Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1902 — NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS.

Asa Messer shot and killed YVilliam Simpson during a quarrel near Barboursville, Ky. Daniel Farley, colored, was hanged at Memphis for the murder of his wife July 23. 1901. Fire at Baldwinsville, N. Y.. destroyed the principal business block, causing $50,000 loss. David Watt, a night watchman, wasburned to death, and 1. P. Miller fatally injured in a tire at Des Moines. Alonzo Searberry and Faris Castle were struck by lightning and instantly killed during a storm at Inez, Ky. Warren Smith killed Calvin Senter and was mortally wounded himself during a dispute over a woman near Mingo Mines, Ky. lowa Republicans in convention at Des Moines indorsed President Roosevelt for nomination in I!K>4 and named a State ticket. A third attempt to wreck the Illinois Central limited to New Orleans was made near Gilman, 111., when the engine ran into half a dozen ties. Judge Sidener of the first district police court in St. Louis has decided that a wife has the right to strike her husband when assailed with vile epithets. The United States government has been warned to watch for anarchists recently ordered out of Turkey ami supposed to be headed for this country. William Tierney, an Adirondack guide, who, with his companion, George Jackson, disappeared a month ago. has been found dead in Saranac lake. N. Y. Y\ hile Benjamin Saurwiue, living near Sitegerville, Pa., was digging postholes for a fence he discovered a partly decayed box filled with cash, both paper and coin, amounting to $3,400. One person was killed ami between forty ami fifty were injured, some fatallv, in a riot nt Shenandoah, Pa. Those hurt Include five officers. Forty or more of the rioters, nearly all foreigners, were wounded. A tire in Ignacio street. Havana. Cuba, resulted in a loss to the dry goods firm of Pn tides & Co. of $1(18.900, $90,000 of which was covered by insurance. Other dry goods firms, including Pella A Co., also lost heavily. In a fit of temporary insanity as a result of a severe attack of pneumonia, D. P. Dye, formerly a barber, shot and fatally wounded his 11-ycar-old son, Carroll, and then coinmitfed suicide at his home in Louisville. In a dispatch from St. Petersburg the correspondent of the London Daily Mail says the order for the wiflidiawal of Russian troops from Manchuria has been rescinded, ns that country is overrun with Chinese robber bands. Grant West was killed. Fred Michael sustained a concussion of the brain mid internal injuries ami John A. M< Donald, Fred Brooks and William Steffen were cut and bruised in a collision betw-cn n trolley car and a surrey in St. Louis. In ill-health. Charles Wright, aged <W, a veteran of the Civil War ami the author of several books on military history, committed suicide by taking carbolic acid at Hamilton. Ohio. Railroad net earnings for June show decrease for large systems, in spite of reduced operating expenses: Santa Fe reported $240,150 and Canadian Pacific $274,095 net loss. The weekly crop report found tempcralure generally favorable: corn making good growth and spring wheat promising; rain delaying winter wheat harvest and drought seriously hurting cotton.