Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 January 1903 — All Around the Globe. [ARTICLE]

All Around the Globe.

Union plumbers, St. Louis, get $5 a day. Boat capsized near Viscaya, Spain, and ten persons drowned. Packet Columbia burned near Pittsburg, Pa. Loss $50,000. Little child of Peter Eckelson, Deadwood, S. D., burned to death. Children

placed a lighted candle in the cradle and forgot it. Spain will appropriate 500,000 pesetas for an exhibit at the St. Diuis world’s fair. Nine main buildings of the St. Ixmis world’s fair are in process of construction. James Kline, Boston, swallowed poison and died. A girl had refused to marry him. People of> Port Morris, N. Y., tori down a vacant house and used the tim> for fuel. The 2-year-old baby of William Cason, Covington, Ivy., fell in the fire and burned to death. Independent tinplate manufacturers will cut prices $5 a ton on sheets and $4 to $3.50 a box on tin. Gunners on the warship Kentucky, at Manila, out of 21 shots, bit the target 19 times. The best ever. Clarence Bchimelpfennig was probably fatally burned at Plano, Texas, by his clothing catching fire.