Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1903 — EVENTS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

EVENTS OF THE WEEK

Dolly Earle, a member of the Merry Widows company, playing at a Philadelphia burlesque house, committed suicide in her dressing room by swallowing carbolic acid. Miss Earle was 30 years old. Her home is said to have been in Oklahoma. John Bachman, aged 24 years, and William Bachman, aged 10 years, brothers, were found dead in their room in a hotel at Allentown, Pa. They had been asphyxiated by illuminating gas. It is supposed they blew out the gas when they retired. Gov. Durbin has notified Sheriff John S. Dudley of Sullivan, Ind., that lie is no longer to consider himself a public officer because he permitted a mob to take James Dillard, a prisoner, from him at:d lynch him. Dudley announces his determination to contest the constitutionality of the statute. The little town of Moorefteld, W. Vu., is terror-stricken over a series of violent explosions which turn out To have been an attempt to wreck the business section of the town. T’en sticks of dynamite were used, and as a result the residence of George Kuykendall, adjoining the court house, and George B. Eberly’s store are almost wrecked.

Max Ilayes of Cleveland, Ohio, a socialist and labor leader, has sent a long letter to David M. Parry, president of the National Manufacturers’ Association, at Indianapolis, Ind., challenging him to debate the- relative rights of labor and capital. Mr. Parry is credited with the statement that “unionized labor breeds socialism and is therefore a menace.” Guy Harris was hound over to the grand jury in Toledo, Ohio, at his own request. lie is charged with the murder es Anna Snyder. When asked why he made the unusual request hi* answered that he would rather take ehanees with the grand jury and also have his attor ucy’s expenses paid h,v the State than attempt to withstand the hot cross-tire of questions by detectives. Miss Snyder was found suffocated by pillows. Catholics in every part of the world are preparing to show their devotion and fidelity to Pope Levi XIII. tit the end of the celebration of bis silver jubilee next April by presenting to him an almost priceless jewel. This is. a topaz weighing nearly four pounds, the largest in the world. It is now in the hands of skilled workmen a) Borne, where it is being richly carved. The jewel nil! eniit.ini when finished a represent at ion ol the pupal arms and of Christ breaking bread. During the rehears tl of a western drama in the Bcese opera lmttse, in South Marion, Ind.. William Fogleson, aged IS years, the hero, shot and instantly killed Oliver Miller, aged 25, the villain. Miss May Fogleson, a sister of William Fogleson, says.that not even blank cartridges have been used during the rehearsals, and it wtis not the intention to use them. She says young Fogleson carried the revolver with a number of loose cartridges in his overcoat, and their 9-yeuv-otd brother must have secured tin* weapon and loaded it without the knowledge of his elder brother.