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

This and That.

August Lowell, Boston, gave $50,000 to the institute of technology. Richard S. Berlin of Omaha, Neb., has been appointed census supervisor of that city. Postmaster Bailey, colored, Millview, Fla., gets five years in the pen for embezzlement. Giantess Ella Ewing has erected a house at Gorin, Mo., ,the doors of which are ten feet high. James Tates, a Chicago waiter, was fatally stabbed with an umbrella in the hands of a customer. A Sonora (Mexico) mine operator says the war with the Yaqui Indians will continue for two years. Patrick Harrington of Sacramento, Cal., had his mind unbalanced while taking a degree in a society. German officials who accompanied the Emperor to England have been appointed honorary knights of the Victorian order. Efforts are being made to combine the leading manufacturers of enameled bathtubs, washtubs, laundry and bathroom equipments. Surgeon General Sternberg of the United States army is said to have found a Venezuelan shrub which will cure the leprosy. Struggling with a cat which he was trying to kill. Francis Pelky, of Novato, Cal., was shot in the foot, the animal clawing the trigger of the rifle which he held in one hand. Constable Cornwell and George Howard, near Columbia, S. C., are dead. Moonshine whisky fight. Andrew Sallender, city assessor, Frankfort, Ky., died of blood poisoning, caused by the cutting of a small pimple on his face. Speyer & Co., New York have purchased the holdings of the Stanford estate in the Southern Pacific, amounting to 285,000 shares. In accordance with a dying wish, the ashes of Mrs. Clara Karl’s body were scattered to the winds from the statue of liberty in New York bay.