Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1900 — Brief News Items. [ARTICLE]

Brief News Items.

French wine will be cheap owing to the great grape crop. Fred Berry, Pittsburg, Me., killed a moose in his own dooryard. Twenty natives were drowned nnd thousands made homeless in the floods in India. Two children of George Sharp, Point Pleasant, W. Va., started a fire with terosene. Both dead. Boxers are pillaging the provinces of ghan-tung and Chili and are said to have secured more than 100,000 taels in recent raids. Capt. Llddle of the British steamer Bleddyn, has lochted a submarine volcano at the edge of Campeche bank, gulf of Mexico. Harry Weller, Putnam, Ohio, shot Homer Goodhart at the home of Miss Minnie Davis, to whom Goodhart is engaged. All prominent.

Alice Orr, 14, Chicago, was killed by a train. Morris C. Curtis, Berea, Ohio, once wealthy, was stabbed to death at a dance by an unknown person. Ed Gwiley, insane negro, Algiers. La., cut his roommate’s throat. A crowd pursued him and heat him to death. It was estimated that 10,000 troops would winter in Pekin, the German force being the largest. By a vote of 32 to 1 the St. Louis (Mo.) Presbytery has decided against any revision of the creed. Francois 8. Jones, secretary of the United States legation at Buenos Ayres, was drowned at Charlottesville, Va. Seventy-two new coal mines have been opened in Prussia this year, increasing the output for 1900 by 2,500,000 ton*. Twenty-five men of Battery O, First Arillery, and three men of the hospital corps were loat in the Galveston disaster.