Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1907 — Sparks from the Wires. [ARTICLE]

Sparks from the Wires.

Fire, supposed to be incendiary, destroyed tbe business section of Barneeboro, Pa. The loss is estimated at $90,000. V Following allegations of corruption in the Kansas City, Mo., police department, an investigation having tbe approval of Gov. Folk probably will be started at once. Tbe submarine boat Lake, in ber official trial off Newport, showed a speed of B.G knots an hour in cruising trim under the power of ber motors and gasoline engines. A negro who attacked tbe 12-year-old daughter of a farmer of Marion county, South Carolina, was chased Into a swamp by a posae r and la supposed to have beta lynched.