Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1902 — MINOR EVENTS BY TELEGRAPH [ARTICLE]

MINOR EVENTS BY TELEGRAPH

Domestic and Foreign Items of General Interest Told in Paragraphs, COMPLETE NEWS SUMMARY. Record of Happening* of Much or Little Importance from Alt Part* of the Clvllized World—lncident*. Enterprise*, Accidents, Verdict*. Crimea and War* Liner St. Paul reaches New York after most tempestuous voyage in her career. Among her passengers is Mme. Lillian Blauvelt, who returns to America for a concert tour. Mrs. Leslie Carter declares belief that she is reincarnation of Mme. Du Barry, noted historical character and heroine of play in which she appears. Insurance companies refuse to accept the theory that John McCarty of Arizona was killed and partially eaten by bears, but hint at a plot to secure 127,000 he was carrying in various companies. Paul G. Thebaud is robbed of jewels ■worth $50,000. Valet disappears and is Suspected of theft. Second desperate plot of Leavenworth convicts to mutiny, kill guards and escape—is thwarted through disclosures made by a trusty. Correspondent at Peking says the Americans there should be strengthened in view of possible trouble when the imperial court returns Jan. 10. Other powers have taken precautions, as the city is rapidly filling with government troops.

Pan-American conference will receive this week report of water transportation committee, recommendations of which are based on suggestions of Volney W. Foster. Action on arbitration expected New Year’s. • General Chaffee denies that there is a clash between the civil and military authorities in the Philippines, all points of friction being speedily removed. Governor Wright testifies in the same strain. Lumber Transit Company is being formed for purpose of controlling lumber carrying trade of the great lakes. From the outset it will comprise from fifty to sixty vessels and will be capitalized for about $2,500,000. Wall street experiences a week of sensational trading in sugar stocks, with wide fluctuations that prove disastrous to bear interests. Eugene Carter, famous billiard player, is dying at his home in Chicago. Jim Jeffries reaches Chicago and Bays he believes Fitzsimmons does not Intend to fight. He believes Sharkey will be his next opponent. Champion is in good condition. Six thousand poor persons of Chicago were fed Sunday at the annual Christmas dinner given by the Volunteers of America in the Seventh Regiment armory at Wabash avenue and Hubbard court. Monday 4,000 baskets of food were distributed among poor families in the tenement districts. The annual sparrow hunt in the village of McComb, Ohio, came to an end Saturday night with a large banquet served by the losing side. There were two sides, twenty-five men each, and in four weeks they had killed 13,000 birds. They measured them by a bushel basket.

G. H. Mull, fireman on the Erie railroad, leaped from the cab of an engine near Lima, 0., and was killed. He thought a train on a siding was about to crash into his engine. His home was in Galion. Dun’s review of trade calls attention to the enormous holiday trade as indicating the general prosperity of the country. Captain Rees permits Bristol to keep second place in steeple chase at New Orleans after latter had run out of the course. Five officials at Chicago made prisoners in tunnel forty feet below the ground for seven hours by accident to elevator in conduit. John Kelly, a workman, slides down a high church roof at Chicago, but catches a cornice with his fingers and hangs in midair until rescued. Andrew Carnegie reported to be planning gift of 11,000,000 to Yale. Senator Clark bought sixty-six paintings in Vienna for $320,000. Three men killed by furnace explosion at Sharpsville, Pa. Brooklyn scientist proved that the famous Tower of Pisa was built to lean and is not the work of accident. Battleship Missouri launched Saturday morning at Newport News, Va. Cabinet members and navy officials witnessed event. Prize of $2,500 offered for a symbol design for the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. Civil ceremony of marriage uniting Senator Depew and Miss May Palmer took place at the United States consulate at Nice. Two religious ceremonies follow. Newfoundland coast swept by gales, which did great damage to shipping. Archbishop ChapeUe, in an Interview at New Orleans, denies statements made in recent letter by William E. Curt|s, and says that church policy in Philippines will be announced soon by

