Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1902 — WEEK’S NEWS RECORD [ARTICLE]

WEEK’S NEWS RECORD

White House conference at 2:20 a. ni. Thursday, between President Roosevcll and J. P. Morgan’s representative!: brought final settlement of strike; Bishop John L. Spalding, Peoria, 111., was made sixth arbitrator, to represent miners’ sid< and his appointment conceded by operators. 4 Lynching of Earl Whitney and Claude O'Brien, confessed murderers of A. B. Chinn, the aged merchant, was hardy averted at Lexington, Ky., by the prompt action of County Judge Bullock, who ordered the prisoners taken secretly from the jail and spirited away by train tc Louisville. - Lightning tore through the roof of » negro church in Beaumont, Tex., while t funeral was in progress and killed out man and injured five others. The steeple was demolished, and in the panic that ensued the mourners, who were at the bier of the dead man, deserted the corpse leaving it to the elements. A report has been received from tlit frontier that in the vicinity of Dubnitzs 600 women and children have fled iuU Bulgaria to escape Turkish Troops. The} report the destruction of the Christine villages of Stainer, Drcnovo, Serbhtovc nml l'irine, and that the Village of Oran ovo has been burned and its inhabitant* massacred. Threats of lynching against William Lawrence, a negro, were prevented from Ixdng carried out at Pueblo, Colo., by r riot call to the police, who responded ant secretly placed their prisoner in jail Lawrence bad shot and killed Henry Goldstein, a hurtender, because the luttei —had refused to give him 15 cents whei demanded, The American Galloway Cattle Breed ers’ Association lias on exhibition in it* offices in the Kansas City Live Stock Ex change a handsome coat made by a fur rier from the skin of an American Gallo way. It was the intention of the association to present the coat to President Roosevelt on his intended visit to Kansu* City this fall. M. Murname, bookkeeper for a Chiengi railway contractor, died suddenly of hem orrhuge soon after witnessing his lira' null light in Juarez. Mexico. Miinuum It'came greatly excited at the bloody spectacle, in which two horses were dis emboweled and gored to death, and tin excitement caused hemorrhage and lib consequent death. Friends of Commander Peary are mx ions over his condition. Ever since Li* return from the arctic he has sutfered intensely from frost-bitten feet. Peary arrived in Philadelphia with Mrs. Peary and was taken at once to Dr. W. \Y Keen’s private hospital. It is said ;hat one of the great toes and two of the .-mini ones were amputated. The War Department lias promulgated u general order reducing the strength ml tlie army to 59,000 men, or the minimum prescrib'd by law. This reduction i* made by direction of the President, win considers it no longer necessary, in view of the peaceful situation in the Philip pines, to maintain the present strength which is about 05,000. Several thousand lives were lost in tin typhoon and tidal waves which recently swept northern Japan, according to ad vices received by the steamer Glenogle. The breakwater off Yokohama was swept away, liners were driven ashore, the .lap anese battleship Shikishinn stranded at Yosukuakn, temples, public buildings, bouses, etc., were destroyed and tlieii occupants drowned. The Minnesota Supreme Court ha held to he constitutional that portion o. the primary election law which prohibit* the placing on the official ballot at the" general election the name of a candidate who lias submitted himself to popular suffrage at the primary and l**en defeated. The ease came from Scott County, where a defeated candidate for coadjutor Med a petition containing the necessary percentage of electors and demanded that his name go on the official ballot. His contention was that the inhibition con tamed in the primary law was a denial of his constitutional rights.