Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 76, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1901 — Brief News Items. [ARTICLE]

Brief News Items.

Floods rendered 500 persons destitute at Elizabeth and Watauga, Tenn. i Nearly 400 oil well companies have been 1 chartered in Texas the past three months. Since the departure of Gen. Alger for Carlsbad,. Germany, it has been reported that he is suffering with Bright s disease. Texas has nearly exhausted her supply of mules and horses, in an effort to furpish animals to the home and English governments. An effort will lie made to secure a par-, don for Ben Ali. known ns “Frenchy,” who was convicted of the murder of a woman called “Old Shakspearej in a New York hotel, ten years ago. There has been a slight falling off in the enlistments for the regular army since the withdrawal of that portion of the advertisement saying that recruits and new regiments were being enlisted for the Philippipes.