Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1900 — Telegraphic Brevities. [ARTICLE]

Telegraphic Brevities.

A Boston man shot a pure white deer in Aroostook County, Maine. S : An aged woman was stoned in broad daylight on the streets of Rochester by a gang of toughs. Charges of unlawful dramatization of "The Little Minister” have been tiirned Into criminal proceedings at Chicago. Methodist ministers of Chicago passed a resolution requesting the President to recommend to Congress legislation to prevent lynching. Sir Alfred Milner proclaimed that all the east cyast ports of South Africa, between the tenth and fortieth parallels, were infected with bubonic plague. Colorado at present has 2,000,000 acres of land under irrigation. State Engineer McCune estimates that with reservoirs properly placed at least 20,000,000 additional acres could be made productive, Twelve years ago-farming waa practical l/* unknown in Colorado. When Lieut. Gov. Timothy Woodruff of New York visited Dannamora State prison recently be asked to be locked in a dark cell, the extreme form of punishment at the prison, Before he had been there a full minute he asked to be freed, saying that he had experience enough for % lifetime.