Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1907 — Interesting News Items. [ARTICLE]

Interesting News Items.

Estimates are made that Marshall end Henry Field will divide SI,O>XMJOQ,OOO when the estate of their grandfather is settled at the end of a trust periot of thirty-eight years. While the French gunnery school-atrip Couronne was at target practice near Toulon on Aug. 2 a terrific explosion blew off the breech block of <a hundredmillimeter gun, killing three and seriously wounding five persons. The exact cans* of the explosion ia n mystery, but will boltbe subject of rigid investigation.