Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 February 1908 — SPARKS FROM THE WIRES. [ARTICLE]

SPARKS FROM THE WIRES.

Fire in the business district of Big* Stone Gap, Va.. did $125,000 damage. Aftijfr a struggle of five hours against intense cold and a sea, the life savers of Nantucket, Mass., rescued the crew Of the brigantine Fredericks Scheff, wrecked on Coatue Beach. Henry A. Alexander, whose Wife was Mrs. Kinsley Magoun, daughter of the lute Gen. Joseph Torrence, t hicago, was hurt while driving near Toulon, France. Mrs. Alexander eloped a few days ago with William Itlakiston, a solicitor of London, England. Morris K. Jesupof Xew York by his wiil licqucathod $l.0(»0,()00 .to the American Museum of Natural History. Judge Dallas, in the United States Appellate Court at Philadelphia I'irm'llllt the charge of rebating on wliich the Camden iron works was convicted and fiued $3,000 in September, 1906. Alfred W. Dennett, “Angel” Dennett, who amassed a fortune by a chain of lunchrooms all over the country and then lost it in gold mines, died in poverty at Stockton, Cal.. In his restaurants scripture texts hung side by side with prices of food and coffee.