Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1902 — THE NEWS IN BRIEF [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS IN BRIEF

Lorenz Rohr, editor vof the EvansvflW Morning Demokrat, is dead at Evansville, Ind. While squirrel hunting Jake Miller, a young farmer who lived near Panama, Ind.. fell over a log, discharging both barrels of Ills gun and died of his Injuries. Joseph Schreckengost, a well-known lowa railroad man, was killed by a train in the yards at Ottumwa. David Charles Bell, a well-known author and educator, and a noted Shakespearean scholar, and a nephew of Alexander Graham Bell, is dead at the Bell homestead in Washington. William J. Brya» was abroad a train which was wrecked near Buena Vista Cal., and, while shaken up, escaped injury. Governor Nash honored a requisition from the governor of Pennsylvania for J. M. Evans of Youngstown, president of the Keystone Mining company, who is wanted in Pittsburg for obtaining money under false pretenses. Lafayette Hull wus accidentally shot and killed near Lancaster, 0., by Clarence Loomis. The Republicans of the Third congressional district of Connecticut nominated Frank B. Brandegee of New London to succeed the late Representative Russell. The plant of the Forest Hard Wood Manufacturing company at Little Rock, Ark., was partially destroyed by fire. At Fairplay, Col., the Jury in the case of Mrs. Uplade Vallie, charged with complicity In the murder of her husband, brought In a verdict of not guilty. E. R. Laingor, aged 60 years, a locomotive engineer of Chicago, dropped dead in a hotel at Shawnee, O. T.