loss nearly 1100 - 000. Loss of the Omaha Loan and Trust company may run up into the millions. Platinum and copper in paying quantities found near Encampment, Wyo. New pneumatic dynamite gun successfully tested at Hilton Head, S. C. Manila merchants refuse to accept Mexican money in payment for goods. Philippine commission authorized insular purchasing agent to use gold in purchase of supplies. Reported death of Lieutenant Van Tets declared to be false. He has appendicitis. British coal exports declined 158,000 tons in the first ten months of 1901. John Braden, whose father left him 1500,000, died in lodging house at New .York. Town Marshal J. B. Smith of Chelsea, la., killed in a fight with three men caught in the act of robbing a bank. Posse pursuing the slayers. Botha, Steyn, De Wet and other Boer leaders held a conference twelve miles from Heilbron. Burghers want to know when intervention is to come. Fifteen hundred discharged soldiers returning from Manila riot on transport Sheridan, defy former officers, and for a time hold possession of the Locomotive and three freight cars on the Canadian Pacific fell into a gorge 300 feet deep. Two trainmen killed.