Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 135, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1903 — Notes of Current Events. [ARTICLE]

Notes of Current Events.

Oil has been discovered on the Lawton, O. T. townsite. It is announced that St. Louis hotels can care for 50,000 guests. A good flow- of oil has been struck at Toronto, Kan., at a depth of 1,090 feet. ‘Joseph A. Gill has been reappointed associate justice of the Supreme Court of Indian Territory. Tho home rule pnrt.v in Hawaii gained an almost complete victory iu the election of local officers. Reports show that both British im•prtWs and exports made good increases during the month of October. Bessie Ivueeht, the “sleeping girl,” who partially revived at Salt Lake City, Utah, after forty-seven days, is dead. The South Dakota law forbidding the combination of insurance companies to fix premium rates in that State has-been upheld as valid by the United States District Court. For the first .time since American occupation took place, the Philippine Islands have a balance of trade iu their favor—that Is to say, the/exports overbalance the imports.' / Because he waff.tjxypoor to buy medicine for his wife, who was dangerously ill, August Garnux,- aged OS, jumped to death from the west Niminflla creek bridge hear Canton, Ohio.