Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1901 — Brief News Items. [ARTICLE]

Brief News Items.

Bob Saunders killed Pat McQuery near Checotah, I. T. Charles Clark, a young farmer, was killed by a train near St. Francis, Ark. Coal has been discovered on the farm of T. G. MgClure, near Aurora Springs, Mo. Germany has acquired a coaling station on the Farsan Island for the China transport service. Charges made in the British House of Commons that the government has been grossly defrauded by agents in purchasing mules and horses are to be investi.gated. Lulu Scott, who escaped from the Mis, sour! Industrial School, was recaptured at Chillicothe, Mo. She had blondined her hair and worked eight days in Geo. Pollard’s hotel. Young W. Smith, a farmer, living near Warren’s Bend, Texas, lost both his eyes and his right arm by the explosion of a stick of dynamite which he was about to throw into a creek to kill fish.