Officials of ths Boston National league team will Join the Spalding combination. Lord Salisbury may be made a duke by King Edward at the coronation ceremonies, after which the Premier is said to be contemplating a return to private life. Rosebery declineu leadership of Liberals. If President Castro does not grant the demands of Germany an ultimatum will be sent to Venezuela, followed by the occupation of two ports of the South American republic. United States and Germany said to be willing to remit part of the Chinese indemnity because the amount granted exceeded their losses in Boxer troubles. Emperor of China nearing Pekin. He will return to the capital through twelve miles of kneeling troops. > Only minor interests in the Danish West Indies opposed to their sale to the' United States. Hitch in the negotiations between Chile and Argentina ascribed to differences at Buenos Ayres. Evanston (Ill.) detective, aided by a dog, finds clothing discarded by Miss Ely and her nephew, Frank Rogers, on the day of their disappearance. They have been missing since midsummer. Lincoln Pence, living near Mason City, lowa, went to remove a dynamite blast from a quarry, when it exploded, blowing out his eyes and mutilating his face terribly. It is not expected that he can live.

William A. Lindeke, formerly a prosperous dry goods merchant, killed himself at St. Paul, Minn., by shooting through the heart. He met with financial reverses and for the last year had been employed as a clerk. Fire which started in Christmas tree destroyed six-story Alexandra apartment building, Chicago, driving many families into street by fire escapes. Rescues of firemen and police were thrilling and picturesque. Governors of five northwestern states met Monday at Helena, Mont., to decide upon plan of action for opposing the big railroad merger. George E. Graham, who stood beside Schley during the Santiago fight, retold.the story of the admiral’s heroism under fire. Robert H. Hatfield, one of the survivors of the famous Kentucky feud, killed in Arizona by a deputy sheriff’ The Re*-, J. a. Heath expelled from Baptist ministry at Kansas City for procuring an illegal divorce. Landslide caused railroad accident near Lynchburg, Va., in which four men were killed. Burglars robbed two elderly spinsters of $6,000 near Washington, D. C. Earthquake shock felt at Denver. John S. Pinover jumped off the Brooklyn bridge Sunday in order to gain notoriety. He apparently suffered no serious injury. D. S. Ambler of Salem, Ohio, has accepted appointment as federal judge in the Philippines.

Isaac Westoberore, a miner at the Newport mine at Ironwood, Mich., committed suicide by jumping down a shaft 1,200 feet deep. Walter and Gerald Doble, aged 13 and 15 years, respectively, fell through an air hole in the ice on Conesus Lake at Livonia, N. Y., and were drowned. The Minnesota supreme court rules that foreign corporations can not enforce contracts in the state unless incorporation papers are filed there. Three children of Jacque Mondry, aged 10, 7 and 3 years, were burned to death in their home at Buffalo. The mother and a 2-days-old baby were rescued. Winfield S. Arter, aged 40, a Pittsburg stock broker, shot and killed himself while despondent on account of being on the wrong side of the copper market. Sir hundred trainmen of the Pittsburg, Bessemer and Lake Erie railroad have been notified of a voluntary increase of 10 per cent in wages, commencing Jan. 1. Roy S. Hedges, son of Colonel Sidney M. Hedges, of Boston, Mass., mysteriously disappeared from his sister s home in Sewickley, Pa., Christmas day, while suffering from a temporary abberation of mind, and suicide is feared. Martin Gleason, aged 50, superintendent of the Wild Horse, Damon and Deadwood mines at Cripple Creek, was found dead at the bottom of the Kalamazoo shaft, 500 feet below the surface. The ground around the mouth of the shaft bore marks of a struggle and it is evident that Gleason was murdered.

Monthly line of steamers between New York and the Philippines to be established. Fleet of steam lighters to be sent to Manila that will revolutionize conditions of commerce in the islands. Real estate trade closed at New York involving several skyscrapers valued at $4,000,000. Italian followed a bond jumper, a fellow countryman. 4,000 miles, finding him in Chicago at last. Police prevented bloody ending of search. Tommy Ryan sued Jeffries for SI,OOO which he declares is due him for training the champion. Down-town district of Chicago filled with reports where open gambling is carried on. Coppers stationed on the street to invite pedestrians to take part in all sorts of games of chance. Numerous Christmas fatalities reported, the most serious of which was a battle between negroes and whites in Alabama, in which two were killed and two wounded. Rebellion in Colombia practically at an end, according to advices received by the Colombian Legation. New chiircn law admitting women as delegates accepted by the Methodist conferences. East was only section opposed to it. Negro employe of St. Louis Health board confesses giving out infected serum that caused thirteen deaths.