Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1902 — WEEK’S NEWSRECORD [ARTICLE]

WEEK’S NEWSRECORD

The body of J. W. Puller, a wellknown business num of Portland. Ore., who disappeared front his residence about a month ago, was found in, the underbrush near the city by a parly of boys. Mr. Fuller had committed suicide with a revolver. Mrs. Henry Marling, who is believed to be demented ami is helM in the prison hospital at Phillipsburg, Mont., for the murder of Mrs. Patience Conn and James Conn, has made a confession. She says she killed Mrs. Conn with a linnihicr and then shot the man. "Death from dreams” will be the <ororn ; ' d < isioti tre I a tiv eto Tm>m hy Kel ley, a former Boston citizen, who teas retired in Illinois. He was 32 years old. lie wits found dead on his knees at a I'hil.uh Ipliia boarding house in the act .apparently of supplication. The physician who wan culled says fright in a drcam caused death. While walking down the main street of Tekamah. Neb., apparently in the best of health, Bev. llora.ee Morrill of t'hieago suddenly reeled and dropped dead on the sidewalk. Death had been due to apoplexy ami practically instimraneous. The decedent was one of the Morrill twins who have for several years conducted the gospel ship mission in t'hieago. Dynamite with fuse attached was placed on the bar of t he saloon of Christopher Portland, nt Mahanoy City, Pa. The front part of the building wns blown across the street and the adjoining buildings on either side wdre badly wrecked. Portland and the other mem -Cw-s-oT-CieTamiiy-a'su^peuCmjniw.—Port-latid's two sons are non-union men and worked during the strike. The first attack on the constitutionality of. the new municipal code Jaw of Ohio met with defeat in the court of common pleas at Cincinnati. The case was brought at the request of a taxpayer to test the law. Judge Murphy overruled the plaintiff's demurrer to the answer, thus sustaining the constitutionality of the law on all the points raised. If was alleged that the law was m>t uniform in its operation and that it was not h gaily passed. It is understood the case will be appealed to the Circuit Court ami then taken to the Supreme Court to set tie th« point of const it utiomdity finally.