Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1907 — Sparks from the Wires. [ARTICLE]

Sparks from the Wires.

Five leading coal and wood dealers of Danville, Va., were indicted for forming an unlawful combination. Secretary of War Taft was elected president of the American National Red Cross at its annual meeting in Washington. Committees of the National Alliance of Billposters and Billers will visit the circus managers and a_sk for new contracts with higher wages. The retail dry goods establishment of Burden, Smith & Co. at Macon, Ga., was burned with a loss of $225,000 and estimated insurance of $125,000. The dreaded San Jose scale has been discovered in several fruit orchards in Massachusetts. This pest does great damage to fruit trees and shrubbery. Julian Salvatore, 35 years old, a New York saloonkeeper, was shot and instantly killed in his home in an east aide tenement by an unknown assassin. Engineers on the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad have accepted a scale of wages submitted by the company and the dispute is ended. The increase in wages is from 15 t 6 35 cents a day. • George Miller and his wife, an aged couple in the service of Dr. F. X. StraessJey, 621 Washington street, Allegheny, Pa., were found in a room over the physician's stable, having been asphyxiated by natural gas which escaped from the stove while they were sleeping. The man in the Mattewan asylum in New York, known as Andrew J. White, who now says he is George A. Kimmel, the missing bank cashier of Arkansas City, Kan., has never l>een identified by the officials of the Farmers’ State bank of that place as Kimmel und they do not believe he is Kimmel.