Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1902 — BREVITIES. [ARTICLE]

BREVITIES.

A northwest gale swept Lake Miehi Ban, wreekiUK two yacht* and eausing big waterspout near St. Joseph, Mich. Brakeman Robert Foley of Portsmouth was killed and four other persons injured in a freight wreek on the Norfolk and Western ltailroad near Peebles, Ohio. Daniel Sweeney, a watchman employed by the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Company at the Bliss colliery in Hanover township, l’a., was found dead in a field. Harry Tracy, the bandit, shot himself and'died almost instantly in a wheat field near Fellowes, Wash, lie was surrounded by a posse whieh had been successfully held ut hay for hours. The two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the settlement of York, Me., wne observed by a floral and historical parade, followed by commemorative exercises, There were 20,000 visitors in town. Luther Wallen, son of Hoy. ,1. B. Wallen, was found dead in n highway neat Hneedville, Tonn. He had been shot near the heart. The cause of the killing is tot known and no arrests have been made. Mrs. Anna V. L. Pierson, widow of Dr, William Hugh Pierson, said to he the inv* utor of celluloid, committed suicide hy hanging herself at her home in Glen Bidge, N. J,, owing to continued ill health. The New York Times has acquired tin triangle bounded hy Broadway. West 42d street and 7th avenue, and will build a large modern steel construction building, primarily for its own use, to he rcud.v for occupancy early in 1004. FHre of incendiary origin broke out at We*rt Alexandria, Ohio, and burned six business houses nud two residences. The Arcade Hotel guests were driven from rooms before they had time to secure their personal effects. Heroic work saved the hotel, laiss £1,1.000, The Southwestern Slate Manufacturing Company of Hlatingttm. Ark., has just filed articles of incorporation increasing Its capital stock to $10,000.00'). The stockholders are principally Pastern capitalists. The company has slate quarries at Hlatington. and a railroad is to he built «t once from there to llot Springs.