Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 92, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 July 1902 — News of Minor Note. [ARTICLE]

News of Minor Note.

Andrew Carnegie Is not confining his library gifts to thia country. He is giving in England almost as liberally as on this side of the Atlantic. Oxford University conferred the honorary degree of Doctor of Civil Law on Joseph H. Choate, the United States ambassador to Great Britain. Forty-nine persons were Injured, several of them seriously, as a result of the collision of two trains on the electric line between Blionschie and Porto Ceresio, Italy. The deciding polo game of the series of three for the American cup was won by the British team at Hurllngham, England, by a score of 7 to 1. The Western branch of the Kansas State Normal School, founded as a result of the gift of the Fort Hays military reservation to the State, was opened there with appropriate ceremonies. A representative of the Standard Oil Company has asked Joplin, Mo., for a franchise to furnish natural gas In that city for 25 cents per 1,000 feet for domestic purposes and 20 cents for manufactories.