Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 February 1903 — NEWS OF THE WORLD [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WORLD

Industrial, Political, Domestic and Foraifia Happenings el Minor Importance Told in Paragraphs. J Prof. G. A. Coe of Northwestern university and G. B. Foster of the University of Chicago have been chosen as teachers in the Harvard university summer school of theology, which is to begin its session. July 7 and continue until July 23. Thomas L. Wilson, fourth vice president of the Machinists’ National union and who has been conducting the machinists’ strike on the Union Pacific road, states that the machinists on the Southern Pacific road will not be called out. Six of the principal independent cigar factories in Havana have entered into an agreement not to sell their brands or plants to anybody for ten years under a penalty of $200,000. Two other firms, among the largest independent concerns, have not signed, owing to the fact that under the wills of their founders they are not permitted to transfer the business except to the owners’ legal heir. Betsey Hulet Foster, daughter of John Hulet, who fought in the war of tne revolution at Bunker Hill, and who was present at the surrender of Burgoyne, died at Berea, Ohio. bae was 92 years old. George A. Woodford, wholesale liquor dealer, died suddenly at Indianapolis of fatty degeneration of the heart. He was a well known business man of the city, and was 68 years old. Herr von Dolbrueck, honorary Prussian minister of state, is dead. Sir George Gabriel Stokes, master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, formerly president, of the Royal Society and of the British Association, is dead. Meyer Lutz, the operatic composer and for many years musical director of the Gayety theater at London, is dead. The Norwegian steamer Avona was wrecked at Lemvig, Denmark, and it is feared all the crew were drowned. Six bodies were recovered. Christian Russell of Chicago fell Into the river at Detroit and when taken out was so badly frozen that it was feared his limbs would break if moved. It is supposed pneumonia will develop. Andrew Carnegie has offered a $lO,000 library to Paxton, 111. Reimer Blesse, aged 65, committed suicide at Valparaiso, Ind., by hanging himself. Safe blowers wrecked the safe in the postoffice at Larwill, ind., securing S4OO in cash and stamps. British revenue returns are more favorable than Mr. Ritchey has been willing to admit. The estimated receipts will be exceeded in nearly every instance. Income taxation will yield the largest aggregate on record. Customs receipts will show a substantial increase. The chamber of deputies at Rome decided to send congratulations by wireless telegraphy to Signor Marconi on the success of his work. The minister of posts and telegraphs announced that he would introduce a bill providing for the installation of a wireless station which would unite Rome with America. While (here are rumors of trouble in other parts of China, Canton is quiet in consequence of the prompt measures of the governor. There have been several arrests made of suspected persons in Hong-Kong on account of the information received from Canton that the governor has offered $40,000 for the capture of the leader of the so-callea reform party who escaped from the city after the recent disturbances. The reichsrath ratified the Brussels sugar convention. Yard conductors and yard brakemen over the entire Erie railway system have been granted an average increase in wages of 11 per cent. While en route to a funeral, Benjamin Gillen and Thomas Crisman were run down and killed by a Vandalia train at a crossing at Darlington, Ind.

Riley P. Owens, an attorney of Alton, 111., mysteriously disappeared in St. Louis while on his wedding trip, and his bride fears he has met with foul play. William Garland, nephew of a former mayor of Springfield, 111., fatally shot Mrs. F. B. Neal of Warrensburg, Mo., and killed himself at Clifton, Ariz. The car barn of the Bay City Consolidated Street Railway Company, Bay City, Mich., burned, causing a loss of $35,000, partly insured. Toronto, Ont., is in receipt of a communication from Andrew Carnegie offering $350,000 for the erection of new public libraries. The business portion and a number of residences of Buck Creek, Ind., near Lafayette, burned. The loss is about $16,000. Herman Helsicher, a young cigarmaker who on Dec. 19 attempted to kill Voltairine De Cluyre, a noted anarchist, was convicted at Philadelphia, of aggrevated assault and battery with Intent to kill and was sentenced to six years and nine months’ imprisonment. The British ship Helga, Captain Ferguson, from San Francisco for Cork, before reported ashore near Queenstown, is still intact. Heavy seas are breaking over the vessel, but owing to a southwest gale prevailing no attempt at salvage has been made.

