Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1906 — News of Minor Note. [ARTICLE]

News of Minor Note.

Raw son F. Watkins haa been appointed assistant treasurer of th«. Denver and Rio Grande Road at Denver. Day Compton of Sidney, Ohio, was probably fatally Injured by the accidental discharge of hit revolver at lam Angeles, OaL The mildest season Chicago has experienced in ten years has produced the heaviest winter tourist travel In the history of transportation lines. John A Converse of Philadelphia has endowed a chair of homiletics and pastoral theology In the Omaha Theological seminary, a Prskbyterian school, with $60,t00. Augustus Saint Gaudens, the American sculptor, and Josef Israels, the Dutch painter, wers sleeted honorary foreign members by tbs Royal Academy in London. Judge T. H. Psyntsr was electsd United States Senator from Kentucky to succeed J, 0. 8. Blackburn by both houses of the State Legislature at KnakfchL