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

Short News Notes.

.Five colleges and the library have signified their willingness to co-operate in founding a university in Brooklyn, N. Y. A provisional incorporation will be made. Scores of persons were driven to tho street in their night clothes by n fire at 297 Ryerson street, the fashionable part of Brooklyn. Four families were reached by firemen. The Southern Pacific has completed a 39-mile piece of track around the Halton sink to replace the forty miles of track which is flooded by the waters from the Colorado river. Midshipman John P. Miller of Lancaster, Ky., a cadet in the Annapolis Naval Academy, who was convicted of hazing and subsequently was pardoned by President Roosevelt, has been reinstated in the academy. Justice Ajnend in the New York Supreme Court has Issued a summons for Pope Pius X. in a suit for a construction of the will of Mary Phelan, who left him an annuity. A verdict of accidental death was returned at Jamaica, N. Y., in the coro- . ner’s inquest into the death of Mrs. Francis Burton Harrison, killed in an automobile accident Dec. 18. The three new cargo steamers under construction by the American Shipbuilding Company are for the Tonawanda Steel and Iron Company. Thsy will be V>e longest boats on the great lakes.