Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1905 — Interesting News Items. [ARTICLE]

Interesting News Items.

Marjorie M. Post, who was given $2,000,000 by her fattier, C. \V. Post of Battle Creek, Mich., was married in New York to Edward B. Close. Three hundred Americans celebrated Thanksgiving day at n banquet at the Kaiserhof in Berlin. H. Percivul Dodge, secretary of the American embassy, presided. Enormous petitions asking for the admission of New Mexico and Arizona to statehood will be submitted to Congress by the New Mexico Joint Statehood League. Evidences of wholesale perjury in connection with land fraud cases, involving Nebraska cattle owners, are reported at Omaha to have bceu unearthed by government agents.