Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 March 1903 — NEWS OF THE WORLD [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WORLD

Industrial, Political, Domestic and Fsreip Happenings ol Minor Importance Told ia Paragraphs. President Castro has left Caracas for La Victoria. It is his purpose to rest and to prepare his message to congress. The report of a government victory at Cumarebo over the revolutionists under Generals Riera and Penelazo is confirmed. Deere & Co. of Illinois, plow manufacturers, have filed with the county clerk at Dallas, Tex., a deed of trust covering the issuance of bond& to the amount of $1,500,000, the guarantor being an Illinois trust company. The object of the bond issue is for the enlargement of the Texas branch of the company. A movement is on foot to bring about *the pardon of Euclid Maddon, the Pittsfield, Mass., electric railway motormau who recently was sentenced to six months in the house of correctibn for manslaughter in causing the death of Secret Service Agent William Craig, killed last September in the accident in which President Roosevelt and Governor Crane were involved. The press announces that Emperor William of Germany will reach Rome May 2 and leave May 6. Owing to persistent demonstrations by students against Senor Allende Balazar, the minister of public instruction, the university at Barcelona has been closed. A partial settlement has been effected in the mill men’s strike at Colorado City, Colo., on account of which state troops were ordered out. One of the features of the settlement is an agreement that the troops be withdrawn at once. Gottlieb Niegenfrled, who murdered his divorced wife and her father, was hanged at Lincoln, Neb. The safes in the office of the Standard Oil Company at Atlanta, Ga., were robbed of SSOO in money and $2,000 in cheeks. Joseph Roth Was acquitted at Hamilton, Ohio, of the charge of assaulting Hattie and Stella Motzer. Alfred Knapp, the murderer, is suspected of having assaulted the girls. Mrs. Margaret Lisle Shepperd, “the escaped nun,” who delivered antiCatholic lectures all over the world for several years, died recently at Detroit, and the remaiqs were secretly interred, “to avoid a demonßtrar ■ tkm.”- , .. The Long Island sound steamer New Hampshire of the Stonington line ran down a Long Island railroad float in the East river, on which there were fourteen loaded freight cars, which were thrown into the river. Some of the cars were broken by the impact and the light freight floated down the river. Signor Bovio, the leader of the republican party in the Italian chamber, died - at Naples. The imports of France for January and February increased $13,325,800 and the exports increased $8,553,200. The London treasury experts are greatly disappointed by the revenue returns and are forecasting a deficit when Mr. Ritchie makes his budget speech. There are shortages in excise, the customs and income tax. The mail steamers Prince Adelbert and Prince Seigismund, iu their passage between Kiel and Korson, Denmark, are continuously in Connection with the mainland by the Slaby wireless telegraph system. The government is accepting messages at 20 cents a word. Hugo Gorlitz, agent of Richard Strauss, authorizes a denial of the published report that Strauss had been engaged to lead the orchestra of the Metropolitan opera house, New York. It is stated that the Bulgarian premier, Dr. Daneff, will take the war portfolio ad interim in consequence of the resignation of War Minister Paprikoff. No other changes in the cabinet are anticipated. The Dominion Line steamer New England arrived at Genoa with 262 American tourists aboard. All are well and are proceeding on the New England to Alexandria, whence they will visit Cairo. Fireman J. M. Shaver was killed and Engineer John Carroll probably fatally injured in a collision between a Colorado Southern passenger train and a freight near Trinidad. Colo. The Omaha Flyer and a freight train collided on the Union Pacific Road at Gilmore, Neb. Fireman C. P. Hayes was killed and four other persons injured. The condition of Baron Nathaniel De Rothschild, who is ill at Naples, Is critical. Rev. Dr. Joseph Krauskopf , of Cincinnati has accepted the position of director general of the Isaac N. Wise endowment fund committee of the Hebrew Union college. In the Missouri house by a vote of 65 to 70 the separate railroad coach for colored people bill failed of final passage. R. H. Moore, a wealthy cotton buyer, shot and killed A. McLaughlin on the street at Paris, Texas, as the outcome of an old quarrel. Judge Adams of St. Louis, who issued the Wabash injunction, was hanged in effigy at Kansas City, Mo. The miners’ strike in the Twelve Hole district* of West Virginia has been declared off, all disputes being amicably settled.