Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 58, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 March 1908 — BITS OF NEWS. [ARTICLE]

BITS OF NEWS.

Gen. Grant's autograph order to Gen. Thomas to advance ho Hood at Nashville In 1864 sold id New York for 375. The Blackwell’s island bridge, New York, was completed and Mayor McClellan was the first man to cross it. Katherine Tralnor, who killed Sam Roberts at Xenia, 111., has been tried and sentenced to 25 years In Joliet prison. _ “Honest Jim” Reilly, the village blacksmith of North Pelham, N. Y., who drove the toughs from the village and paid off Its debt, has been ed its president. Andrew Carnegie admits he and John D. Rockefeller wrangled over a golf game at Pocantlco Hills, N. Y„ some time ago. Insists he won and' says he hopes for another match. Business men of Mobile, Ala., appeared before the school board of that city and asked that a test be made of the state prohibition law, as the revenue from licenses goes Into the school fund. The Rev. Dr. J. Irwin Smith, organizer of the Presbyterian church In western Wisconsin and Minnesota and father of President William Smith of Coe college. Cedar Rapids, lowa, died at Cedar Rapids, aged 82. By a decision of Judge DeHaven in the federal district court, San Francisco, the United States Is now the owner of $12,600 worth of pearls.which were smuggled across the Mexican border in 1906 by M. J. Cornejo. Russell Shuart, ten years old, of Suffern, N. Y., received such severe burns on his. feet at the hands of another boy that be is in a critical condition. They wer.e playing Indian and Shuart was tied to a tree and a lire put under him.