Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1902 — Short News Notes. [ARTICLE]

Short News Notes.

The New-Orleans Maritime Exchange has established a department for the inspection of cottonseed products. Nelson Hutchinson and Peter Spicer were killed by the explosion of a boiler In a sawmill in a village near Martinsburg, Ohio. Lightning played a peculiar prank during a rain storm near Ottawa, Kan. A horse on Ned Rathjen’s farm backed up to a wire fence during the storm. Lightning struck the fence, ran along the wires and broke both hind legs of the horse. The St. George’s Union of North America at Philadelphia elected John Taylor of Toronto president and Dr. J. S. Stone of Chicago a chaplain. A special committee of the German Baptists met and decided to hold the next national meeting of the denomination in Bellefontaine, Ohio. The Southwest Kansas and Oklahoma Implement Dealers* Association is preparing to wage a vigorous fight against, the new harvester combine. It la proposed to interest the farmers in a boycott of all goods mad* by members of th* eombta*.