Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1907 — Briet News Items. [ARTICLE]

Briet News Items.

Raisuli’s stronghold. Zinat, was destroyed by fire by Morocco troops and the bandit chief fled to the mountains. Pitman Pulsifer in the navy year book iccords the fa<jt that armor plate has been reduced from $604 a ton in 1887 to $345 in 1005. • ,1. _ President Harris of the Terry Peek. S. D.. Miners’ Union, distributed the first lelief money to members who are out for an eight-hour day. The Staten Island Anti-Nuisance League had four Baltimore'and Ohio engineers arrested for blowing whistles on switching engines. Advices received at Victoria, B. C.. state that forty Jajianese vessels and 44)0 poachers arc missing on the Kamchatkan peninsula since 1904. The London Mail says the British niivy will be reduced after the February maneuvers. Three battleships w<Tl he taken from the channel fleet. Officers of several vessels Altering the port of Seattle have resigned because the companieg,. have refused to grant'them overtimq at 00 cents an hour. J, Ogden Armour is said to be considering plans for a model city for the workmen who will be employed in the new Armour plant at Minneapolis. John Burns died at the St. Paul, Minn., hospital from injuries received by falling down the stairs leading to the Salvation Army hall on East Seventh street. Lieut. Swanson and, Traveling Manager Hall are held by the police awaiting the outcome •( th* coroner’s investigation.