Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1902 — RE-MARK BOUNDARY [ARTICLE]

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CONTINUOUS VISIBLE LINE DE> Dominion Astronomer Will Confer with Chief of Geodetic Survey on Matter Minnesota Supreme Court ' Renders Decision on Gifts of Liquor. W. F. King of Ottawa, Canada, a Dominion astronomer, ia coming to Washington to confer with the chief of the geodetic survey for the purpose of devising plana-for the more permanent marking of the forty-ninth parallel from the Bocky Mountains to the Pacific coast, and for tracing it on the ground in the rugged mountains where the lino had been previously marked at long intervals. The mining interests now call for a continuous visible line. An examination of the line was made n year ago under the direction of the coast and geodetic survey. Congress probably will be asked for an appropriation to carry out the work of demarcation. IN JAIL FOR GIVING A DRINK. Minnesota Supreme Coart Holds Prisoner on Queer Charge. A man who gives a drink to a friend is violating the law unless he has a license. This is the substance of a decision rendered by Justice Lovely of the Minnesota Supreme Court in the case of the State in the matter of Harry Krebs, relator, against Frank Jones, village marshal of Perham, Minn. Krebs, as agent of a St. Paul liquor firm, gave a prospective customer in the village several sample drinks of liquor. He was arrested because he had no license, and bound over in S2OO bail to the next grand jury. He brought habeas corpus proceedings to the Supreme Court to get out of jail, as he could not get bail. The Supreme Court, however, says Krebs must atay in jail. CITY LACKS DROP OF WATER. River Shifts Course and Leave, People ■t Mercy of Possible Fire. The sudden shifting of the main channel of the Missouri River to the lowa side has left Nebraska City, Neb., without a water supply. The water mains are drained and every basin is empty. The electric light plant ia shut down and the streets are dark. The breaking out of a fire might cause disaster. It may be days or weeks before pipes can be ex- " tended to the river'b main channel. Meantime every manufatory in the city dependent on steam or electricity must be shut down. Flee from Collapsed Hotel. Hotel Windsor, a small hostelry, collapsed in Baltimore and is a total wreck. None of the forty guests was injured. Owing to a small crack in a wall. Building Inspector Preston condemned the building and ordered it vacated. The guests moved into what was considered a safe portion of the building. At midnight the guests, scantily clad, sought other sleeping quarters. Burstlar Gets Fifteen Years. George Dickinson, alias Wescott, ‘.he burglar who was arrested iu Philadelphia after n desperate fight with a policeman and who was discovered by detectives to be n robber by night and a business man by day, was tried and convicted and sentenced to fifteen years in the penitentiary. Bad Fire at Princeton. Dickinson Hall, the big recitation building of the academic department of Princeton University, narrowly escaped being burned to the ground. It is thought that some one dropped a lighted cigarette ia the hallway and that the woodwork took fire. The loss is $3,000. Great Western in Omaha. It is announced in Omaha that the Great Western had carried its point against the Union Pacific in the matter of securing entrance to that city over the Union Pacific bridge, which is owned by the Bridge and Terminal Company. Go Over Dam to Death. A skiff containing Charles Love, aged 82 years, and John Rock, aged 1G years, went over dam No. G on the Monongahela river near Rice’s Landing, Pa., and the occupants were both drowned. Masonic Temple Is Burned. At Laconia, N. H., fire destroyed the Masonic temple at a loss of $150,000. The insurance is less than $90,000. Besides the temple a tenement house and * livery stable were destroyed. Fire Destroys Ship at Dock. The steamer Saxon of the Boston and Philadelphia Steamship Company was burned at her dock at Philadelphia. The vessel is a total loss. Death of Famous Cartoonist. Thomas Nast, famous American cartoonist, died of yellow fever at Guayv quil, Ecuador, where he went recently as consul. Death of Thomas R. Reed. Thomas B. Reed, former Speaker of the National House of Representatives, died at the Arlington Hotel, Washington. Gales on KnalUh Coasts. The coast of England is devastated by fierce gales, and considerable loss of life ia reported. There is intense suffering amoug the poor of London. Blown from Train an I Killed. Thomas Tobin of Fair Haven, X. J., wu hilled by being blown from a train near Middletown. » Explosion in a Crematory. Sixty-two pounds of dynamite explod®S|4 wrecked the chapel and columbarium of the Philadelphia Soeietv. killed the superintendent, Howard E Keilltg, and mixed the ashes in 200 urns. . - ' Storm on Atlantic Coast. A blizzard swept along the Atlantic coast, Wrecking shipping and causing much suffering In the dtiee. Several lives were lost. In New York traffic was badJy crippled. Telegraph and telephone systems throughout New England were . ..