Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1902 — BREVITIES. [ARTICLE]

BREVITIES.

The lowa G. A. R. encampment at 1)< s M (tines adopted resolutions praising tlie work of the army iu the Philippines. The Wash burn-Crosby Company's mill “A” at Minneapolis will close because of alleged discrimination in railroad rates. The convention of electric light men at Cincinnati elected L. A. Ferguson of Chicago president nnd C. L. Edgar of Boston first vice-president. Because fifty-four high school hoys ut Omaha wore shirt waists Principal Waterhouse has ordered that no men not “properly clothed" be admitted to classes. Mrs. Letitin Eagle of Avalon. Pa., was arrested on n charge of killing Edna Varner, her 13-year-old adopted child. The girl died May 5 from a bullet wound in her heart. President Roosevelt, in address to Presbyterian General Assembly denounced citizens who stay at home aud criticise men who are reclaiming savage countries. Edwin Lawrence Godkin. editor emeritus of the New York Evening Post, died in Brixham. South Devonshire, England. Tin* immediate cause of ids death was a hemorrhage of the brain. Prof. James W. Wilson, son of Secretary Wilson of lowa, has accepted the chair of animal husbandry and u directorship in the South Dakota Agricultural College experiment station. In a mutiny nt the Starke County workhouse, Canton, Ohio, Guard George Jacobs was killed and Guard Iloincr Stone was dangerously shot. A prisoner named Gigante did the shooting. A construction train on the Choehiw, Oklahoma and Gulf Railway plunged through a high trestle twelve miles cast of Ardmore, I. T. Four men were kilh*d •snil twenty-one injured, seven fatally. George E. Nye, an expressman, received fatal injuries at the Northwestern block in MinueaiKilis, Minn. He was caught between the descending cage and the tb>or, badly crushed uud then fell down the shaft. The grand jury nt Pinevillc, Tenn., Indicted Lee Turner, charging him with being an accessory before the fact in the killing of Charles Cecil nnd John Doyle, who fell in tlie “quarter house” battle near Middles boro lust February, Rev. Dr. Milburu, the blind chaplain of the Senate, was struck by a runaway horse attached to a buggy us he was leaving the cnpltol in Washington. The large toe of one foot was cut off and several other toes badly Injured. Use of whisky nud tobacco when on duty nud non-payment of debts will hereafter cause the discharge of employes of the Northwestern Railroad. Judge Kohlsnat of Chicago lias decided that “Cyrano de Bergerac" Is a plagiarism of “Merchant Prince of Cornvillc” nnd granted 8. E. Gross an injunction against Actor Mnusticld. General Coal strike was brought nearer by of Michigan union to join anthracite districts in call for national convention. President Mitchell conditionally orders men protecting vast mine uronorties to strike June 2.