Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1906 — Telegraphic Brevities. [ARTICLE]

Telegraphic Brevities.

The Ohio House has passed the Werti bill abolishing prison contract labor in Ohio. Charles Hendrickson of Fairhaven, N. J., was drowned while iceboating on the Navesink river. Dean Charles D. Williams was consecrated at Cleveland as Protestant Episcopal bishop of Michigan. The authorities are investigating naturalisation frauds in Youngstown, Ohio, Pittsburg and Cleveland. The South Carolina House passed the bill to abolish the State dispensary. The measure had passed the Senate. Fifty-five natives were drowned in Johannesburg, Transvaal, owing to the flooding of South Rose, a deep gold mine. The Arctic and Explorers’ Clubs gave a farewell dinner in New York to Prof. Otto Nordenskjold, the antarctic explorer. The five-story building occupied by Glass, Hal) & Co., wholesale dry goods, in Philadelphia, Pa., burned. Loes $75,000. A live rooster in a cage was sent through the pneumatic mail jubes in Philadelphia as a test. The bird came out alive and well, having made a mile in three minutes. Several. Russian naval officers have been ordered to the Orient for asking an open trial for Lieut. Schmidt, who was in command of the cruiser Otchakoff when the crew mutinied. Edward Dunlap, a noted burglar, who died recently in Philadelphia, willed his brain to science and left the manuscript of a book defending his crimes in comparison with those of high finagge, .