Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1906 — All Around the Globe. [ARTICLE]

All Around the Globe.

“Hereafter automobile parts will be carried by railroads from Chicago to San Francisco for $3 per 16U pounds instead of $6 as formerly. A large cat killed the 3-months old girl baby of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Devlin of Los Angeles by lying on the baby’s head and suffocating it. Jacob Riis has canceled his lecture engagements for three months owing to illness. He is suffering from heart trouble at Richmond Hill, L. I. * Col. S. W. Stocking, aged 70 years, a member of the board of examiners in chief of the United States patent office, died of cancer of the throat. Frank Benint of Minneapolis is under arrest |*ending an inquest on the death of Mrs. Bernat, who, it is alleged, died as the result of the man’s violence. E. 11. “Harriman nnd others have acquired vast coal rights near Durango, Colo. The purchase is taken to mean Harriman’s entrance into Pueblo. J. T. Adams of the Adams Brothers Bridge Company at Findlay, Ohio, pleaded guilty te violating the Valentine antitrust law and was fined SSOO and costs. Joseph M- Hastings, the Pittsburg contractor driven to the wall by the failure of the Enterprise National bank of Allegheny, died in a sanitarium at Summit, N. J. Mrs. M. C. Hulse, a widow, formerly of Circleville, Ohio, fell from the fourth floor window of a hotel at Ithaca, N. and was killed. Her son is a student at Yale. Clara West, 12 years old, and her younger sister were burned to death at their home at Enterprise, Miss., their clothing being set afire by sparks from a