Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1906 — Sparks from the Wires. [ARTICLE]

Sparks from the Wires.

A severe earthquake in the Harpoot district ia_ eastern-Turkey was reported In a cablegram received by the American Board of Commissioners for- Foreign Missions in Boston. Many are said to have been made homeless and destitute and relief is asked. Manning C. Palmer was convicted of misappropriating the funds of the. failed American Exchange National Bank of Syracuse, N. Y., and sentenced to fire years in prison* The Importers* National Association closed its offices in New .York after an existence of tw<> years. The organisation was formed to protect the Yrade from uqjust customs exactions. . Martin Green of Worcester. Mass., who had charge of the Chicago Hirer tunnel plana, lias announced his engagement, to Mrs. Joseph Sampson.'formerly of Chicago and now of Wareham, Mass. * h