Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1904 — HE HEWS IN BRIEF [ARTICLE]

HE HEWS IN BRIEF

Eleven persons were Injured In n collision between an electric train and a Selby Hill dummy at St. Paul. - Trouble Is being experienced In securing a jury to try Chauucey Dewey, millionaire ranchman, and his two cowboys at Norton, Kan,, for the murder of two members of the Berry family. William Jennings Bryan was one of the principal speakers at the Goebel memorial exercises in the Kentucky legislature. Congressman Wilson of Chicago has Introduced a bill In the house of representatives providing Tor increases in salaries for postal clerks in first and second class offices. * i Mrs. Edith J. Raiff of Denver was given a verdict of $3,000 An the United Sates court of appeal at Milwaukee against the Northern Pacific railroad for injuries received in a collision, although Mrs. Raiff obtained her ticket from a scalper. The Illinois supreme court has affirmed its decision that real estate In Cook county cannot be assessed oftener than once in four years. Conductor Robert Duncan and Mr». John Classey of Halifax were killed when the Intercolonial express train jumped the track near Halifax, N. S. Nearly the entire business section of Grand Chaim, 111., has been destroyed by fire. Armand W. Brand of Chicago has filed against the state of New York a claim of $30,000 for injuries received in an automobile accident in Syracuse.