Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1902 — EVENTS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

EVENTS OF THE WEEK

Telegrams from Sedro, Wash., soya that a man confessing that he is one of Nora Fuller’s murderers has surrendered to the city marshal at that place. He says he is John Bennett, for whom the Fan Francisco police have been searching several months. John K. Messersmith, the Baltimore cotton broker, who has been on trial for five days on a charge of obtaining $25,000 by false pretenses from the Merchants’ National Bank, was convicted. Sentence was stt,spehded upon a motion for a new trial. The Vnion Pacific has discharged the remaining 500 men employed in its shops at Cheyenne, Wyo., making 650 in all. This includes thirty boilermakers and helpers who struck, Tile order discharging the men states that the shops are to be closed permanently. William Broun, a miner of Minden, Mo., afraid of being lynched for the murder of a fellow-worker, jumped into the 'Elk river near Lanagan arid was drowned. Brown had been arrested for the murder of Joseph Stager, whose dead body was found under a bridge. Henry Taylor, colored, was hanged at Pittsburg for the murder of Edward Sewall, also colored. and Thomas Croni mell, colored, was executed at Lebanon. Pa., for killing Jacob Schmidt, an engineer. (Jus Ayers was hanged at Holly Fprings, Miss., for wife murder. After three hours' deliberation, a cor mer's jury declared Orlando E. Miller, president of the St. Luke Society, and Henry Clark Dalls, general manager, responsible for the death of Alderman William E. Kent and others in the Woodruff Hotel tire of June 1) in Chicago. The others connected with the institution who ■were held pending the result of the coroner's investigation were discharged. Since the coronation of King Alfqnso the quarrels between him and the Dowager Queen Maria, his mother, have been no frequent and violent that they have become a veritable scandal. Her slightest effort to guide the monarch is answered in a tirade of stable boy p.ofanity. Recently in the presence of servants the young King informed his mother that he would expel her from the palace if she did not respect his wishes. Alfonso's manners' have been generally insufferable since his coronation. Mercur, fifty miles southwest of Salt Lake City, Utah. and the second largest mining town in the State, was almost wiped out of existence by fire. Not a business house is left, and scores of dwellings are in ashes. At least 1,000 people are without food and shelter. Frequent explosions of powder stored in the town addml to the terror. The loss is $909,000, with insurance of $350,000. Men nr is famous as n cyanide gold camp and as the home of the Mercur and Golden Gate . mines. John Hand, a retired grocer, was shot •nd killed nt Seward, Neb., by Alexander Lange, who afterward shot himself. The men had met in the street and quarreled. Lange accused Hand of carrying on a flirtation with Mrs. Lange. The former grocer made a reply that incensed Lange and then he startl'd to walk away, lie was shot in the head, dying instantly. Lange left his victim lying in the street, walked to his own barn and there fired two bullets into his brain. Physicians say he will die. Following is the standing of the clubs of the National Baseball League: W. L. * \V. L. Pittsburg ...39 12 Philadelphia. 21 .31 Brooklyn ...31 24 Cincinnati ...22 31 Chicago ....28 23 St. L0ui5....21 32 Boston 25 25 New Y0rk...20 32 The clubs of the American League stand as follows: W. L. W. L. Chicago ....32 1S Washington. 26 29 Boston .....29 2<> Baltimore ...25 29 Philndelpfda 2*l 21 Detroit 21 28 St. L0ui5....25 21 Cleveland ...23 32