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

NEWS NUGGETS

Benjamin Eagan. Sr., a real estate and loan broker of Enid, Okla., committed suicide by shooting. Eire in K. G. Schmidt;s brewery, in Chicago, partly wrecked the plant and caused a loss of $50,000. The Missouri Supreme Court sent need William Gatlin and Charles Gurley, both negro murderers, to be hanged Jan. 3 next. Mary L. Greenleafe, (KJ years old, sister of the poet Longfellow, died at her home in Cambridge. Mass., after a brief illness. Richard Paddock, n veteran conductor of the Lake Shore, was killed near Cleveland by stepping in front of a train on tlie opposite track. Floods swept down the wall inclosing n public garden in Rome, Italy. A house was also demolished by the water. Three children were drowned. Mrs. Lizzie Wilson was shot and killed and Ruth Stein was wounded in a Pittsburg resort. The shooting was done, it is alleged, by Harry Singer. T. Henry French, theatrical manager who first produced "Little Lord Fauntleroy," "Dr. Bill” ami other dramas, died at New York, aged 55 years. The jury in the case of the seven eititittH of Marion. Muss., charged w ith participating in tlie famous Marion whitecap raid, returned a verdict of not guilty for ull of them. It was amioimecd at the State Department that the international copyright ngreemeiit with Spain of IXIS has been restored to full effect by an exchange of diplomatic notes. Announcement was made in Philadelphia of the proposed formation of a large combination in the rubber industry to be known ns the International Rubber Company with a capital of $25,000,00). President Joseph Smith of Mormon Church, in an interview, declared the church does not sanction polygamy; only members who had plural wives before unti-polygamy law was passed now possess them. Twelve men arc missing nnd are thought to have perished, while a score of others were more or less st riously injured by an explosion which destroyed the steamer Progreso at Harbor View, San Francisco. Erwin and Edward Fuller, arrested while trying to sell $1,500 worth of postage stamps in Chicago, are implicated in Ponca (Okla.) robbery by figures “1— 30,000" written on stamp sheet; postmaster there recognized-figures as his. Howard T. Goodwin, treasurer of the banking and brokerage firm of Cussntt Ac Co., committed suicide in Philadelphia by shooting. Ho was found dead in the firm's office in the Arcade Building. No cause is known. Ho was 32 years old. Claude 1,. Stillman of Newark. N. J., who was secretary to Gov. Murphy of New Jersey, and who pleaded guilty to forgery and embezzlement, was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment. Stillman embezzled funds of the Murphy Vnrniih Company. • Tb<- bill for the admission of Oklahoma, Arizona ami New Mexico *to statehood whs reported to tin- Senate Wednesday morning by Senator Nelson, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute admitting Oklahoma and Indian Territory ns one State under the name of Oklahoma.