Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1902 — WEEK’S NEWS RECORD [ARTICLE]

WEEK’S NEWS RECORD

Euclid Madden and Jnmos T. Kelley, motorman and conductor of the electric car which collided with President Roosevelt's carriage Sept. 3, waived examination on a charge of manslaughter at Pittsfield, Mass., and were held to the grand jury. Signor Marconi, in Nova Scotia, has received a brief dispatch from his station lit Poldhu, Cornwall, which was entirely distinct. This is the first full message which lias ever been received, the previous work having been devoted to the transmission of a signal, the letter "S." The threatened strike of the union butchers, meat cutters, pudding makers and the like of Pittsburg and Allegheny is on. The men have quit work. They number about 400. In addition about 200 non-union men quit their places. Thus fifteen large local meat plants were tied tip, it is claimed by the strikers. A troop of 1,200 Fouchardists which entered Port nu Prince, llnyti, returning from the campaign against (Jen. Firtnin, had n conflict with the civil authorities. There was heavy firing throughout the night. Keren persons were killed and many were wounded. The situation is grave, threatening a new civil war. Robbers wrecked the vault of the Hank of Richards, Mo., with dynamite and stole $1,500. The front of the building was blown out by the explosion. A number of citizens rushed to tile scene, and otic of the robbers fired three shots into the crowd. The citizens were unarmed. and the robbers escaped without being pursued. The stage coach which runs lie tween Ouray, Polo., and Red Mountain met with an accident on one of the steepest grades of tlie road, and together with the fourteen passengers fell down the mountainside 300 feet. One of the horses was killed, and the coach rolled over several times in its descent. All the passengers were hurt, Rev. William <l. Rake, pastor -if the German Baptist Phurch in Omaha, and Miss Augusta Rush, a young woman in that neighborhood, were found dead in n vestibule in the rear of the church auditorium. The two bodies were locked ill embrace, and the gas was turned on, but not burning. Rev. Mr. Rabe was (15 years old and a prominent minister. Robert J. Trover, President of the First State Rank of Leoti, Ivan., van accidentally shot and killed at a supper given by the Order of Royal Neighbors, lie lifted an overcoat belonging to a deputy sheriff from a chair, when a 44caliber revolver in one of the pockets was discharged. The ball entered tlie right lung and the wound caused dentil in less than an hour. Mr. Travel* was wealthy and prominent in business and social life. lie was born at Clinton, lowa, and was 40 years old.