Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1901 — MINOR EVENTS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

MINOR EVENTS OF THE WEEK

Items of General Interest Told in Paragraphs. COMPLETE NEWS SUMMARY. Record of Happening. of Much or Little Importance from All Parte of the Civilized World —Incident*. Enterprise*. Accidents, Verdicts. Crimes and War*. A brick kiln collapsed at Vassar, Mich., and five men were buried under four feet of brick. They are John Chadwick. Earl Peete, Henry Berry, Titus Wager and Seth Stevens. All were badly crushed and Stevens and Wager may die. Daniel Daly, a farmer living near Valparaiso, Ind,, was killed in a runaway accident. The contract for the Carnegie free library at Portland, Ind., has been awarded to Bulley & Andrews of Chicago for $12,098, exclusive of heating, plumbing and gas fitting. A pistol duel was fought on Little Bird <?reek, near Middlesboro, Ky.' between Thomas Little, aged 70, and William Strong, aged about 40. Strong was killed and Little surrendered to the authorities. Elrino Chavez and Leon Mora were run over by a Santa Fe train near Hanover, N. M. Both were decapitated and horribly mangled. They were on the way to the wedding of Mora to the stepdaughter of Chavez. Thomas W. Lawson to buy fourteen islands lying near together off Stonington. Me., which he will connect by bridges and convert into a summer home. Case of smallpox among 600 excursionists caused panic on steamer Arundel while running between Alexandra Bay and Oswego," N. Y. High school boy at Correctionville, la., shot and killed employe of Wild West show who attacked him. Robert C. Evans. United States District attorney for Minnesota, died suddenly. It took ten Hoboken policemen to arrest a man made insane by cigarets.

President Shaffer and his advisers consented to have peace proposals made to the steel employers. A committee of the Civic Federation will lay the matter before .[he mill owners. Strike at, the Qonkey plant at Hammond, Ind., may involve all of the employes of the concern. Electroplaters’ union to demand recognition. Policeman James H. Wiley of Chicago shot and killed David Lindskog, a preacher s son. Victim accused of having beeh one of a party of eight who attacked the policeman. Richard Darling, a Pennsylvania brakeman, fell between cars at Donaldson, Ind., and was cut to pieces. His home was in Chicago. J. M. Mercer, convicted last May of assaulting Jessie Taylor, a little girl was hanged at Tampa, Fla. He died declaring his innocence. While Claude Bradway and two companions were sailing on Center lake, near Warsaw, Ind., the boat was overturned and Bradway was drowned. Sam Farrow, a negro, shot and killed his wife, his father-in-law and mother-in-law near Dawkins, S. C. A posse started after him and Farrow fired at them from ambush, but without effect He was arrested later and lodged in jail.

Husband of 18 years shot at bride of 15 at Palmyra, Wis., and himself Corset saved her life, but he will die. Charles W. Nordstrom hanged at Seattle after a legal fight for freedom that lasted nine years. Postmaster H. E. Harris of Durand, 111., arrested, charged with a shortage of $1,900. 6 Brakeman U. S. C. Payne fell from an engine at Moweaqua, 111., and was decapitated. Safe blowers robbed the Hull, lowa, postoffice of $474 in stamps and $l5O in cash. Carl Schrader, the 5-year-old son of Mrs. Kate Schrader, was killed by a Wabash train at Litchfield, 111. Two negroes were killed and fourteen injured by the explosion of tfie boiler on a pump boat at Donaldsonville, La. Allegan, Mich., will hold a special election Sept. 11 to vote on the proposition to put in a new pumping station in the waterworks plant. H. H. Aplin has been nominated by republicans of the Michigan tenth district to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Congressman H. O. Crump. Governor McSweeney of South Carolina has pardoned Colonel W. A. Neal, formerly superintendent of the state penitentiary, who was convicted of failing to turn over funds to his successor. His bondsmen made up a shortage of $7,000 and have been repaid by Mr. Neal. He has never been actually imprisoned. State Geologist Blatchley warns Indiana farmers to check the growth of the Texas thistle, a sample of which has been found In Hendricks county. Franklin M. Flynn was found dead in his bed at Jacksonville, HI. Indications point to heart disease, but the coroner will investigate. Charles Rabe, a farmer near Red Bud, 111., was overcome by foul air while cleaning a well and died. William Berry Harris, aged about 55 years, a farmer near Ramsey, 111., committed suicide by taking strychnine. He left a letter srylng ill health was the only cause.