Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 125, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1903 — Telegraphic Brevities. [ARTICLE]

Telegraphic Brevities.

Six pelicans were killed by a farmer near rerry, Kan. One of them measure.! six feet from tip to'tip of Us wings. Ferdinand Sehondel, a prosperous German farmer living north of Wellsville, Kan., was kicked and fatally J»urt by a horse. Waiter H. Tuttle & Co., shoe manufactiirens of Lynn, Mass., have failed on account of a strike and boycott of their products. Cornell University opened with a largely Increased attendance. inan announced that 3,345 students were registered. The employes of all silver shops in die United States and Canada have made a demand for a nine-hour day and ten hoars’ paT, the new scale to go into effect Jan. 1, 1904. The plant of the Ferrscwte Machine Company of Bridgeton, N. J., was destroyed by fire, entailing a loss estimated at' SIOO,OOO and throwing 200 persons oot of work. While working on the new coffer of the Toronto and Niagara Power Company at Niagara Falla Edward Dell fell into the upper rapids and waa carried ovsr tb* horseshoe falls.