Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 March 1902 — WEEK’S NEWS RECORD [ARTICLE]

WEEK’S NEWS RECORD

The Frisco's handsome new car, the Meteor, south bound, left the truck near Francis, I. T., and four passengers were seriously injured. A special party <f Frisco officials and newspaper men from St. Louis and Kansas City was on the train. „ Dr. Robert E. Cray of (larden City, Kan., is not legally responsible for the death of his patient. Miss Irma Brown. 'Che jury which tried him for murder in Judge Ball's court in'Chicago so decrees! when it brought in a verdict of acquittal. A bill appropriating SIOO,OOO for the erection of a monument at Buffalo in memory of President McKinley was passed by the New York State Senate. Coventor Odell sent tin emergency message to the legislature urging the immediate passage of the bill. The Postal Telegraph and Cable Company has won its suit against the Oregon Short Line Railroad Company for the right of way for a pole and wire line from Butte, Mont., to various points in Montana and through to Ogden, I'tali. Men will start to string the wires at once. Chauffeur Charles Piumet drove George J. Gould's big automobile at a wild pace along the Squankum road from Allaire to Lakewood, N. J., and caused two runaway accidents, in which three persons were injured. It is feared that one of the injured has sustained a fracture of the skull and may not live. Information has been received of a race riot twelve miles east of Jasper, Ala. One hundred and fifty shots are reported to have been exchanged. The trouble has been brewing for some time mid is the outgrowth of bitter racial feeling, which was accentuated by white men whipping two negroes on the charge of stealing. Great excitement has been caused at Lawton, Ok., by the unearthing by miners in the Wichita mountains of an cighty-five-pound nugget, 83 per cent pure gold. It was found in Devil's canyon, the scene of one of the ancient mines of the Spaniards, where many crucibles have been unearthed recently.