Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 February 1903 — WEEK’S NEWS RECORD [ARTICLE]

WEEK’S NEWS RECORD

One man was killed and $ 12,000 damage done by a fire which partially destroyed the plant of the East Liverpool Bagger Company, manufacturers of potters' supplies at East Liverpool. Ohio. A telephone lineman named McAleer, who was asleep on the third floor,'was suffocated. The question of allowing women the right to vote came up In the Senate at Augusta, Me. A lengthy speech was made In favor of woman suffrage by Senator Staples, of Knox County. The vote stood 12 to 12 nnd President Virgin broke the tie by voting against the suffragists. A telegram from Carlsbad, X. M., says George 11. Hutchins, proprietor of the Hotel Schlitz, and one of the best-known newspaper correspondents in the Southwest, was shot and killed by Clabe Merchant of Illack River In a street duel. Merchant was wounded, but may recover. Tlie men quarreled over a trifling matter. The St. Clair Hotel, one of the largest hostelrles of Port Huron, Mich., was destroyed by fire. A man named Worthy, employed at the hotel ns a yardsmnn, Is missing and is believed to have been burned to death. Milton Campbell, n fireman, was fatally crushed under falling walls. All the hotel guests made their escape. Franklin Baer, alias Joseph Meyer, nlins Meier, who was arreeted in Baltimore on the charge of robbery, told Detective O’Dea that he had been concerned In a recent hold-up on the Northern Pacific, In which he secured the larger part of the sum of $11,(150, which, he says, is to his Credit in the Drovers' National Bank of Chicago. In X'ew Orleans Ella Atkins is dead and Folgcr Green in the hospital with threo wounds at the result of a compact they entered into to end their lives. The woman died of poisoning. The man stabbed himself twice Sn the neck and then slashed his wrists. The tragedy occurred in a hotel, where the couple passed as man and wife. Standing on the gallows at Jackson, Miss., with the death cap on, Joseph Campbell, a negro murderer, secured a reprieve for ten days by whispering to the Sheriff the name of his accomplice in crime. The Sheriff at once suspended operations, telegraphed Governor Longino and secured the respite that, more evidence might be secured from Campbell.