Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1902 — FATAL TEXAS FLOOD. [ARTICLE]

FATAL TEXAS FLOOD.

TEN PERSONS DIE IN THE RAGING WATERS. Raiafall Reported the Worst Ever Known French President Closes Unauthorized Schools—Railroad Men Want Kissing at Gates Stopped. The rainfall in Western Texas, which is characterized as the worst ever known, continued for two days, and ten persons are known to have lost their lives at Stephensville. Several houses there were surrounded by the overflowing of a stream, and B. Whitely, i» attempting to rescue his family, was drowned with his his little daughter. Assistant County Attorney C. C. Goodner was drowned in an attempt to rescue other members of the same family. This cloudburst was followed by cloudburst in Western Texas, and seas of water have inundated the country, causing great loss to the railroads and interrupting traffic and travel. FEAR INVASION OF CANADA. British Lords Disturbed by Statistics of Immigration. In the House of Lords, Lord Burghclere, Liberal, asked Lord Onslow, Under Secretary for the Colonal Office, if he could inform the House regarding the alarming statements that Canadian land was being bought up by Americans, of whom 200,000 were said to have emigrated to Canada this year. The Under Secretary said he thought Lord Burghclere’s figures were incorrect. In 1901 the number .of Americans who emigrated to Canada was 17,987, while to the most recent date this year the numb.er was 24,100. The Under Secretary also said that in western Canada land was being taken up with unexampled rapidity not only by American*r»but by Englishmen and other Europeans, which bid fair to make Canadian wheat fields an important factor in the wheat supply of the world. COST OF WAR IS ENORMOUS. Britons Warned to Prepare for a Day of Adversity. Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, in an address in London dealing with national finance, the Chancellor said that the Chinese and South African wars had cost Great Britain £228,000,000, of which amount the taxpayers hare already willingly contributed £75,000,000. The expenditure had been borne without serious injury to commerce, And £150,000,000 had been borrowed on easy terms, which Great Britain’s continental neighbors envied, but could not imitate. Next year Sir Michael Hicks-Beach said he looked for a remission of taxation, and he warned his hearers against the constant growth of national expenditure, urging that preparations ought to be made for a day of adversity, and that the revenue, though increasing, should not be-impaired in times of peace. CLOSES UP SCHOOLS. ■ MMta, —' - ■ - - • _ - French President Orders that Twentysix Be Shut Up. President Loubet of France signed a decree submitted by the Premier, M. Combes, ordering the forcible closure of twenty-six congregationalist schools in Paris and in the department of the Seine which have refused to disperse voluntarily. Decrees closing forcibly similar schools in other departments wilTbe signed so soon as the prefects’ reports are received. A serious situation is prevailing in the Catholic country around Brest on account of the closing of the unauthorized schools. The- countryside has taken up arms and is determined to resist any attempt at the forcible execution of the orders of the Premier. Placards have been posted in the townships urging resistance to the police. OPPOSE KISSING AT GATES. Ticket Inspectors at St. Paul Say Practice Causes,Delay. The ticket inspectors at the Union passenger station at St. Paul, Minn., want kissing prohibited and are drawing up a petition to the directors asking that it be forbidden at the gates leading to the train sheds. The inspectors got the idea from the reported orders of Eastern roads. “We don’t care how much kissing people do,” said an inspector, “but they should get it over with before they reach the gates. Delay ensues in getting through the gates. These same people may have been sitting in the waiting-rooms for an hour and there may be found both room and time to kiss.” League Base-Ball Race. Following is the standing of the clubs of the National Baseball League: W. L. W. L. Pittsburg ...50 19 St. Louis.... 36 45 Brooklyn ...48 37 Cincinnati ...34 43 Chicago ....43 38 Philadelphia. 35 48 Boston 40 35 New York-. ..25 53 The clubs of the American League stand as follows: W. L. W. L. Chicago .. .44 32 Washington- 38 42 Philadelphia 42 32 Baltimore ...35 "45 Boston .....45 3C Cleveland . ..$6 45 SL Lou i 5.... 41 80 Detroit 31 44 President Approves Finding. President Roosevelt approves the finding of the court-martial in the cases of Maj. Glenn and Lieut. Gauchol, convicted of administering water cure to Filipinos. • _________ Messenger Boys* Strike Ends. The Chicago messenger boys’ strike ended Sunday night in a practical victory for the employers. Rioting all day and assault with clubs on Detective Peter Johnson, who stabbed bis assailant, disgusted the strikers. Water Famine in Trinidad. Hie water famine, which has been threatening Trinidad, Colo., for so long, is dow a reality. The city is without fire protection, and water for domestic purposes has to be purchased by the bucket-