Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1905 — Short News Notes. [ARTICLE]

Short News Notes.

Fire destroyed the Children's Home of the Sisters of Mercy in Loretto, Pa. Sixty orphans in the building escaped unhurt. The steamer Henry D. James of the Rutland Transit-Company, plying between Ogdensburg, N. Y., and Chicago, burned at the former place. Loss $90,000. John Allen, who in July, 1903, shot and killed ids wife near Luther, Ok., was found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment. , Mrs. Katherine Clemmons Gould and her husband, Howard Gould, are defendants in a suit in the Supreme Court of New York brought by two dressmakers for $5,760 for gowns for Mrs. Gould. Fire at Columbia, Tenn., destroyed the feed ndll and elevator of the City Grain and Feed Company, with thirty cars of ear corn and about 50,000 bushels of shelled corn. Loss, $72,000, insurance •<2,000.

Frank L. Gibbs shot and fatally wounded his wife in Barnsville, Minn., and then killed himself. The couple, it is said, had been quarreling. The naval colliers Ajax and Brutus, now on the Asiatic station, have been ordered to the United States by way of the Mediterranean for the purpose of obtaining a fresh supply of coal for the vessels of the Asiatic fleet. Superintendent Frank Leach of the San Francisco mint made good the defalcation of former Cashier Walter M. Dimmick by turning over his Oakland home to the surety company which was on Dimmick’s bond for $25,000. The New York State railroad commission denied the application of the New York Canadian Pacific Railroad Company for permission to issue a first mortgage of $25,000,000 for the purpose of utilizing an old franchise to build another steam railroad from New York t« Albany and west and north to the Canadian line.