Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 80, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 June 1903 — Sparks from the Wires. [ARTICLE]

Sparks from the Wires.

Trainmen and officials of the Northern Pacific road reached ail agreement ns to wages and the running of double-header trains. m Major Gen, Shnfter, United States army, retired, was elected department commander of the G. A. R., for California and Nevada. The Philippine government has suppressed two seditious plays, one in Manila, and one at Batangas, capital of the province of that name. The war cloud in the Orient has led to discussion of status of the 00,000 Japanese in Hawaii. It is estimated that 25,000 of them are subject to recall for military service, and the problem of transportation would be a difficult one. William I*. Harrison, a switchman for the Burlington, 28 years old, fell beneath a switch engine in St. Joseph, Mo., and lost both his legs. Daniel G. Reid of New York hns given $50,000 toward establishing a public hospital in Richmond, Ind.. bis native city. Mr. Reid will also erect a $75,000 church for the United Presbyterian. A special fram Saionica announces that a court-martial has sentenced to death the Bulgarian schoolmaster named Yorgbi, the instigator of the destruction by dynamite on April 30 of the Ottoman bank at Saionica.