Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1902 — Brief News Items. [ARTICLE]

Brief News Items.

The custom receipts for Cuba for the month of June amounted to $1,232,252. A wildcat was killed on the back porch of a residence in Hutchinson, Kan. The twenty-fourth anniversary of the coronation of the Pope was celebrated at the Vatican. Lightning northwest of Hutchinson, Kan., struck and killed thirteen cows belonging to J. W. Grittiu. Grant Williams has been arrested in Arkansas, charged with the murder at South McAlester, I. T., last October, of Edwnrd Nolan. Mrs. George Thomas tried to kill horself and baby by burning nt Fort Cobb, 0. T., but was prevented by an elder daughter. The Socialist-Labor party held its convention in Denver and nominated a State ticket heatled by T. A. Knight, of Pueblo, for Governor. The total of Germany’s exports to the United States for the year ended June 30 is $101,714,064, an increase of $1,827,050 over the amount for the year ended June 30, 1901. George Schallack, son of Dr. E. H. Schallack, a druggist, was drowned in Spring river, near Lowell, Kan. lie was in swimming and became exhausted. Schallacki was 25 years of age and un» married.