Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1902 — BREVITIES. [ARTICLE]

BREVITIES.

Train killed Samuel F. Newman, Norwulk, Ohio. The strike at the coal mines of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Ituilroud Company has been settled and 4,500 men will return to work at once. Edward T. Krnntz, aged 05 years, was found dead in the lielfry of the Trinity Methodist Church in Washington. He was hanging by a rope fastened to n ladder. The coroner decided it a ease es suicide. Hear Admiral Thomas O. Selfridge, Hr., U. S. N., retired, died at the McLean Asylum in Waverly, Mass. Hear Admiral Keliridge was probably the oldest living officer of thut rank in any navy of the world. John Barrett, formerly minister to Siam, who is well acquainted with the situation there, states thut King Chula longkom will visit the United Stutes next year if he receives favorable reports from the Crown I’rince. Heport of inquest in Pittsfield accident which resulted in death of Secret Service Agent Craig and injury to President Itoosevelt, fixed blame.on the conductor and motorman of the cnr which ran down the President’s carringe. The formal sale nnd transfer of Beauvoir, the home of Jefferson Davis, by Mis. Davis to the Hons of Confederate A derails was made at the opening session of the reunion of the Mississippi division, Hons of Confederate Veterans. Alexander C. Young, corporation counsel of Hudson County, was arrested in New York on a charge of kidnaping his child, preferred by his divorced wife, Mrs. Louise McAllister Young, n niece of Ward McAllister. Mrs. Young, who' was granted a divorce on Aug. 2N, was given the custody of their little daughter. United States Senator Knute Nelson helped pump n hand cnr five miles on the Duluth, Mesabn and Northern Hoad in order not to miss connection at Wolf Junction with a train for Two Harbors, where he waa scheduled to speak that Bight.