Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 122, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1903 — Short News Notes. [ARTICLE]

Short News Notes.

Lightning split the big smokestack. 265 feet high, at Armour’s packing t ) at Kansas City. i It is reported that Grant G. Gillett is preparing to leave Mexico and g-,o New York City. Citizens of Knoxville, Tenn., have secured an injunction restraining a neighbor's dog from barking. Samuel L. Stevenson, recorder of deeds of Greensburg, Pa., lost his life in the surf at Atlantic City, N. J. The salmon pack of the Pacific coast this year will be very much below the average of the past few years. Edgar A. Binsford committed suicide at Atlanta, Ga. He was the son of Jameif 11. Binsford of Greenfield, Ind. Weigel & Co., boat builders, of Roscoe, Pa., hnre filed a petition in bankruptcy, placiug liabilities at $107,460 and assets at $80,700. The Hnmmond iron works of Warren, Pa., were totally destroyed by fire, entailing a loss of $75,000 and throwing 200 men out of employment. Fred Bogart, a .hostler of Freeville, N. Y., 21 years old, is raving mad aa the result of smoking forty cigarettes a . day for the past two years. .Gov. Dbckery of Missouri has decided to offer a reward of SSOO for the apprehension of D. J. Kelley, icgialativo agent of the baking powder trust. Gov. I>ockery appointed John Kelly of St. Joseph to be judge of the Second district of Buchanan County, Mo., to succeed Judge Harry L>. Bassett, recently deceased. Rolla Ward, aged 10 years, was ran over by a wngon loaded with agatrte on which he had climbed for a ride in Wichita. Kan., and sustained injuries from which he died. Samuel P. Montgomery, a mining man of Joplin, Mo., has invented and patented a device that separates, gold from grave] and dirt in placer mines without the aid of water.