Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1901 — Sparks from the Wires. [ARTICLE]

Sparks from the Wires.

Teamsters’ strike in San Francisco has been settled by Gov. Gage. Amalgamated Association paid out SIOO,OOO in strike benefits’. Name of West Division High School, Chicago, has been changed to William McKinley'school. Italy wants to lend England 25,000 troops for South African service for cost of keeping them, so ’tis said in Birmingham. Actress Maude Roosevelt, cousin of tfie President, says before she would wear tights to please an audience she would quit the stage. “Nit,” said Gov. Odell of New York, when he wns asked by a couple of cranks to commute Czolgosz’s sentence to life imprisonment. .Tust because natives of St. Mathias island killed and ate Prof. Menke and eight black laborers a German cruiser called nnd executed fifty-six natives. State Controller Erastus C. Knight was nominated for Mayor of Buffalo by the Republican city convention. The Democratic city convention nominated Herbert r. Bissell for Mayor.

The Injunction against the use of free text books in the public schools las been dismissed at Cleveland, Judgo Shiras ruling that the petition was ill grounded and without sufficient backing to lead the court to continue the temporary restrain* ing order. S The palmetto trees of Jacksonville, Fla., stood the conflagration better thau any other kind. While nearly all other trees in the wide sweep of the fire perished from the heat, the palmettos are putting out green shoots, showing that they have life and rigor left. __