Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 April 1902 — SUMMARY OF NEWS. [ARTICLE]

SUMMARY OF NEWS.

President Francis I. Gowan of the Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf Kailroad, announced that a majority of the stock of that road had been sold, to Hpeyer At Co., New York brokers, who are supposed to be acting for the Kock Island road. Blanche Walsh, who was presenting “Janice ..Meredith” at the opera house in Seattle, Wash., fell from a rickety rear entrance of the theater into Puget Sound and was so badly crippled and shocked by the icy bath that she was incapacitated sot; several days. Miss Maud De Witt Talmage, daughter of Kev. T. De Witt Talmage, and Clarence Frederick Wy< koff of Ithaca. N. Y.. were married at the residence of the bride's parents in Washington. Rev. Frank De Witt Talmage of Chicago, brother of the bride, officiated. A remarkable and difficult surgical operation has, been performed on Mrs. Frank C. Mohan of New York. Eight inches of I’ter backbone was taken out to permit the removal of a tumor that pressed,upon the spinal cord. It is expected that she will recover entirely. Enrico Malatesta, the Italian anarchist, has been sentenced by a Roman court of justice to five months’ imprisonment for contumacy on account of certain articles applauding the murder of President McKinley which were written for and published in an anarchist newspaper. Lewis J. Thumbs, charged with the murder of Carrie Larson mi the steamer Peerless on the night saved from conviction in Judge Ball's court in Chicago by two brothers, who held out against the arguments of ten other jurors over eighteen hours. Unable to reach a verdict, the jury was discharged. The Ohio House passed the congressional redistricting bill after amending it by taking Fairfield County, which has a normal Democratic plurality of about 1.500, from the Twelfth District and (idling it to the Eleventh, Gen. Grosvenor's. This leaves Franklin County, which is nominally Republican by a small majority, to constitute the Twelfth District. No other districts were changed. Daniel Kramer, aged 43, a St. Louis laborer, has been robbed three times during two weeks. He determined to catch the thief, and rigged up a trap. He placed a revolver ill the closet in his room where he kept his clothing and valuables, arranged so that the opening of the door would discharge the weapon. The other afternoon Kramer absent-mindedly opened the- closet door and was shot through the left breast. The i>ostoftice at Hudson, Pa., was broken into the other morning by four masked men and ?11>7 in stamps and $65 in money was taken. While the thieves were at work Father Spotauski of St. Joseph's Catholic Church passed and was held up until the burglary was completed. The burglars compelled Father Spotanski to witness the jobbery. They threatened to shoot if he gave the alarm until they were out of sight, and when he siiecmsled in arousing the people the burglars had too good a start to be captured. They were all masked, but the prleat thinks he knows one. of them.