Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 February 1903 — EVENTS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

EVENTS OF THE WEEK

Frank Dellerman, former private in the Thirteenth linked States Infantry, hits been arrested at Sun Francisco on charge of having escaped from Alcatraz Island, where he was imprisoned for murder in the Philippines. lie says he vas discharged. George Hamilton Pell, who was <r.ie of the powers in Wail street fifteen years ago, stood before Justice New burger in general sessions in New York and confessed himself to he a thief. Pell plead guilty to a charge of grand larceny in the first degree. In a fit of insanity. Mrs. Henry <iujilfmann, wife of a farmer living two miles from New Medio, Mo., shot and killed her sleeping O-year-old'.daughter, made an ineffectual attempt to kill her infant child, and was later found wandering around in n dazed condition. At Oswego, N. Y’., fire destroyed the plant of the' Ontario Malting Company, owned hy Klliott 1!. Mott of Oswego and William A. Waite of Adams. One hundred thousand bushels of grain were destroyed, nnd the loss will aggregate SIOO,000, which is covered by insurance. A race war lias been started in Payette, Mo., ns the result of the public whipping of three negroes on the court house steps for alleged misconduct. Two of them were women. Since then it is said twenty-five negro families have been , frightened into leaving the vicinity. Two lives were lost and ten men had narrow escapes as a result of a tire in No. 8 shaft at the Spruce mine, owned by the United Slate* Steel Corporation, at Kveleth, Minn. The fire was caused by the explosion of a lantern which was left near the edge of the shaft on the second level, 150 feet below tin l surface. An Important feature in the interstate mining agreement was officially announced at Pittsburg by President Dnlan. It provides for the payment of the advance in wages to union men only, and on April 1, when it takes effect, miners who are not members of the I'nited Mine Workers will not participate in tiie increase granted by. the operators.