Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 February 1902 — EVENTS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

EVENTS OF THE WEEK

Prof. William E. Hitter of the University of California has made the discovery that Santa Catalina Island the famous pleasure resort, is slowly sinking into the Pacific ocean. He estimates that the island is now 270 feet lower than it was formerly. Janies McAuliffe, the principal witness In the triul of Wardinan Glennon, whose testimony was thought to have been largely responsible for Glennon’s conviction and sentence to Sing Siug, was found dying on a street in New York, and never regained consciousness. Frank Kolar and John Hajny, two 18-year-old boys, have confessed to Capt. ■Campbell of the Warren avenue police station in Chicago that they were guilty of the murder of Horace Shrode, the young grocery clerk who was killed Jan. 20 while defending G. C. Burns' store. Henry C. McEldowney, president of the Union Trust Company, his wife and their three children were rescued from their burning home in Pittsburg by neighbors with ladders. Their handsome residence, into which they moved a few weeks ago, was destroyed. The loss is nearly $50,000. On a charge of counterfeiting the Birmingham, Ala., police have arrested Ernest Matthews, it 10-year-old boy. He and ten companions are alleged to have received instructions from an old man and established a small mint, where they manufactured spurious silver quarters from crude molds. - Charles G. Fargo has signed the deed conveying to the Elkhorn Railroad a piece of real estate in Dead wood, S. D., after spending three dnys in the Lawrence County jail for contempt of court. The contempt lay in his refusing to make the conveyance in compliance with an order of the court.

President Roosevelt hag made public his decision on appeal of Admiral Schley. He declined to reverse tV> verdict of the court of inquiry, declared fight off Santiago was a captains’ battle and that honor rests equally on commanders in the action, and pronounced flatly against continuation of the controversy. Hamilton Schuyler, postmaster at Bellevue, Ohio, has been missing for several days and the office is in charge of Postal Inspector Moore and the bondsmen of the missing postmaster, who is several thousand dollars short. Schuyler left a written confession saying that he had been speculating on the markets. Mr. and Mrs. John Glosser, an old couple, were found in their home in Fremont. Ohio, in a most pitiable condition. They bad been overcome by gas several days ago. After being prostrated their fires went out, and they had been lying cold and helpless. They were so badly frozen that the arms and legs of both must be amputated. Neither is expected to recover.

The United States Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis has decided that the sulride clause in a life insurance policy must be respected. The ruling was rendered by Judges Caldwell, Thayer and Sanborn, releasing the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York from paying to the widow of Edward S. Kelly $7 ,500. Kelly committed suicide at Colfax, lowa, Feb. 21, 1805. Eleven-year-old Michael Ferers of Chicago had a desire to see the fire department at work. To give himself entertainment he set fire to four buildings and kept the fire department busy for three or four hours. At the last fire he had the pleasure of seeing the firemen work as life-savers. William Dowling, 80 years old, was carried out of a burning house. This fire led to the arrest of young Ferers, and Capt. Schuettler says he confessed to setting fire to four structures for the fun of the thing.