Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1906 — Sparks from the Wires. [ARTICLE]

Sparks from the Wires.

The general staff of the army has adopted the French straight and curb bits for the use of the cavalry. An order for the winding up of the affairs of the .Dominion Mills Company of Bracebridge, Ont., was issued at Toronto. Foreign ambassadors in Washington have abandoned their plan of sending an official wedding gift to Miss Alice Roosevelt. James Hazen Hyde has been sued by the Equitable Life Assurance Society for $72,000, representing alleged syndicate profits. The Grand Trunk Pacific railroad will ask the Canadian parliament for franchises for twenty-three branch lines in Canadian Pacific territory. A member of the Westchester Country Club, near New York, is being sought ns the abductor of the daughter of a titled Englishman from Honolulu. Mrs. W. M. Barton, wife of a Washington (D. C.) physiciaq, was attacked by a "slasher.” Her gown was badly cut, but she escaped injury. • Women of the Minerva Club, New York, have secured the indorsement of college presidents and are framing a law to make hazing in colleges a crime. Dr. Henry S. Conrad lof Johns Hopkins university says that the sundew, a plant growing in swamps, can see, feel and taste, but lacks the sense of hearing. In a street crowd at San Francisco William Wa)bridge, a laborer, shot and seriously wounded his wife, slightly injured two bystanders and killed himself. Father L. L. Conrady, who succeeded Father Damien, in charge of the Hawaiian colony, is completing plans in New York for establishing leper colonies In Chinn. The trustees of the Carnegie Softool ol Technology at Pittsburg have received a letter from Andrew Carnegie thanking them for naming the woman’s department after his mother. Justice Joseph M. Deuel,, who lost his libel suit against Norman Hapgood recently, declares tjje Town Topics salt has destroyed his usefulness nnd he will r* sign from the New York bench.