Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1902 — MINOR EVENTS BY TELEGRAPH [ARTICLE]

MINOR EVENTS BY TELEGRAPH

Domestic and Foreign Items of General Interest Told in Paragraphs. COMPLETE NEWS SUMMARY. I Record of Happenla?* of Much or llttlt Importance from All Part* of the CirItlEed World —Incident*. Enterprises, Accident*, Verdicts. Crime* and Ware . 1 General Kitchener reports to the war office at London that Colonel Wing surprised a laager at Boschman’s Kraal, twenty miles from Ermelo, at 'dawn Saturday and captured forty-two Boers, including Major Wolmarons and two officers of the Staats Artillery. Richard Croker announced at the Democratic club in New York that his retirement from the Tammany leadership was not a bluff. He wants to see a younger man in control. Miss Alice Morton, daughter of Levi P. Morton, engaged to Winthrop Rutherford of New York.

Preparations being made in New York to celebrate the silver jubilee of the Pope will begin on Feb. 27. Italian who won SI,OOO in a .lottery fatally hurt in a fight while celebrating at New York. General A. B. Leeper of Owaneco, 111., proposes to begin the publication of “The Lunatic Herald,” a magazine devoted to the interests of the insane. General Leeper has spent five terms in the asylum at Jacksonville, 111. Marconi, in New York on his way to •England, gives interesting details not hitherto made public concerning hib : recent success in wireless telegraphy. Croker as the head of Tammany, in purging that organization, will have •to make war on a majority of the membership.

Mme. Nordica is painfully but not seriously injured in a collision of trains near Rome, Georgia. M. Waldeck-Rousseau, premier of France, opening the ministerial campaign at St. Etienne, said the elements of disorder that have long ruled his country were being scattered and the government was establishing stability and working out many -vital reforms. Warm welcome awaits Prince Henry of Prussia on his arrival in America. Military authorities in the Philippines say homesickness is responsible for the breaking down of American soldiers, and suggest a news service from the United States to cheer up the men. Chicago bowlers perfect plans for participating in national championship tournament in Buffalo next week. Euclid Trust and Savings Company of Cleveland, with deposits of nearly II ,500,000, assigns. Officers assert creditors will be paid in full. “Long” Jones, maker of two United States senators and successful as Republican leader in Illinois and Wisconsin, retires from politics.

Secretary Gage will retain treasury portfolio till Feb. 1 at request of Governor Shaw, who desires time to arrange personal affairs. Tri-state grain and cattle growers’ convention at Fargo adopts resolution indorsing James J. Hill’s railroad merger plan and then reconsiders vote, leaving question of indorsement somewhat in doubt Irish parliamentary party unanimously re-elects John E. Redmond chairman. Run on a bank at Reynoldsville, Pa., caused by the president, as police justice, sending three girls to Jail. 1 General Funston arrived at San Francisco on the transport Warren on a two months’ leave of absence. Edmond Palmer, the Desplaines banker, lawyer, and liquid air enthusiast, arrested at Pittsburg. Trade boom exists in Italy, William E. Curtis writes, the conditions being in striking contrast with those existing in the rest of Europe. Official telegram received in London forecasts the early liberation of Miss Stone.

Income tax returns show Herr Krupp to be the richest man in Germany. Dr. Lapponl says the Pope is in excellent health and may live to become a centenarian. The Missouri Pacific has withdrawn from the transmississippl and Colorado agreement, and a rate disturbance is accordingly expected to follow. Ten out” of fifteen plants in central Ohio were purchased Friday by the Capital City Brick Company, a West Virginia corporation, with a capitalisation of $150,000. Options on four more plants are to be taken up Mon--day. Dr. Poole, who was attached to the American legation in Pekin as surgeon. died Thursday of typhoid fever In the Chinese capital. Member of the reichstag usee bitter inventive against Chamberlain and is sharply rebuked by Chancellor von Buelow. ■’ v.-fe Bhnpn Von Leon will be sent by the *s«M*t*d k fi*nmirsi| to the Unlted States rah-branches. He wil | start for New Torfc before spring and he has orders to report in full about his observa-

