Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 114, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1904 — News of Minor Note. [ARTICLE]

News of Minor Note.

In a quarrel over a polo race Sergt. Boyle shot and killed Private Allen of the Fort Robinson, Colo., cavalry troop. President Hyde of the Bath iron wqrks announced that the battleship Georgia would be launched Tuesday, Oct. 11. After shooting Mnddie McGill, his woman companion, twice in the head and wounding Claude Gardlnen, John Isaacs, a colored man, drank carbolic acid- and died in New York. In a deal involving more than ? 1,000,000 the Dupont Powder Company of Wilmington, Del., has taken the property of the Chattanooga Powder Company of Chattanooga. Erik Lars Didrik Edhehn, general manager of a London company, was killed instantly in Larchmont, N. Y., by a train. It la believed he committed suicide, but no motive is apparent. The steamer Longfellow of Wilmington, Del., bound from Philadelphia to Yarmouth, N. 8., with a load of dynamite, sank off shore opposite Highland Light, Mass. The crew was saved.