Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1901 — Brief News Items. [ARTICLE]

Brief News Items.

The Chicago City Council ha* adjourned to Sept. 23Three large steel mills, Balboa, Spain, will consolidate. A New York syndicate has bought 8,060 acres of lead lands in Missouri, paying $1.000,000. Germany has dissolved all the Polish clubs in Prussian universities, even including those with scientific aims! Secretary Root has raised the standard of admission to West Point by adding algebra, English literature and trigonometry to the requirements. A clergyman at Saranac Lake has been challenged to fight a duel to the death by a young gentleman who differed with him on a mathematic question. Miss Lucy Hanna, bookkeeper for the Marietta (Ohio) Daily Register, was killed by a shock from a live wire on an incandescent lamp during a storm.