Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 March 1904 — Short News Notes. [ARTICLE]

Short News Notes.

11 is estimated Hint the damage caused by the earthquake at Lima/ Peru, will amount to $500,000. The Crystal ice plant and three Missouri Pacific cars were burned, nt Wichitn, Kan. Loss $50,000; insurance SIO,OOO. The Merchants’ and Miners’ steamship Essex collided with nnd sunk an unknown five-masted schooner in Chesapeake bay. The crew is reported to have been snved. The Essex was oulr alichtlv damaged