Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 December 1903 — BREVITIES. [ARTICLE]

BREVITIES.

Jacob P. Pntzke, a farmer, kicked his wife to death and then handed himself at Clinska, Minn. Langley’s airship recorded a complete failure. The craft broke in two at the launching stage and fell into the river with the navigator. The Greek steamers Pyloros and Assos collided at Ithaca. Tire Pyloros was partially submerged and fifty of her passengers were drowned. Former Postal Clerks McGregor and Upton were convicted in Baltimore of conspiracy to defraud the government in connection with the purchase of leather pouches. A cemetery at Victor, Colo., known as the “non-union graveyard’’ because it is owned by a firm opposed to lnbor unions, was attacked with dynamite and buildings destroyed. A promise to put down lawlessness, fends and murders was made by Gov» ernor J. C. W. Beckham in his speech at Frankfort, Ivy., on the occasion of his second inaugural. From an injury received jn playing football on Thanksgiving Day William J. Devlin 14 years old. is dead in Phils* delphin. His knee was injured and blood poisoning set in. John Osucbowski, a trunkmaker who refused to go on strike with his fellow employes, was shot to death from ambush in Elston avenue, Chicago. His dying words were: “Strikers shot me.” Mrs. Joseph Hindman was shot in the head and killed by her husband at their home in Pittsburg. After killing his wife Hindman sent a bullet Into liis own brain. Physicians say he cannot reeover. Venezuela has imported 15,000 riflea ready to Invade Colombia should she declare war on the United States. American marines are encamped on the isth* mus guarding the trail invaders are like1/ to take. Forced to move his wife and several small children from his home in Louisville because he could not pay his rent, Ben Fursting sought shelter in a lumber yard and was found the nest dayfrozen to death. Firei in the chair factory of John A. Dunn in Boston caused a loss estimated at $125,000. There were a number of narrow escapes among the employes, but all persons in the building ure believed to have been saved. John Wagner, in jail in Cleveland on the charge of obtaining money by false pretenses, has been identified as John P. Kunze, who was mixed up in the Cronin murder case in Chicago in 1800, and who was known as “Cooney, the Fox.” Three sets .of twins in the same block and born on the same day sets the pace for the anti-race suicide movement, according to the citizens of New Philadelphia, Pa. Photographs of the infants have been sent to President Roosevelt, accompanied by requests that he name them. In one of the largest Front street wholesale groceries in Memphis, Tenn.. George Rawlins and Kirk Allen killed each other in a hand-to-hand fight, one being armed with a knife and the other with a hatchet. Both men were negroes •ffnj were employed in the house.