Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1902 — EVENTS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

EVENTS OF THE WEEK

Disclosures of three alleged plots to assassinate President Roosevelt since he has taken office were made in Hoboken, N. J., by Mrs. Lena Dexheimer, a parishioner of the First Methodist Episcopal Church, who says she is a converted anarchist. It is reported at San Jose, Costa Rica, that the Colombian cruiser Bogota, commanded by Captain Mnrinaduke and manned by American sailors, has been defeated in an engagement with insurgent gunboats and that most of its crew was lost. Differences have arisen between the State Department at Washington and ti»« Colombian government which may delay an agreement on the terms on it) isthmian canal treaty beyond the time in which it had been expected to conclude one. Fire threatened the destruction of East Helena, Mont. Only the heroic work of the entire population, with the assistance of a steamer sent from Helena, saved the town. Four buildings, including two saloons, a barber shop and a residence, were burned. Thousands of bushels of apples arc rotting on the ground in Connecticut. 11 barrels could be procured, the farmers say. they might ship large quantities to England and even to the Philippines, but they cannot procure them. Farm laborers also are scarce. Consul General John K. (rowdy had a narrow escape from death when u trolley cur collided with his carriage at ltompont, in the Champs Elysees, Paris'. Mr. Oowdy was thrown out and severely bruised, but despite (his be seized Hie horses, preventing a runaway. John Truck was put to death in electric chair at the State prison nt Auburn. N. Y„ for (lie murder of Frank W. Miller at Virgil. March id, I Sill*. Truck met his fate calmly and five minutes after the witnesses had assembled in the death chamber he was pronounced dead. The Colorado Humane Society received reports that live stock is perishing In various localities ill that State, where the drouth of last summer ieft the ranges bnre of grass. At Black Mountain, where there has been a heavy snowfall, cattle are reported to be dying by hundreds. The steamer Robert Wallace, loaded with ere from Superior. Wis.. for Cleveland, sunk in the lake thirteen miles rlf Two Harbors, Minn., the result of breaking her stern pipe. Captain Nicholson and crew escaped to the schooner Ashland. which the steamer was towing. The steamer sunk in IKK) feet of water and will bo a total loss. Leavenworth. Kan., policemen are vainly trying to fathom the mystery attaching to Mrs. Albert Sechrest, who. according to a note found, has drowned herself and her baby in the Missouri river. She was the State's principal witness in tin* case against Dr. Louis Zorn, who killed her husband in Kansas City, Mo., three months ago. Ronald F. Breunen, 22 years old, who rose in two years from the position of office boy to that of president of a Xcw York trust company which he organised, has been sentenced to Sing Sing for ten years, lie was charged with securing money under false pretenses by tiling false satisfaction records of mortgages on the property of persons whom he did lot even know. The officers of the American battleship lowa gave an elaborate banquet at Rio Janeiro in honor of President Rodriguez Alvez, who was inaugurated on Saturday. The dinner was attended by all the diplomats resident nt the capital, with all the members of the cabinet, the captains and principal officers of all warships in tin’ harbor and many prominent Brazilian officials.