Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 April 1902 — Short News Notes. [ARTICLE]

Short News Notes.

J. T. Fitzpatrick, cx-police inspector Chicago, is dead. Four men were killed with tweuty-foiir hours by trains in Baltimore. Highwaymen are making hay in St. Louis. Seven hold-ups in .pue night recently. The revolver Czolgoxz used in killing President McKinley is now in |>ossessiou of the Buffalo, N. Y., historical society. John Coekwood. a negro barber of Oklahoma City, O, T., was assaulted ou it way home and shot in tbe neck and jaw by an unknown assailant. At a depth of 780 feet gas was struck in the fourth well sunk at Blackwell, O. T. There is greatly Increase! pressure over that in the other wells. During February 421 cases of smallpox were reported to the Kansas State Board of Health, but there was not a aihgie death from the disease recorded.