Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1900 — Brief News Items. [ARTICLE]

Brief News Items.

Boers say the 'British are using ar-mor-picrcing shells. , Henry J. Fitzgerald’s trunk factory, Chicago, Loss $75,000. Thieves stole $1,500 worth of property from the home of F. P. Furnald, New York. John P. Larney, New York, was thrown from a buggy in Central Park and killed. Bandits in a private steamer robbed the priests at Nam-noi, China, of $5,000 worth of valuables.