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

Brief News Items.

Suintiel Gompcrs has gone tt> Porto Rico to study labor conditions there. Charles Fuchs, a Bt. Louis horseman, committed suicide by shooting iu a room nt the Nov Gmener Hotel, Buffalo, ft. Y. Tho entire plant of the Bowen & Scrlmser Oil Itefining Company at Elisabeth |s>rt. N. J., was destroyed by fir*. I-oss $50,000. William Fairfax, a wrecker, wni hilled by a falling wall at Baltimore whtlo razing the ruined front of a building in, the lurned district.