Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1905 — Sparks from the Wires. [ARTICLE]

Sparks from the Wires.

Pittsburg poetnl authorities will try to trace n box of poisoned bonbons sent to the wife of an attorney in that city. 'The woman’s name is kept secret. The total loss of life in the anthracite coal mines of Lackawanna county, Pa., in 1904 was 137, against 121 in 1903, when the output was much larger. Judge Albertson of Seattle decided that no man should be mulcted in damages who breaks a promise to marry a woman be afterward finds is afflicted With tuberculosis.