Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1901 — ITEMS HERE AND THERE. [ARTICLE]

ITEMS HERE AND THERE.

The Attica Ledger says the j Williamsport Review’s discovery that the magno-lithia spring at Mudlavia was going dry, was a pipe dream. The spring, according to the Ledger is still pouring out its pellucid stream as liberally and unceasingly as ever it did Knox had a bad fire Sunday morning in which quite a number of business houses were distroyed. Among them the Knights of Pythias brick block, built 7 years ago at a cost of 110,000.. The entire loss was estimated in press reports at $50,000, but very likely this is a great exaggeration. The youngest known life convict in the country began his imprisonment in the state prison at Miohigan City last week. He is Smith Jones, thirteen years old and was convicted of murder in the first degree in the Warriok county circuit court. The crime was so cold blooded that instead of sending the lad to the reform school the judge sent him to prison. —— -———— A man in Rochester was married for the sixth time recently, and prior thereto sent an invitation to a son living in Chicago, j The young man mailed his regrets, saying that it weis impossible for him to be present, but if pardoned he would pledge his word and honor to attend next time.

The Pan-American Exposition has not been a suocess financially. The exposition will close today November 2, and it is now claimed that the loss will reach $4,000,000. The stockholders will lose the $2,600,000 which they put in and the contractor who built the exposition buildings will lose over $1,000,000. Not flattering for poor old St. Louis and her show billed for 1903. There was an accident on the Monon out of the ordinary, according to the Salem Democrat, whioh tells of a Bedford man who took his first meal in a dining oar the other day. He went to hang up his hat, but finding the hook bent the wrong way, he turned it up. There was a frightful rattle of dishes and many were scooped off on the floor. He had turned the emergency air brake. Judge Thompson will use the material of the old building, now being torn down south of the Makeever House, in a new tenant house to be erected near the river, south of Granville Moody’s place. The other old building on the same lots is also to be moved to the same vicinity, and refitted for a tenant house. If the Judge finds ready renters for these two houses he will build three more on the same tract

Both of Rensselaer’s noted college foot ball players were in good games, Saturday. Albert Marshall played quarter baok in Wisconsin’s game with Nebraska, at Milwaukee, where Wisconsin won by a score of 18 to 0. Marshall made the seoond longest run of the game, and his playing was especially commended by the Chicago papers. Ed Mills played half back with Purdue inthe game with CaSe, and made one of the touoh downs.

Dr. Orville Burnett the Chioago dentist and ex-football player who was with Mrs. Charlotte Nichol when the latter committed suioide at a State street hotel recently, alone fulfilling an agreement which Burnett says that they made to die together, rather than be separated, has been indicted for murder as an accessory before the faot. Burnett is well remembered here by a number of people. He seems in fair way to have a job of tinkering teeth in Joliet penitentiary for some years to come.