Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1905 — Interesting News Items. [ARTICLE]

Interesting News Items.

A passenger train on the P.. W. & B. railroad was wrecked near Northeast, Md. Three persons were injured. The steamer Spartan, bound from Providence for Philadelphia, ran aground on Block Island in a fog and is a complete wreck. 1 It is aaid that the President has decided to offer Edward Addicts a foreign berth so as to enable the Delaware Legislature to elect a United States Senator. A carriage occupied by the Empress of Germany struck a 6-year-old boy in Berlin and the Empress personally extended first aid to the injured and then summoned the court physician. The Common Pleas Court »t Columbus, Ohio, recognized the Jewish Sabbath a 4 within the meaning of the statute relating to Sunday observance. Henry H. Rogers of the Standard OH Company presented a high school building to Fair Haven, Mass., the town of his birth. This makes a total of $3,000,000 given to Fair Haven by Mr. Roger* Miss Rebecca Jones, who was sent to jail in Now York twenty years ago because she refused to answer the jadftrs questions in ths Gordon Hsmmersley big will contest, won by the present Lady Beresford, is dead.