Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 150, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1904 — REPORTS 100,000 HOMELESS. [ARTICLE]

REPORTS 100,000 HOMELESS.

Great Destitution Prevails in Macedons. The latest reports to the American board front the relief centers in Macedonia show that there nre now' IOOJMMI persons homeless nnd without means of support for the winter. Of this number about 52.1 HM) nre in Monnstir vilayet. Tlh- Turlcixh government is affording some relief and funds arc coming from America nnd England. There is f£ar on the part of those on the ground that unless some decisive ateps are taken during the winter there will be another |s>litical outbreak in the spring.

A duel was fought nenV Paris between Captain L-»vi of the Fifth regiment of Engineers and Captain de Malmoy. nnd the foymcr was wounded in the arm. The duel was the result of an altercation over the Dreyfus case. ,

A Bio Grande freight train was wrecked at Adobe, Colo,, nM the discovery that the spikes and tish plates hud been removed from twajaOls lends to a belief that train wreckers intended to ditch the Pacific coast limited, which was due at the time of tlie accident.

The I’nion National and Colonial Na' tional banka of Cleveland have consolidated under the nnine of the former, with Senator M. A. Hanna, who was nt the head of the Union National, ns president. The consolidated capital stock ia >1,000,000, and the deposits >10,000,000.