Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 March 1903 — EVENTS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

EVENTS OF THE WEEK

The Cummiqgs block, containing the postofflce, the bank of Fuller & Pects and Collins’ jewelry store, burned to the ground at Canaan, Conn. It is believed the fire was started by burglars after they had broken open the safes in the building. An autoppy held on the body of Horace 11. Hagan, a widely known politician and banker who died suddenly at Guthrie, Okla., supposedly frofn heart disease, indicates opium poisoning. It is stated that Mr. Hagan took an overdose of the drug to allay pain. What promises to be the largest discovery of gold ever known in that country has just been made at Arlintnnga, South Australia. There has been n rush of diggers to the district where the find was made and syndicates ure forming to purchase and work claims. The failure of A. B. Turner & Broiher of Boston was announced on the Stock Exchange. The firm was largely interested in Massachusetts Consolidated Mining and in western railway projects. The failure is attributed to the stringency of the money market. At David City, Neb., the jury in the Lillie murder ease brought in a verdict of guilty and fixed the punishment at Imprisonment for life. Mrs. Lena M. Lillie was accused of murdering her bus band, Harvey Lillie, early in the morning of Oct. 24 last by shooting him as he lay asleep in his bed. Mrs. Lillie claimed her husband had been shot by a burglar. The Golden State Limited, of the Bock Bland Itailroad, running over the Union Pacific tracks, crashed into the smoker of another passenger train which was trying to make a‘siding at the Hock Island junction, just outside of the Kansas City yards. The smoker was thrown from the track, turned over and smashed Into kindling wood and seventeen passengers sustained injuries. Police Captain Sam Boyd of the fourth district in Bt. Louis was suspended after n conference between Chief Keily and President Harry B. Ilawes of the police board. This action was taken after official notice was given of the Indictment returned by the grand jury against Boyd for neglect of duty in allowing the existence in his district of h/nises where young girls were held ns prisoners.