Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 110, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 September 1904 — Brief News Items. [ARTICLE]

Brief News Items.

The Y. M. C. A. is taking step* to form branches in the I’anaina canal zone. The bodies of the four miners who were imprisoned in the Pine Hill colliery near PotUville, Pa., were recovered. A proposition to join the National Medical Association was voted down by the Missouri Valley Medical Society at Council Bluffs, lowa. George R. Beach, a lawyer of Jersey City, has been appointed receiver for the International Mercantile Agency of New York City. World’s fair officials claim to have discovered a loophole in the set of Congress appropriating $5,000,090 on condition that the fair bo closed Sundays. At a convention of the Christian Scientists in Omaah testimonials were given of the success In controlling frightened and unruly horses by science treatment. George Wilson and Walter Crismore became engaged in a quarrel in Oklahoma City, O. T., and Crismore struck Wilson on the chin with a beer bottle, knocking hhn down on the pavement with such force that Wilson’s skull was fractured.