Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 92, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1899 — News of Minor Note. [ARTICLE]

News of Minor Note.

Texas floods damaged railroads $2,000,000. Essex Hotel, Bloomfield, N. J., was de■troyed by fire. Loss SIOO,OOO. Nonantum block, Newton, Masa, destroyed by fire. Loss $20,060. Bainard Oliver, 22, Newark, N. J., killed his wife by then escaped. Chas. Jones, New York porter, fell down an air shaft and was killed. Dan L. Davis, Wayland, Ohio, while intoxicated, fell under a train and was killed.