Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 February 1902 — WEEK’S NEWS RECORD [ARTICLE]

WEEK’S NEWS RECORD

Clare Hnnpum has been found dead hanging in his room at Pvddie Institute, at Hightstown, N. J. While the tragedy has every appearance of ( suicide, the general belief in the school is that the boy lost his life in an attempt to startle his roommate by a “make-believe” suicide. Charles William Pearson, professor of English literature at Northwestern University. Evanston, 111., for thirty years, has tendered his resignation, and the trustees of that institution have accepted it. He has also taken a letter from the Evanston M. E. Church, of which he was a member. Militimnen on guard nt the Paterson, N. J., fire ruins heard groans in a house just within the fire lines. They ran upstairs and found Charles Handley, a telegraph lineman, with his head crushed. He revived sufficiently to say two women had attacked him and then relapsed into u nconsciou sness. Proof that the British sloop-of-wir Condor was wrecked at sea and that the 130 officers and men of the crew perished was brought to Victoria. B. C„ by the ship Egeria. The Egeria, which went out to seek the Condor, found wreckage of the vessel near Clayoqnet, on the west coast of Victoria Island. Although he had been convicted of stealing S2,(MM), sentence has been suspended on Albert J. Ayres, 19 years old, of Brooklyn. Ayres was a bank messenger employed by the Union National Bank of Brooklyn. Judge Crane said he and the president of the bank had looked into the case and hud concluded Ayres’ downfall was due to evil companions. Die Information (a Vienna newspaper) reports that two bands of brigands are at war for the possession of Miss Stone, one being that which originally captured her, the other desiring to seize her now so as to claim the ransom. In an engagement between the two bands on the border between Turkey and Bulgaria the total casualties were twenty killed and twenty wounded. An early fire at Ilarmarviile, Pa., on ■the West Pennsylvania Railroad, destroyed 000 worth of property and for a time threatened the entire place. The fire started in the plant of the Duquesne Distributing Company, and before it was controlled consumed the wain structure, a four-story brick building, the First Methodist Episcopal Church, postoffice, Thompson's general store and several small buildings.