Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1903 — Sparks from the Wires. [ARTICLE]

Sparks from the Wires.

Heavy rains about Memphis, Tenn., did $500,000 damage. Mrs. Lyde Ward, 53, St. Louis, turned on the gas. Dead. Wreck on B. & 0., Oakland, Md., injured six passengers. Rockefeller lias given another $1,000,000 to Chicago University. King Edward will, It has been announced. visit Ireland next year. Miss Clara Barton has boon elected president for life of the National Bed Cross Society. w