Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 March 1902 — BREVITIES. [ARTICLE]

BREVITIES.

A. E. Batson was arrested at Spickard, Mo., charged with having murdered five members of the Earl family near Welch, La. The steamer Neckar, with 1,000 passengers hound for New York, after a narrow escape in nine days’ fight with gales, reached Halifax disabled. Dudley Johnson, white, and Benjamin Foster, colored, were hanged tit Asheville, N. C., for burglary, which is a capital offense in that State. President Roosevelt, acting upon the recommendation of Attorney General Knox, has dismissed Arthur B. Noyes, judge for the second district of Alaska, For the loss of both feet in being run over by a street car a jury sitting in the New York Supreme Court awarded 7-year-old Vincent Muessmau $150,000 damages. While her companion. Jack Kirk, was asleep, Lulu Watts, a variety actress of Nome, Alaska, attacked him iu a fit of jealousy and severed his head from nis body with a razor.

Attorney Ernest Wedekind of Chicago, dreading the disgrace of trial for alleged misappropriation of a client's money intrusted to him, killed himself while iu custody of ollieers. Charles Homer Anderson, aged 14. and Henry A. Bennie, aged 10, committed suicide in Chicago, the former because of grief for dead mother, the latter ou account of a love affair. Lieut. Gov. Tillman of South Carolina, nephew of the Senator, has asked President Itoosevelt to withdraw acceptance of invitation to take part in a sword presentation in that State. Several persons out walking found the remains of Lena May Prondergast, aged 17, who had been missing from ltonham. Texas, since Dec. 23. The girl was murdered and her body concealed iu a hollow stump. The Comptroller of the Currency has appointed National Bank Examiner J. W. Delay receiver of the First National Bank of Belmont, Ohio, upon telegraphic advice from the directors of the bank that they had closed the doors. George, John and Martin Stakumus, trot her* and miners, have been imprisoned by a cave-in iu the Cameron colliery at Bhamokin, Pa. For several hours their rapping upon the side of the breast could be heard, but then it ceased. One of the large refining tanks in A. Miller & Sou's oil refinery, Allegheny, Pa., exploded, the oil catching fire. No person, so far at known, was injured, us all the workmen are thought to have ' been away from the plant for dinner. John B. Sherman, founder and former president of the Chicago Union Stock Yards and Transit Company, died after a brief illness at his borne in Hint city. The Germnn Emperor's new schooneryacht, Meteor, was launched Tuesday from Shooter’s Island, New York. The boat was christened by Miss Alice Roosevelt. By a premature explosion of dynamite ou the grading of the Colorado Railroad at Babtown, fifteen miles south of Jeffersou City, Mo., Archibald Johnson of Chicago and C. K. Andrews of Marshall* gown, lowa, were killed.