Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1902 — MINOR EVENTS BE TELEGRAPH [ARTICLE]

MINOR EVENTS BE TELEGRAPH

Domestic and Foreign Items of General Interest Told in Paragraphs, COMPLETE NEWS SUMMARY. Record of Ilapp/nlngs of Much or Little Importance from AU Farts of the Civilised World—lncidents, Enterprises, Accidents, Verdicts, Crimes and Wars. Count Leo Tolstoi is very ill. He is being attended by a specialist from St. Petersburg. Francis H. Whitney of Milwaukee has been sworn in as private secretary to Postmaster General Payne. A sermon preached by the Rev. Frank Crane of Chicago caused a woman who had determined to kill herself to change her mind. Dr. Theodore G. Soares of Galesburg has accepted call to, the First Baptist Church of Oak Park. James B. Agnew arrested at Chicago charged with swindlipg physicians in several states. Search for a trunkful of medals, lost a year or more ago by Rodney J. McDowell, is still continued by an aunt in Chicago. The receipts of Kubelik’s four Chicago concerts foot up $22,000. Mrs. Bertha Dalzell was burned to death in a fire at her home near Hamilton, O. At Elkhart, Ind., Ora Strine was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of his wife Dec. last. Judge A. R. Dewey at Oskaloosa, lowa, pronounced sentence of death upon Richard Williams, colored, convicted of the murder of William Sharper. Execution was set for March 13. Mrs. Charles Bliss, wife of a musician, died at Portage, Wis., from the effects of burns received when her husband struck her in the face with a lighted lamp. The husband was intoxicated.

Lewis E. Wood died at Quincy, 111., from pistol wounds made by himself. He was a student in a business college and love is supposed to have been the cause, although there was no obstacle to his marriage. Two street cars on the Reeds Lake line collided head-on just beyond the limits of Grand Rapids, Mich., and Motorman M. L. uriggs was perhhps fatally injured. Motorman A. P. Fransler and several trackmen were also hurt. Acting independently of the combines, the D. O. Cunningham Glass Company at Pittsburg, which is the largest manufacturer of window glass outside of the American Window Glass Company, has voluntarily advanced the wages of all unskilled labor 10 uer cent. The seals which are alleged to have belonged to the dowager Empress of China and to have been looted at Peking, to which attention was called in the house of commons in an effort to prevent their sale, were sold at auction in London and brought $1,500. Nearly 3,000,000 kroner was sent by postal orders from persons in the United States to friends in Norway during 1901. Andrew Carnegie has been elected a member of the Reform Club at London. A patriotic public demonstration will be given on the evening of Feb. 10 at Chicago under the direction of the Cook county cabinet of the National Union. General Fitzhugh Lee and Senator N. J. Jeffris will speak. Fire destroyed the large stock barn of Allie Powell at Wabash. Ind., cremating six head of horses. A matched team of Dr. Kern’s, worth S4OO, and a pacing mare of Powell’s, valued at $5,000 were among them. Nine persons were hurt at a tire in East Superior street. Chicago. The property loss was SBO,OOO. Two royal brothers of Montenegro. Princes Danilo and Mirko, fibught a duel, the latter being wounded. A bill- to direct the coinage of 2%cent pieces was introduced in the House by Representative Cummings of New York, who says that the prices of department stores and other business reasons make it necessary to provide such fractional coins. Department Commander Norton of the Kansas G. A. R., has tendered his resignation to National Commander Eli Torrance. Vice Commander J. B Remington of Paoli will succeed to the office. The charges recently preferred against Commander Norton will probably .be dropped and his resignationJfccepted. TXie czar has authorized the City of Petersburg to raise 30,000,000 rou- ' oles on a loan at 4% per cent for municipal improvements, including the extension of the telephone system, the building of a dam near the Troizki bridge and two new bridges over the Neva. New York’s first bond sale under Mayor Low’s administration will be on Feb. 18. snd $3,000,000 will be disposed of. Charles Shyrock dropped dead at a dance at Cuba, 111. Heart disease was the cause.

