Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1901 — Notes of Current Events. [ARTICLE]

Notes of Current Events.

George C. Tilden, nephew of Samuel J., is insane, San Francisco. On account of local option fight. Zanesville, Ohio, Mayor Shaw resigned. Thirty Philadelphia firms manufacturing upholstery fabrics will combing. Twelve prisoners escaped from jail. Springfield, Ohio. They sawed out. Seven negroes, Beulah, Mass., died of eharbon. The. disease affects all forms of animal life. Harry Hoover, 15, ltockwood. Pa., was smoking a stogy. Fire from it fell on some dynamite. That was the last of Harry. * The old Bremen mill and smelter at Silver City, X. M-, for years a historic landmark, was burned to the ground. A farmer named McGrath, living near tirockport, X. Y-, killed Ui» wife and then, committed suicide. Their bodies were found iu a field.

The Common Council of Arkansas City, Kan., has passed an ordinance levying an occupation tax on all persons engaged in business in the city. In accordance with the wishes of the Argentine government, the Chamber of Deputies dropped the unification financial bill, w hich disposea of it finally.