Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1902 — NEWS NUGGETS [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS

Prof. Luthardt, probably the most noted strictly orthodox theologian in tiermany, died at Leipsic. He was 80 years old. In a dispatch from Seoul, Corea, the corres|>ondent of the Paris Figaro says it is reported that the Emperor of Corea is dead. Henry Fox, ex-Councllman. was fatally injured in a runaway accident at Greenville, Ohio, his horse running into a store show window. George Gantz, was hanged at Heading. Pa. Gantz's crime was the murder last October of Annie Etter, 15 years of age. Gantz was 21 years old, idle and shiftless. Jealousies betw<*en European powers prevent action on Hay's note, and Rollmania will not institute permanent reforms unless the nations unite in armed intervention. Thomas Faircloth and Theodore Smith, young white men of Bronson, Fla., have been convicted of the murder of Mr. and Airs. L. B. Lewis, and will be sentenced to be hanged. Judge George 11. Durand of Flint, who was stricken with paralysis three weeks ago and is slowly recovering, has withdrawn as the Democratic candidate for Governor of Michigan. 11. M. M. Richards, treasurer of the American Iron and Steel Manufacturing Company, was shot ami seriously wounded in a riot led by the striking employes of the company at Lebanon, Pa. The Columbus, Sandusky and Hocking Railway was sold by Master Commissioner J. Robinson nt Columbus. It was bid in by Paul B. Cravath of New York, who offered the upset price of S2.7S(M*M). W. J. Hahn, a leader of the bar, dropped dend in the court room at Minneupo* Ils, while examining a witness. Ho had served as Attorney General of Minnesota and was a member of the recent "Butte tax commission. Mrs. Lucien Anderson, a bookbinder, committed suicide in a Denver boarding bouse. Hhe left a letter in which she •aid: “Please do not make any great ado ■bout this. I am Just disappointed and tired of life, that is all.” A new $400,060 railroad bridge will be built across the Missouri river at St. Joseph by the St. Joseph and Grund Islam) Railroad Company. The bridge will 1.0 used Jointly by the Grand Island and Rock Island. This agreement ends a long dispute. Although the death of Mary Gruner, who came to New York recently from Ralt Lak e (’ity, is shrouded in mystery the police profess to have evidence to •how' that she burst a blood vessel in a fit of emotion due to the receipt of news raying that a love affair had ended unhappily for her.