Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1902 — News of Minor Note. [ARTICLE]

News of Minor Note.

May Irwin, home from England, says she has quit the stage. Fire in Pittsburg business district caused $300,000 loss. Explosion injured five firemen. George D. Midjlleton was electrocuted at Clinton prison. New York, for the murder of his wife in 1001. The steamship Roslin Castle sailed from Hamilton, Bermuda, for South Africa with the first party of returning Boers, numbering 350 persons, on board. The sloop Lovell Delle, owned and sailed by Captain Allen N. Calder, of Thunderbolt, Go., was capsized during a squall and Captain Cnlder’s father nud mother, wife aud iufaut daughter were drowned. The Servian cabinet, which resigned on July 24, hit’s ended the crisis which resulted from the resignation by consenting to remain in office. Yip Hay, the Alaska Chinese murderer, taken from the steamer Dolphin committed suicide in jail at Port Townsend, Wash., that night by strangling himself with a shoestring. O. W. Coffelt, charged with the assassination of Santa Fe Detective Montgomery, was transferred to the jail of Sedgwick County, Kan., by order of Judge Lawrence, because of threats made to rescue him.