Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1902 — BREVITIES [ARTICLE]

BREVITIES

Forty prisoners failed in bold attempt to escape from jail at St. Joseph, Mo., by dynamiting wall of building, Within forty-eight hours Toledo, Ohio, had eiglit drowning fatalities, due to the desire for relief from the heat. Robert K. Burns, a lineman from Chicago, was killed by ail electric - shock while running a wire at San Francisco. Mary S. Knowlton, daughter of former Attorney General Knowlton, was killed in a runaway accident at Arlington M a hk. Julius Lehmann, former member of the St. Louis house of delegates, eonvieted of perjury, has been scutbm-isl to ivro years in prison. Charles Roberts, nil Englishman, was badly beaten at Boston for desecrating an American flag and later lined $lO in the District Court. St. Lmiis and Eastern capitalists have organized to build a bridge over the Mississippi at St. Louis and a new depot in the heart of the city. Heavy rainfall caused extensive loss in many States. In lowa whole counties were under water am) hundreds of families abandoned their homes. Rev. Leon E. Bell, a Lowell. Mass, pastor aud a graduate of Northwestern University, has been elected president of Vashon College at Barton, Wash. At Wilmington, Ohio, lire caused $50,000 damage. The City Hall, Linton’s dry goods store. Stacey’s implement store ami several dwellings were destroyed. William A. Malian ami diaries IL Blaker, well-known farmers of Sweet Springs, W. Va., committed suicide by shooting at the same hour on a recent morning. A combination of all the independent window glass houses in the country will be effected in Cleveland, it is said the price of the product will be advanced 25 per cent. James S. McDonald, a real estate broker, was killed with an umbrella by an unknown man with whom he quarreled at Broadway and Forty-first street in New York. Samuel Boyd, aged 24, one of Admiral Dewey’s orderlies on the flagship Oiympia at the battle of Manila bay. was almost instantly killed at Magrudtr’s Station, Mil., by being struck by a train. The tents of the W. 11. Harris show, filled with about 500 people, blew down during a storm at Fhriehsville. Ohio. At least twenty tivi people were injured, but no fatalities are known to have occurred. It. I’fund. an electrical engineer, has arrived in San Francisco on his way to Alaska for the purpose of establishing a wireless telegraph system between Fort Gibbous on the Yukon river and life fort at Bates' Rapids, on the Tatiana river, a distance of 195 miles. Preyed Upon by worries resulting from his connection with several building and loan associations. Col. George I). Felton, a former city treasurer of Camden, N. J., assistant quartermaster general of the State militia, nnd a real estate operator, committed suicide by inhaling illuminating gas.