Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1902 — EVENTS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

EVENTS OF THE WEEK

Citizens <*f Guthrie, O. T., at a mass meeting tendered Frank 11. Greer $30.000 to aid him in replacing tin* State capitol printing plant, totally destroyed by fire. Greer refused to accept the money as a donation, but said lie would take it in way of a loan. The Texas anti-trust acts of 1889. 1895 and 1899 have been declared unconstitutional by the court of civil appeals in forming the case of the State against the Waters Pierce Oil Company and the case of the State against the Shippers' Compress and Warehouse Company. Eleven men were drowned as the reresult of a collision near the Nab lightship between the English channel passenger steamer Alma and the British ship Cambrian Princess, from Peru for Antwerp. The latter ship sunk immediately, and eleven of her crew perished. Henry B. Endicott, president of the iJhicesterwhlre Shoe Manufacturing Company of Boston, has completed one of the largest purchases of hemlock sole leather in the history of the trade. The deal wait made with the United States Leather Company and the amount involved is about $1,500,000. A man who registered as Harry Huger, Paris, Hl., suddenly went crazy at the Baltimore hotel, Wichita, Kan., while playing a piano. People about the hostelry say that the cause of his insanity was due to pictures of Paderewski, who ■was soon to come there, and that Hager Imagined he was the great pianist. Lying cuddled up in an improvised incubator, which is nothing less than a common chip basket with the handle cut off, the smallest baby in the world is slowly making its way along the pathway of growth. This human mite is the offspring of Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Peck of Bridgeport, Conn. It weighs sixteen ounces. The Brannock bill to punish anarchy and assault upon the President or State officers was passed by the House of the Ohio Legislature. The bill provides that any one who kills a President of the United States or any officer in the line of succession shall be electrocuted and his laxly be cremated or disposed of in some secret way. Life imprisonment is provided for the assault upon these officers wifti intent to kill. The bill did not receive a dissenting vote.