The Southern Pacific has reached on agreement with its firemen on the question of wages. The increase in wages granted averages between 6 and 12 per cent. A strong current of feeling in Mexico City favors Chinese immigration on a large scale to secure an outlet for a considerable share of Mexico’s silver output. / * , The reichstag has passed the second reading of the bill protecting child labor in factories and shops and prohibiting the employment of children under 12 years of age in some branches of industry and under 13 years in others. The hill of Tara, so rich in historic memories, will shortly be sold at auction in Dublin. The melting of the snow has caused extensive floods and serious damage in Scotland. The River Tay has overflowed in Pentshire. In Inverness the River Nesse has overflowed and the railroau bridges have been damaged. The River Dee has flooded parts of Balmoral and has elsewhere caused great destruction. William Marconi has sailed for England. The Franklin county, Ky„ grand jury adjourned. Notwithstanding the fact that Henry E. Youtsey, serving sentence for life as accessory to the murder of Governor Goebel, was before the jury for over a week, no indictments In the Goebel case were returned. A special grand jury called by Judge Brown at Ely, Nev., to investigate the tragedy of Jan. 7, in which three men were killed and two wounded, returned two indictments against William Lloyd, president of the miners’ union, who is charged, with having concocted a scheme for getting rid of Traylor, either by kidnaping him or taking his life. John St. Clair, alias Sinclair, a negro, who murdered his sweetheart eight months ago, was hanged at Washington. Committees of firemen and trainmen of the Wabash railroad have arranged with President Ramsey for a conference at St. Louis in February to present grievances. The wage question will come up. The big lumber mills at Port Blakeley, Wash., together with 50,000 acres of timber lands in Mazon and Kitsap counties, have been sold for $3,000,000 to a syndicate of Michigan lumbermen. John T. McDonough of Albany, N. Y., announced that he would accept the appointment as justice of the supreme court of the Philippine islands, which was tendered him by President Roosevelt. The volcano of lsalco, In the Central American republic of Salvador, has Increased in activity and there is fear of an eruption. For several months the volcano has been smoking, but now fire issues from the crater and is accompanied by rumblings. The magnificent sideboard which the young women of Cincinnati had made and presented to Mrs. Lucy Webb Hayes when she was the mistiess of the White House as a token of their approval of her action in barring wine from the presidential dinners was put up at an auction sale of discarded White House furniture and knocked down to the proprietor of a beer garden for SBS, which is much less than the material cost. Experiments on the military railway between Berlin and Sossen in connection with keeping a moving train in continuous wireless communication with the signal station have been completed successfully. The Braun system was used. John Rodeneizer, a small farmer 1 living near Durand, Wis., shot his son, Casper, inflicting serious but probably not fatal wounds. He has been arrested and will be held to await the result of his son’s injuries. William Garland at Clifton, Ariz., shot a woman known as ‘ China Dot” and himself. The woman’s identity was unknown until after her death, when it was learned her name was Mrs. E. P. Neal, formerly of Warrensburg, Mo. The shortage of former Secretary G. C. Bayer of the Germania, Circleville and New Citizens’ Building and Loan association of Clrcleville, 0., who has disappeared, is said to be about SIOO,OOO. The United States charge d'affaires, Henry White, was a guest at a luncheon to King Edward and Queen Alexandra given by Earl Carrington at High Wycombe. Buckinghamshire. , . Serious factional fighting between Kaffirs has occurred in the Umzinto district, thirty seven miles from Durban, Natal. It is reported thut forty of the natives were killed. Governor Van Sant of Minnesota has issued a proclamation requesting the people of the state to contribute to relieve the distress of the starving in portions of Sweden, Norway and Finland. Ohio’s coming centennial celebration at Chillicothe, which opens next day, will not see President Roosevelt. In a letter from his secretary received by Governor Nash the president regrets previous engagements covering a trip to the Pacific coast preclude the possibility of his acceptance. Heirship to the estate of Mrs. Joseph Cota, wife of Capt. Cota of Menominee, has been established after three years’ litigation and Caris Bergeron of Porterfield will receive the greater part of the estate, valued at $12,000. Application for pardon has been made to Governor Odell on behalf of Thomas Tobin, who was convicted of the murder of Captain Craft, whose head was cut off in the basement of • drinking place in New York. It is asked on the ground that Tobin was Insane and illegally convicted.