Sam Perkins Bishop, the oldest banker in the country, died at bls homo at Walnut Hills, Cincinnati, aged 95. Coasting on Massachusetts avenue hill is the latest diversion of younger Washington society. Ambassador White called upon Prince Henry at Berlin and assured him of a cordial welcome to the United States. Lost sermons, for which a preacher of Portsmouth, Va., was paid $1.23 each, were found in a negro’s house. Two Italians who killed man at Shawmut, Pa., on Jan. 28 were captured by a posse near Crenshaw, Pa. Atlantic coast cities were swept by a storm and a big English freighter went ashore near Atlantic City, N. J. Prince Henry has returned to Kiel and resumed command of the fleet. He expressed regret to Ambassador White that he cannot accept all of the invitations he has received to visit American cities. The city of Chicago has ordered 46,500,000 brick to be used in* the construction of sewers. A syndicate of society leaders has bought an extensive strip of property In Westchester county, bordering Long Island Sound, which they will convert into another Tuxedo Park. The Halliwell-Phillips Shakespearean collection of Birmingham, England, has been bought by M. J. Perry of Providence, R. I. Drunken guests at a Yonkers wedding who started a riot were arrested after a battle with the police. Two prominent members expelled from the New Orleans Cotton Exchange for defrauding a customer out of $30,000.

King Edward and Queen Alexandra attended a concert at the Queen’s hall, when the program was the same as selected by the late Queen Victoria when the Queen's Hall orchestra played before her at Windsor. The Italian ship Nicolo Accame, which sailed from London Jan. 27, bound to Pensacola, Fla., has been lost near Port Blanc. The crew was saved. At Ponce, Porto Rico, the death is announced of Frank Howe, a native of Oshkosh, Wis. He was a lawyer and a resident of Ponce since 1898. He leaves a widow and children in New York. The carnival season of a fortnight was enthusiastically opened at San Juan, and promises to excel the celebration of 1901. The Barry line having withdrawn Its steamboat service between Chicago and Waukegan, it is said that the Graham & Morton line may take it up. Kismet and Archibald Roosevelt had a battle with sword and ouckler, while little Ethel applauded the combatants. Officers of the battleship Wisconsin were entertained at a banquet at Valparaiso, Chili. Charles M. Schwab says he did not gamble at Monte Carlo; just “put down a few louis, like everybody else.’’ Eight boy bandits were sentenced in the Cook county juvenile court, six being sent to the John Worthy school. Judge Tuley has appointed Elmer Washburn receiver for the Zion lace industries in the case of Samuel Stevenson against Alexander Dowie. Miss Anna Scribner, a prominent young woman of Northwestern University, has decided to desert her text books for the stage. Constable Louis Greenberg was indicted by the grand jury at Chicago on charges of beating and robbing Mrs. Jacob Monasewitz. Other charges of woman beating and malfeasance in office are pending against the constable. Queen Wilhemina and her prince consort have quarreled again. He has left Holand for his home in Germany and a speedy divorce is expected. T. P. Phillips will be president of the Federal Trust and Savings bank, to be organized in Chicago with a capital of $1,000,000 and $250,000 surplus. Two women nurses at Staten Island saved the life of a smallpox patient at the risk of their own. A choir singer of New Rochelle, Ind., killed herself because of her husband’s arrest. Judge Jas. A. Wickersham has been re-appolnted by President Roosevelt to the third judicial district of Alaska, succeeding Noyes. Field Marshal General Count Waldersee and wife will start from Berlin for New York in the second week of April. Fire in the village of Norwalk, twenty miles south of Des Moines, la., consumed the largest pajt of the business section. The loss is $20,000. The international sugar conference has adjourned until February 11. '1 he United Mine Workers adopted popular plan for electing national officers.

The grand jury at Davenport, lowa, has returned five indictments against Jackson B. Thomas of Philadelphia, an alleged forger, whose operations are said to have covered several western states. The pan-American conference has finally adjourned. Dittle has been accomplished. Paderewski arrived on the Oceanic to make his American tour and supervise rehearsals for his new opera. He had a narrow escape from injury on ship board during a storm. A Jersey Central ferry boat with 500 passengers aboard was run into by a tug during a heavy snow storm, causing a panic among the passengers. The Mexican minister made the principal speech at the banquet of the Baltimore Merchant’s association. A controlling interest in the First National bank of Council Bluffs, la., passed into the hands of Ernest E. Hart, who is said to represent an eastern syndicate. Mis. John Leritz hanged herself from a transom bar in a doorway at her home in Carlinville, 111.