Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1905 — Sparks from the Wires. [ARTICLE]

Sparks from the Wires.

Philadelphia reformers have disclosed the fact that, of a bogus vote of 60,000 polled in that city in the interest of ring politicians more than one-third were dead men. William B. Gill, formerly a district superintendent of tho Western Union Telegraph Company, died at his home in Cheltenham, a auburb of Philadelphia. He was 59 years of age. Reports on oil production In the Texa* district during August show a decrease ns compared with July of mor* than 1,000,000 barrels. The figures for July were 4,585,500 and for August 3,503,500. Every field in th* district ha* shared In th* slump. J. W. Gleltsman of New York has applied to the court of chancery in Trenton, N. J., for the appointment of a receiver for the American Machin* Company of Erie, Ta. The National Firemen’s Association closed its annual session at Kansas City after re-electing the old board of officers, hoaded by President James D. McNeil of Fayetteville, N. C, Brig. Gen. William H. Carter was relieved from the command of the department of the Vl*ayas In the Philippines and assigned as head of th* department of th* lake* at Chicago.