Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 January 1902 — SUMMARY OF NEWS. [ARTICLE]

SUMMARY OF NEWS.

Two men were killed and a third seriously injured by the breaking of a scaffold in the Rialto elevator at One Hundred and Fourth street and the Calumet river, South Chicago. The men were iron workers and fell seventy-five feet when the scaffold broke. Oscar S. Straus of New York, formerly United States minister to Turkey, has been appointed ns a permanent member of the eommiyei* of arbitration at The Hague. The appointment is to fill the vacancy caused by the death of ex-Presi-dent Harrison. Miss Katy DoHiiglnie was fatally burned by the explosion of a can of kerosene oil which she dropped on a red hot stove at the Bhiin Hotel in Chndron, Neb. Her clothing caught tire and she ran into the hotel office, where several traveling men succeeded in putting out the flames. In the presence of the President and his cabinet, the entire Wisconsin delegation in Congress, (Jov. Durkin of Indiana, Senator Hanna and a .number of other friends, Henry C. Payne of Wisconsin was sworn in as Postmaster General in the cabinet room at the White House.

One of j"he most important developmenrs 'at Beaumont, Texas, is the discovery of a gusher which is not on iSpluille Top Heights. It is n hundred feet from the hill, 101) feet from the nearest well, and in a territory where two or three gassers have failed, so far, to develop into oil spouters. Mrs. Edmund Baclms, living on the fourth floor of an Film street apartment building in Cincinnati, was taken suddenly ill with heart trouble. l)r. G. 11. Thurman was called. She died just as the doctor entered the apartments, and the doctor died immediately on entering from exhaustion, caused by climbing the three flights of stairs. * As a result of the sitting of the grand jury at Lisbon, Ohio, I). S. Brookman, manager of the Wellsviile plant of the American Sheet Steel Company, was indicted on the charge of discharging Leonard Shaffer, an employe at the local mills. Shaffer was one of the men who went out on n strike last summer in order to join the Amalgamated Association. About' thirty years ago John Henry Burns left his home in Mexico, Mo., one evening to visit a neighbor. He never returned. It was thought he bad been murdered, but bis body could not be found. While taking the rock out of an aid well in the vicinity where he disappeared bones supposed to have been his have been unearthed. The man who is supposed to have killed him is now dead. Fifteen hundred quarts of nitroglycerin stored in two magazines owned by the •ft. Mary’s Torpedo Company and Empire Glycerin Company in a ravine two miles and one-half southeast of Marion, Iml., exploded, shaking the entire northeastern part of the State. Business blocks and dwelling houses shook and swayed as if rocked by nu earthquake. A yawning hole in the bottom of the ravine was all that was left to tell the story. It is thought that the explosion was caused by a gas jet in one of the magazines, which set fire to the buildings. So far ns known no one was injured. Telephone inquiries indicate that houses were shaken fifty miles away.