Great Western Glass company, with a capital of $1,000,000, Incorporated at Springfield, 111. Headquarters to be In Chicago and the company will fight the glass trust. J. T. Brush issued statement to tel! how he and Robison prevented formation of Spalding’s baseball 'trust. Charles Collins won first prize in the tournament of the Chicago Skat league. Rear end collision on Pennsylvania in Chicago SiyuLay results in injury of two men, one of whom may die. Representatives of machinists and Allis-Chalmers Company hold secret conference at Chicago In an endeavor to end strike. Boer sympathizers at mass meeting in Chicago secure signatures to petition in which they ask President Roosevelt to prevent shipment of horses and mules to South Africa. Chicago women make sport of Dr. Nichols’ new social list, which credits only 145 persons to the real “smart set” of the United States. President-elect Palma of Cuba In outlining the needs of the island declared it must have the help of the LTnited States. Reciprocity and education of the masses a necessity. United States collier sails from Norfolk to day with a marine guard destined for the Danish West Indies as soon as the purchase is completed. PARAGRAPHS Colombia seized a steamer to use as a gunboat against rebels. Pan-American congress is a deadlock over the arbitration dispute. Plans blocked by Chile. Presidents of Central American republics to have peace conference tu Corinth. British sloop of war Condon believed to have been lost on way to Honolulu English correspondents in Berlin think that Chancellor von Buelow may be retired by the emperor for not preventing the Anglophobe outbreaks in the Reichstag. British nation stands by Chamberlain in his refusal to apologize to Germany for his speech which caused offense there. Declared he would resign first. Filipino disturbers in the Province of Cagayan suppressed by Luzon constabulary and plan to restore the province to army control abandoned. Monday morning fire at Fifty-second 1 street and the Pan-Handle tracks. Chicago, caused destruction of big elevator and contents. Ix>ss, $250,000. Archbishop Keane in sermon at Dubuque intimated the priests of the city would begin fight on saloons. Man who committed suicide at Seat tie confessed a murder for which another is serving sentence. Ferd Krouskoupf was killed and Rob ert Maxwell fatally injured in Maynard’s mine, near Cannellsville, 0., by falling slate. Otto Wright called on his farm tenant, Eli Pabsllnger, near Terre Haute, Sunday and demanded a washing machine. A quarrel followed and Wright shot his tenant twice, both wounds be ing serious. Wright’s mother was with him.

Nyx repeats at New Orleans, winning with ease at the odds of 20 to 1. Frank De Haas Robison says Spalding started the downfall of National League by beginning the “selling'’ of players. Golf laws will be changed at next annual meeting. A decrease in the revenue returns of France is again shown by the figures or the last three months, which are 8,271,844 francs ($1,654,369) below the estimate and 20,105,000 francs below the returns for the same period of 1900. The total deficit for 1901, compared with the estimates, is 110,000,000 francs ($22,000,000). Smallpox discovered In the New Jersey state prison, where 1,200 convicts are confined.

Sidney Lascelles, otherwise known as “Lord Beresford,’’ a noted swindler, arrested in Boston for fraud. Von Buelow’s speech criticising Joseph Chamberlain fiercely resented by English papers. German Chancellor charged with deliberately adopting an offensive tone towards England. Chancellor Von Buelow’s criticism of Joseph Chamberlain approved by several speakers during debate in the German Reichstag. German taunts anger England. London Times warned Kaiser that British patience will be overstepped if Chancellor von Buelow continues to use the King's uniform to wipe his feet upon. Dr. Ernest Lieber, the centrist leader in the German reichstag, is fatally ill. Chinese emperor issued edict ordering members of the Han-Lin Academy to study modern political science. London alarmed by 878 cases of smallpox. Thirty-four fresh cases discovered Friday. The Penn Art club of Philadelphia wants to arrange a six-round no decision meeting between Eddie Santry and Tim Callahan. Dowie and two of his elders sued at Chicago for $50,000 damages for alienating the affections of B. F. Williams’ wife. Sugar cane growers of Louisiana held a meeting at New Orleans to protest against tariff concessions in favor of Cuba. Grant club of Des Moines gave a reception and banquet for Leslie M. Shaw. In a speech he outlined the numerous duties and great responsibilities of bis office. Edward Corrigan refused a license to train on Newmarket Heath' Former Governor James B. McCreary nominated for senator by the Democratic caucus of the Kentucky Legislature. Student at Princeton University afflicted with smallpox and eleven under quarantine. All students to be vaccinated.