Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1902 — BREVITIES. [ARTICLE]

BREVITIES.

The postollice at Enon \ alley. Pit., was robbed of $482 in cash and s3.">i> in stamps. John Perry, a prisoner, held Jailer Fuller at Dandridge. Tenn., while six other prisoners escaped. The re-trial of James Wilcox for the murder of Nellie ( Topsey has been ordered taken to the court ut Hertford, N. C. . Apthraeite operators refused to confer with Mitchell, thus destroying all prospects for a sell lenient outside the eommissioii appointed by' President Roosevelt. One man was killed and seven others seriously injured by the explosion of a locomotive boiler at 'Thompson, Pa., on the Monongahela division of the Pennsylvania Railroad. After killing Dr. Miller nml fatally wounding Joseph Bishop, cattlemen of w. stern Oklahoma, in a quarrel over a mortgage foreclosure, John Dillard committed suicide by shooting. Gypsy, elephant of W. 11. Harris circus, became enraged while in railroad car near Tifton, Gn., killed James O'Rourke, its keeper, and escaped; employes followed mid killed it. ('. J. Horton, County Commissioner of Runnells County. Texas, shot ami instantly killed Earl Moore and .Mrs. Horton ami then committed suicide. No cause has been assigned for the tragedy. Police Captain Maso and two officers were wounded and two strikers were killed in a demonstration in front of the palace at Havana. Two other policemen ami several strikers were wounded. Alexander Behrend. formerly of Cl :- <ngo, who served on the cruiser Cincinnati during the Spanish-American war, was taken to Buffalo after a chase of a year to answer the charge of ehei k t-iis-ing. Swift A Co., who are just completing jointly with the Armours the large meat packing plants nt Fort Worth, have determined to erect nt once seventeen large distributing plants in ns many Texas cities. “Labor unions have come to stay and lire one of the forces working to muse the [i>t <>f mankind happier," said President Eliot, of Harvard Pniversity, in answering the labor critics of his recent spot eli. The Ohio Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons laid the corner stone of the new Akron City Hospital. Dr. \V. A. Belt, of Kenton, grand muster of Ohio, was in charge. The hospital will cost SI<X),IMM). Charles M. Moore, n member of the firm of A. J. Whipple & Co., stock brokers at 115 Monroe street, Chicago, killed himself at his home by shooting. Whether the shooting wns by accident or design is not positively known. According to advices from Monnstir, eighty-seven miles west of Saloliien, the Turks are inflicting terrible tortures on i’tllgiiriim peasants in order to extort confessions which may lend to the discovery of revolutionary bands. B. B. Newcomb, n Christian Scientist advocate, lias been nrrested and convicted in court nt Arapahoe, Okla., on the charge of refusing medical aid for his slaughter, who died of typhoid fever. The judge lined Newcomb SIOO mid costs. In spite of the comforting ilssunanees that the Macedonian agitation is ended numerous a rim'd bands continue, says tl dispatch from Salonika, to hold their ground in the inaccessible districts mid sporadic disturbances lire constantly reported. Lee Weigel nml Ids wife were found in their room nt the Cosmopolitan Hotel. Tcxarknnn, Ark., with their throats cut. The woman was dead. A bloody razor lay on the floor near the bed. Weigvj was taken to a snnitarh'in nad probably will recover. He refuses tw make any Statement.