Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1902 — CONDENSED TELEGRAPHIC NEWS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CONDENSED TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

The death is announced of J. F. Bentley, the architect, at London. The second session of the Porto Rico Legislature has adjourned. Seventy bills were passed and signed during the session. There are persistent rumors of a new Spanish interior loan of 125,000,000 pesetas ($25,000,000) and of financial difficulties, which may cause a cabinet crisis. The Spanish ambassador to the Vatican resigned because of proposals to reform the Concordat by suppressing ten bishoprics, ten seminaries and 100 canonries. William Cilley of Burlington, Va., is practically serving a life sentence in jail for contempt because he refuses to tel! the name of the woman who gave him liquor. Policeman Gilbert Knowles was probably fatally stabbed by Charles Sacco at a riot in Chicago growing out ot a raffle for an Italian harp. A New York traveling man, to demonstrate the safety of the United States mails, pasted the address of liis daughter in Pennsylvania on a silver dollar and the coin was delivered. Abdul Aziz Ben Feysul, with 2,000 followers, has captured the city of E’Riad, central Arabia, and is inaugurating a serious revolt Hugo memorial fetes were concluded at Paris with the turning over to the city of the house once occupied by the author for use as a Hugo museum. Senator Tiliman denied that he warned the President against visiting South Carolina. W. J. Calhoun of Illinois is talked of for a cabinet place. The death of Billy Rice at Hot Springs, Ark., from dropsy marked the exit of the third of the old school of popular minstrels within a month, the others being Billy West and Billy Emerson. A general strike of the linemen in the employ of the New York Telephone Company, and the New York and New Jersey Company, has been ordered. The men demand that their wages be increased from sls to $lB per week, and that a uniform day of eight hours be established. Arthur B. Noyes, who has been removed by President Roosevelt from his position' as Judge of the United States District of Alaska, is at a sanitarium near Redlands, where he expects to remain until his health improves. George Kominski of Ironwood, Mich., aged 20, had his head blown off while he was hunting. Molders employed in the Fairbanks, Morse & Co. plant at Racine, Wis„ have struck because the company, as they claim, discharged a man without just cause. Rev. William Stark of Baltimore has submitted to remarkable operation, his brain being lifted and the roots of nerves which caused excessive neuralgia extracted. His recovery is expected. General Frederick Funston, at Kansas City on his way to Washington, said he had received over 200 invitations to lecture, but would accept none. He will speak at the Marquette Club banquet at Chicago March 11. Men students of Professor Dean’s class in sociology at Chicago University have declared against coeducation. Two Chicago investors advanced $l5O in a gold brick deal in which they thought they were buying an iron mine.

The son of Senator Clark won $60,000 on two horses at Oakland. The French company voted to postpone negotiations for the sale of the Panama Canal to the United States. Colombia has refused to transfer the concession until a new deal Is made. Two big diamond firms of Amsterdam are accused of swindling smaller dealers. E. L. Brown has been appointed general superintendent of the Montana Central Railroad. Rudolph De Lucenay, the French count, was convicted of bigamy at El Paso, Tex., and sentenced to three years in the penitentiary. Gov. Davis of Arkansas pardoned Charles B. Hans, of Clay county, who was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to two years in the penitentiary. John Edwin Skinner, son of the Baptist minister at Clarendon, Tex., was burned to death at his home. \ C. H. Gaunt has been appointed superintendent of telegraph on the Santa Fe road. John T. Baker, formerly a wellknown attorney of Anaconda, Mont., was frozen to death in Nevada. The Venezuelan congress has ratified the election of Gen. Castro as president for six years, beginning Feb 20 last. ,/ Defiance Starch, 16 ounces, 10 cents. French bark Les Adelphes, 162 days from Madagascar for Portland, Oregon, put into Port Angeles, Wash., with the entire crew down with scurvy and almost .starved. The net earnings of the Chicago & Alton for January were $233,441.

