Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1902 — Two Killed by the “Bends." [ARTICLE]

Two Killed by the “Bends."

'John Kohler nnd John Oltcrman, employed in the Cleveland water works tunnel which extends several miles out into the lake, were attacked by the peculiar disease known as “bends,’’ and both died an hour after the attack. This makes flrty-flve deaths In the tunnel since work was begun.

The Comptroller of tbs Currency has approved tha application of the Bank of Yukon, O. T., to convert into the First National Bank of Yukon, with a capital of »25,000. ■. -• * „ . r * ■ * ****- t'V

for an estimate by MaJ. Gen. F. V. Greene, who reckoned the total population in 1808 at between 7,000.000 and 9,000,000. Amid all the uncertainty It may be assumed that the Hpaolards had a nearly accurate idea of the number of Christians in Luzon and the Vlsayaa, which they placed at 5,422,000. For the rest there is little besides conjecture and speculation, and a shrinkage from the larger estimates was to be expected. Censuses have been known to do deadly execution even In American cities, so that they are naturally inimical to the exaggerations of the Orient.—Chicago Itecord-llerdld.