Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1902 — SUMMARY OF NEWS. [ARTICLE]

SUMMARY OF NEWS.

The bodies of two men were found in the ruins of the tire at the lumber yard of L. 8. Johnson A Co. in Boston. Ttye victims were Theodore C. Graves of Roxbury, of the firm of Graves & Phelps, furniture manufacturers, anti G. K. Pratt of Roxbury, employed by Graves A Phelps. Captain George Wellington Streeter of Chicago, erstwhile governor of the “District of Lake Michigan,” mariner, discoverer, squatter and thespian, and his codefendants, William McMnnners and Henry Hoeldtke, were found guilty of manslaughter, and punishment was fixed at imprisonment in the penitentiary. President King announced, nt chapel services at Oberlin, Ohio, the offer of $50,000 just received to form a part of IL new $300,000 fund for the increased endowment and greater equipment of Oberlin College. The gift came ns a surprise, as It was entirely unsolicited by college officials. The donor refused to allow his name to become known. The Court of Appeals at Frankfort, Ky., for the second time reversed the judgment of the lower court in the case of ex-Secretary of State Caleb Powers, sentenced to life imprisonment for alleged complicity in the murder of William Goebel. The court <jivid«‘d on party lines, the four Republican judges voting for a reversal and the three Democratic judges dissenting. The Bridger Bank at Bridger. Mont., was robbed and a sum believed to be near SIO,(HM) taken. There were three men, one holding the horses while two rifled the bank, overpowering the cashier and a friend witli him. The alarm was given and the robbers brought to bay in the rocks of Hand Creek canyon by a posse, but they escaped during a wait for re enforcements after a lively exchange of shots. A passenger train on the Queen and Crescent Railroad ran into a box ear that had blown on the main track at Sunbright, Tenn. ,A fireman and express messenger are supposed to have been cremated in the tire winch destroyed the mail car, baggage car, express and two passenger coaches. The remains of a negro tramp have also been found in the wreck. No passengers were hurt. Two locomotives were demolished. The price of rice has been broken in Manila and the native operators have insured the supply of this foodstuff at reasonable rates. The Philippine com mission, when n rice famine was threatened at the beginning of November, appropriated $2,000,000 Mexican, ami quietly purchased upward of 20,000 tons of rice in India ami on the Asiatis coast to be sold to the sufferers at. a cash price which it was thought would cover just the cost. This has prevented the threatened corner.