Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 71, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1904 — News of Minor Note. [ARTICLE]

News of Minor Note.

The wife of Capt. John Albert Fish was found dead in her room, New York.

It is thought she died from using chloroform. Harry Lehr appeared at Baltimore with a lap dog, which wore five different shades of ribbon in one afternoon. Martin Hanneu, a Minneapolis laborer, was killed and five other persons were injured in a collision between an electric car and a wagon. Prince Hugo Hohenlohe, brother of the head of tiie Hohenlohe-Oeh ringer family, married Mme. Helga, the famous circus rider, at Berlin. Lieut. A. G. Sharpley of tiie Twelfth cavalry, stationed in the Philippines, hns been court-martialed for au attempt to

alienate the affections of an enlisted man's wife. Communication between Buffalo and Cleveland by wireless telegraphy fur commercial purposes has been opened. JKillinm McCoy of Kansas City, Kan., a machinist, shot and‘killed his wife and then shot himself. He will recover. They were married last October. The Southern Railway has been assessed $25,000 by a jury because two unknown men hugged Mrs. Sunlie Franklin while she was a passenger on one of its trains.

Newton Marks, n veteran circus and theatrical man nt El Paso, Texas, for his health, was found dead and badly mangled on the Rock Island railroad tracks near that city. William.MneQueen, an anarchist who returned from England to serve out n live years' sentence for inciting the silk riots nt Paterson, N. J., two yenrs ago, snrrondered himself to the sheriff at Paterson.

The Idaho State board of pardons commuted the sentence of George Levy to life imprisonment. He was to have been hnnged for the murder of Davis Levy in October, 1901. The application for clemency indicated that another man may have committed the deed. Tiie torpedo-boat Lawrence was damaged at Memphisidnrhe’ ropes of the Robert E. Ixie became tangled in the propeller of the Lawrence, turning one of the engines half way over and tearing away the after guard rail, sounding rail, steps and after flagstaff of the Lawrenca.