Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 December 1901 — THE NEWS IS BRIEF [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS IS BRIEF

The municipal council of Dublin has voted to bestow the freedom of the city of Dublin on John Redmond. An electric car at Oshkosh, Wls., struck a cutter containing Mrs. Fred Newton and two servants. The driver, Ed Corrigan, was fatally Injured and the others received severe bruises. Mgr. Kennedy, rector of the American college at Rome, has been appointed domestic prelate to the pope. Albert H. King, one of a trio convicted at Brookville, Ind., of bunco steering in “fixing” a foot race, evaded his sentence of two to fourteen years at Michigan City by taking morphine. The South Bend, Ind., department store has been closed by the sheriff. C. E. Hayward Iras been held without ball at Lincoln, Neb., charged with murdering former Representative John J. Gfillllan. The smaller retail shopkeepers of Paris intend to unite and fight the department stores. The odelsthing, the popular branch of the Norwegian parliament, has fixed punishment for the glorification of crimes against the social order. The Conaway Grocery company of Memphis has assigned. The lieutenant governor of Massachusetts and a party of twenty from that state have arrived at Chattanooga, Tenn., in two private cars and spent the day visiting historical points of interest. Lord Curzon, viceroy of India, has returned to Calcutta. Dr. E. R. Bowman of Elkhart and his coachman were killed by the Lake Shore fast mail train while driving across the tracks at Mishawaka, Ind. At Canyon City, Col., two daughters of Mrs. Janies E. Ewing, respectively G and 4 years of age, were burned to death in a fire that destroyed the house. Andrew Olson was drowned in Root river near Racine, Wls. Charles Thompson, residing nine miles north of Galena, Ills., wils instantly killed by the bursting of the flywheel of a wood-sawing machine. Andrew Carnegie has offered Canyon City, Col., SIO,OOO for a public library. Charles W. Gearheart, who lives near Walkerton, Ind., was caught iu tiie shafting of a Waveland saw mill and killed. ' A double-header express train on the Wabash railroad struck and killed Si» won Shuler of South Whitley, Ind.