Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1902 — WEEK’S NEWS RECORD [ARTICLE]

WEEK’S NEWS RECORD

Mrs. H. B. Holman of New York announces that her daughter Josephine had asked William Marconi, the developer of wireless, telegraphy, to release her from her engagement to marry him, and that Mr. Marconi had complied with her request. , Four men were instantly killed on the log railroad of the Lackawanna Lumber Company nt Cross Fork, Pa. The men wvre loading logs on a car when a runaway train came down .the incline road and crashed into the e;ir upon which the men were. Bishop Herman of the Western Mongolian Mission has written that Fathers Van Merhaeghe and Boilgaerfs were massacred at Pingle, Province of Kansu, by a band of soldiers and Mohammedans, who escaped across the Yellow river to the Ordos country. 'llie extensive plant of the J. 11. Rumbaugh Brick Company at Pitcairn, Pa., burned. The twelve Urge drying houses were destroyed. As the plant had been closed for a week the origin of the fire is not known. A number of tramps have been sleeping about the place. Wiley Kilis, aged 50, was shot and killed and James Nichols, aged 20, was shot four times and dangerously wounded near Keytesville, Mo., in a fight. Their quarrel, it is stated, grew out of Ellis seeking to prevent the reconciliation of Nichols' half-sister and her husband. Three men are dead and four wounded, one fatally, as the result of a gathering of hostile clans to attend a murder trial at Belleville, Texas. The man fatally wounded is the one who was to be arraigned for taking human life, while two of the killed were relatives of his first victim. Extensive prairie fines are reported on the other side of the international boundary for a distance of ten and twenty miles west of Sweet Grass hills, Mont. Practically all the range between Milk river and Leth bridge has been swept by the flames. Hundreds of tons of hay have been destroyed*. As Maj. E. F. C. Klokke, formerly county clerk of Cook County, Illinois, was within half a block of his home on Figueroa street, Los Angeles, Cal., three highwaymen stopped his progress and at the point of a revolver ordered him to throw up his hands. The robbers obtained $23 and a gold watch. The grand jury at payton, Ohio, because of lack of evidence, ignored the case of Mrs. Mary Witwcr, who was charged with poisoning her sister. Mrs. Pugh. The case attracted considerable attention last fall because of the allegation that the deaths of a number of persons were caused by Mrs. Witwer. Captain Jones of the White Star Line steamer Boric, which arrived in New York from Liverpool, reports that he passed the Anchor Liner Astoria, in latitude 44:47 degrees north, longitude 53:47 degrees west, displaying the signal “Met with accident, floating obstruction.” The Astoria made other signals, which were not seen until too late to decipher. After two years of high living at their fine residence in Fruitvale, San Francisco, Ulysses <l. Bair and his pretty young wife have been placed in jail on the charge of counterfeiting. At their fcouse was found a complete counterfeiting outfit and spurious coin of the face value of S7O, said to be the best imitation of genuine coin ever seen there. It is charged that Bair and his wife have put in circulation thousands of counterfeit dollars in the last two years. Bair frequented the race tracks and admits having won thousands of good dollars through the medium of his bad ones.