Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1903 — NEWS OF THE WORLD [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WORLD

Industrial, Pnlttleal, Domestic and Foreign Happenings of Minor Importance Told in Paragraphs. The duchess of Marlborough, accompanied by Lady Norah Churchill, has arrived at Vienna for a stay of six weeks. She will take a further course of treatment from Dr. Mueller for deafness arising from catarrh, from ■which she is suffering. Ten thousand St. Louis brickmakers are expected to strike unless wages are advanced. It is stated at Indianapolis that the national headquarters of the Broommakers’ Union will be removed from Galesburg, 111., to that city. The Korean twins were examined at Boston by means of the X-ray, surgeons expressing the opinion that it will be entirely safe to part them. The seven cotton corporations of Lowell, Mass., have been asked for an increase of 10 per cent in wages. The demand affects 18,000 operatives. A woman giving the name of Mrs. Charlotte G. Wellington, who left a letter saying she was the last of a distinguished family, committed suicide in a boarding-house at Haddonfield, N. J.

Charles Edward Maltby, - the Harvard student of Boston who married Miss Helen Danziger, a chorus girl, says he will forego his income rather than desert his bride as requested by his mother. The British railway companies have embarked upon a policy of complete unification of electric equipment of their lines. A conference at which all railways of Great Britain are represented is now being held at the London clearing house with this object, and many points have already been satisfactorily settled. The returns of Germany’s foreign trade for January show the imports to have been 3,203,699 tons, against 2,966,956 in January, 1902, and the exports 3,149,758 tons against 2,474,258 tons in the same month last year. The exports of raw sugar dropped 38,361 tons chiefly in the trade with England and the United States. The structural iron workers of the Pittsburg, Pa., district, which takes in all points within a radius of 135 miles of that city, struck against an alleged violation of the agreement on the part of the American Bridge company. In Pittsburg 700 skilled and 1,000 unskilled men are out. The strike will tie up all structural iron work in the district. The police have arrested Garfield Snyder, a Denver, Colo., man, on suspicion of having operated as the •‘lone highwayman,” who has held up and robbed a number of saloons in that city recently. During one of these hold-ups Officer John Ritchie, who attempted to capture the muchfeared robber, was shot and dangerously wounded. The Wisconsin assembly refused by a vote of 56 to 37 to pass the bill exempting the beet sugar factories from taxation for twelve years. Chicago and El Paso passenger train No. 40 on the Rock Island is snowed up between Buckly and Liberal, Kan., and other trains are delayed. The report made to the Minneapolis city council shows a shortage of |13,076 in the police department under the administration of Dr. A. A. Ames.

The collection of jewels valued at about $20,000 formerly owned by Kate Castleton, the actress, are to be sold by her mother, Mrs. Eliza Freeman, at Oakland, Cal. At Sioux City, lowa, James Davis was found guilty of the murder of Little Jim. The crime was committed Dec. 15 last. Both parties were Indians. John Heyl, known to the police authorities all over the country and Canada as “Red Hile,” a hotel thief and confidence man, was arrested in Indianapolis.

Blagio Malearosa, convicted in the United States district court at Wilmington, Del., of aiding and abetting in counterfeiting, was sentenced to eight years in the penitentiary. Dr. J. E. Rankin, president of Howard university, Washington, has resigned, owing to advanced age and infirmities. Dr. Teunis S. Hamlin, a member of the board of trustees and pastor of the Church of the Covenant in Washington, has been elected president pro tem. Howard university is one of the leading colored educational institutes of the country. Architect Elijah Meyers of Detroit, Mich., was given a verdict for $14,750 in the United States court in his action against Luzerne county, Pennsylvania. Architect Meyere prepared plans for a new courthouse in Wilkesbarre seven years ago. The plans were accepted, but the commissioners were enjoined by taxpayers from erecting the building. Benjamin L. Goodwin, aged 70, reported to be worth $300,000, one of the richest farmers in central Kentucky, walked into a saloon at Lexington, put a revolver to his cheek and fired, killing himself. Both he and his wife were of prominent families. Because of losses. due to the failure of the wrecked City Savings Bank of Detroit, Frank C. Pingree, a director, will be forced to go into bankruptcy. He states he will lose all he has, about $500,000, excepting household goods worth SSOO.