Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 February 1902 — SUMMARY OF NEWS. [ARTICLE]

SUMMARY OF NEWS.

At Slippery Bock, Pa., a dispute arose •ver the payment of a bill for pies.an 1 In the fight that followed Jonathan Bneathen struck Ernest Morrow over the head with a potato masher, crushing his skull. Sneathen claims the killiug was iu •elf-defense. Dr. Demetreo Henry Moenck, Jr., a young dentist, the son of the German Consul General at Havana, is in jail in Philadelphia, charged with grand larceny. He is alleged to have stolen jewels worth S6OO from the store of J. E. Caldwell & Co. A tract of timber land containing 500,000 acres and situated in the State of Chihuahua, Mexico, has been sold to the Development Company of America by 11. C. Smith of San Francisco and J. It. Davis of Wisconsin. One million dollars in gold was paid for the land. In a message to the Minnesota Legislature, in special session, Gov. Van Sant outlined his plans for fight against the Great Northern Railroad consolidation, expressed belief that the present State laws are adequate and asked appropriation with which to carry on litigation. Mrs. Madeline Back, a 16-year-old bride, jumped into Beaver Creek, Kentucky, and was drowned. Her companion. Miss Barvella Patrick, attempted to commit suicide in a similar way. She was swept by the swift current to a bunch of (Jriftwood, from which she was rescued. The lockout in the four large mills of the American Woolen Company in Olneyville. It. 1., took effect to-day to iuw>t the action of about 150 weaver* who were endeavoring to precipitate a general •trike against the double-loom system. More than 6,500 operatives in all departments are idle. Roy Gilbert was arrested at Sparta, Tenn., because he shot and fatally wounded Benjamin Ramsay, a railroad detective. The shooting occurred at the scene of a recent serious railroad wreck caused by the throwing of a switch. Gilbert was suspected and Ramsay was working up the ease. N. D, Parker, a young man who lives at Ottawa, Kas., has been held to the federal grand jury on a charge of fraudulent use of the mails by obtaining goods under false pretenses. It is said he obtained $50,000 worth of goods of all descriptions Worn prominent firms in Chicago, St. Joseph and Kansas City. Charged with the theft of village funds C. E. Stein, prominent in social circles and recorder of the village of Chisholm, Minn., has been arrested in Chicago. The alleged absconder disappeared from Chisholm the morning of Jan. 25. Shortly after, it is alleged, it was discovered that $l6O of the village funds had disappeared. Four spectators were killed and one fatally injured by an explosion of gasoline at Boyertown, Pa., in the bakery of George Carver. Fire was discovered in the bakery and while the firemen were at work the explosion took place, blowing out the entire front of the structure. Many spectators were caught under the falling wall. The prompt actipn of the teachers of the Nebraska Avenue School in Toledo, Ohio, prevented loss of life among the pupils. Fire In one of the schoolrooms filled the building with smoke. The children were at first horror-stricken, but the principal gave the fire signals and the children, 250 in number, nt once fell into line and marched from the burning building in perfect order. Twelve live* were lost and a score of persons injured in an explosion that demolished two buildings and blew out the fronts Of a dozen other structures in Archer avenue, Chicago. Otto Trbstel's entire family of seven was wiped out. Street cars were lifted from the rails, gas mains blew up and sent steel and iron manhole covers crashing through space, flame mounted high at a dozen l>oints and panic reigned for almost an hour.