Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1899 — Odds and Ends. [ARTICLE]

Odds and Ends.

Louisville school board condemns golf skirts. Georgia’s prohibition bill was killed in the Senate. Mountain Valley Hotel, Hot Springs,, Ark., burned. Augusta, Ky., school building, worth $20,000, burned. Charles Grey, Wellston, 0., blown to atoms in a mine. James McConnell, editor of the Philadelphia Star, is dead. John Fritz. Celina, 0., fatally stabbed his wife iu the breast. Rumored that the P., C. & T. has been acquired by the B. & Q. Edison and Columbus, 0., electric light plants will consolidate. Half the business portion of Camby, Tex., burned. Loss $25,000. Eight firemen, Montgomery, Ala., were injured by a gasoline explosion. Union Pacific people deny that the Northwestern has leased that road. Two men were asphyxiated by gas in a little shoe repairing shop in Brooklyn. Sells Bros.’ circus may remove headquarters to Bridgeport, Conn., from Columbus, Ohio. Texas health board has established quarantine at Galveston against ships from Santos, Brazil, where plague exists. Willis J. Abbot, well known in newspaper circles, will take charge of the press bureau of the Democratic national committee. Minnesota railroads have eoacfaded contracts for the delivery of 600.000,000 feet of pine logs to mills in the vicinity of Dublin. The pilot boat James Gordon Bennett was struck by a dummy shell fired from the Sandy Hook proving ground and badly damaged. Pete Thompson was killed at Bi Reno, Okla., by John Curtis, son of Robert Curtis, a wealthy white man, who married into the Caddo Indian tribe. Jailer Wm. Shockley and his son, Harry Shockley, Columbus, Ohio, were indicted by the United States grand jury .on the charge of aiding Capt. I. T. Jobe to escape from jail. United States will have an irrigation exhibit at the Paris show. Cotton mills of New’ Hampshire have increased wages 10 per cent. Conductor Howard, Newark, 0., was killed in a collision near Mansfield. Engineer Peterman badly injured. Many negroes are said to have been duped into leaving Georgia for Mississippi by an alleged female immigrant agent. Joseph C. Hoagland, 55, founder of the Royal Baking Powder Company, died in New York. He was several times a millinns iro.