Lewis Thurber Lazell, one of tfte leading manufacturers of pexJtrmwy fax America, is dead at his residence in Brooklyn. He was boj® in Worcester, Mass., in 1825. The report that J. Pierpont Morgan has presented $2,000,000 to the University of the South at Suwanee, Tenn., was denied at the offices of J. P. Morgan & Co. in New York. It was stated that Mr. Morgan had decided not to sail for Europe for several weeks. John M. Wisker, the engineer of the New York Central railroad, who was indicted on Friday by the grand jury for manslaughter in the tunnel wreck of Jan. 8, gave $5,000 bail. John B. McDonald, the subway contractor, has done half the digging for the tunnel at New York at a cost of $13,750,000, and the engineers expect the remainder of the excavation will be completed in thirteen months. As a result of a conference between the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen and Order of Railway Conductors and Erie railroad officials the Erie has granted an Increase in pay over its entire system from New "York to Chicago and a mileage basis, known as “standard pay,” in effect from March 1. The twenty-first victim of the Park Avenue hotel fire died in Bellevue hospital. He was Edward S. Helse, 26 years old, a salesman of Columbia, Tenn. At St. Louis, Mo., Pasquale Cavallas shot Mrs. Georgiana Bonnlarta and himself after declaring his love for her. An industrial magnate of Odessa named Alexander Aflanoff, supposed to be a millionaire, has absconded, and it is said he perpetrated frauds amounting to $1,000,000. English and American houses are the principal sufferers. A Danish-American college is planned to be built soon in Racine. The Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific will, it is understood, build a cut-off ninety miles long from Fairbury, Neb., to Herrington, Kas., thus making a direct line from Omaha to El Paso. The manufacture of paper out of cornhusks instead of wood pulp is the chief object of a $10,000,000 corporation organized by Chicago men and incorporated in Delaware. Sir Albert L. Jones, President of the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce, and a distinguished party are at Kingston, Jamaica. Logan Harold and “Like” O’Neils, fire bosses in the Haileyville coal mine, one mile' from Hartshorne, I. T., were killed by an explosion of gas. On the farm of F. B. Spilman, seven miles north of Monett, Mo., at a depth of 147 feet, a peculiar kind of water was discovered. When meat and vegetables were cooked in it they would turn to a deep-red color and become almost unpalatable. By a decision of the Court of Civil Appeals, the city of Galveston, Texas, is relieved of responsibility for private property seized for public purposes in the great storm of 1900: An ancillary bill was filed in the United States Circuit Court at Atlanta, Ga., praying for a receiver for the Columbia Building and Loan Association of Richmond, Va. The assets of the association are stated to be $200,000, with liabilities at the same figure. At Pittsburg negotiations were consummated for the formation of the United States fireproofing Company by the purchase and consolidation of eleven Independent interests. The new company will have $1,250,000 capital and $500,000 of bonds, but this capital will be increased to $5,000,000. Rear Admiral B. J. Cromwell, U. S. N., retired, recently in command of the Mediterranean squadron, has arrived at New York on board -the steamer Lahn, from Naples. Lieutenant I. H. Sypher and Lieutenant Commander J. H. Oliver, U. S. N., were also passengers on board the Lahn. The joint committee of lowa miners and operators at Des Moines adjourned without agreeing on scale. Another conference has been called for March 11.

Instructions have been received at the Riverton and the Sober mine properties of the Oliver Mining company at Iron River, Mich., to take on at once 300 men. These mines have been shut down since last summer.

Bob Hines, sentenced to hang for murder twenty years ago at Jefferson, Tex., has just been recaptured and taken back to Jefferson, where he was identified and placed in jail. George Basford was buried while digging a well near Danner, Tex. * The only financial institution in the world, so far as known, that will not accept New York exchange in lieu of actual cash is the treasury department of Texas. Grace Eaton, an inmate of a disorderly house in Terre Haute, Ind., was burned to death by her dress catching fire from a match, with which she had lighted a cigarette. The Northern Pacific road has decided to build a bridge costing $2,000,000 across the Columbia river at Vancouver. The loss on the Wingate sawmill at Orange, Tex., was SBO,OOO, with $43,000 insurance. About 200,000 feet of lumber was destroyed. Burglars broke into the general store of C. E. Larson at Cambridge, lowa, blew open the safe with dynamite, rifled it and made their escape with a stolen team. About SIOO, with a quantity of stamps, checks and drafts, was secured. The trouble pending between the Gulf, Colorado And Santa Fe Company and its machinists has been adjusted. In the district court at Houston, Tex., Charles Barrus was given a judgment against the Texas and New Orleans Railroad Company for $10,418 for the loss of a hand.