Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1902 — CONDENSED TLEEGRAPHIC NEWS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CONDENSED TLEEGRAPHIC NEWS

Waukegan, Wis., hunters are taking steps to stock Lake County with quail. Already over SIOO has been subscribed for the purpose, and next month the first lot of 300 to 400 birds will be released. Hugh Monroe, aged 42 years, of Kenosha, died suddenly in the railway station while waiting for a train for Racine. Death was due to heart disease. Police at Chicago interrupted the funeral of John Bretz, a boy, and the coroner will Investigate the cause of his death, which may have been due to cruelty. National Guard experts in Illinois, Wisconsin, lowa, Michigan and Indiana have approved the congressional bill to reorganize the militia. Albert O. Klein of Chicago, a student at the University of Michigan, committed suicide because he thought his life a failure. Philadelphia street railway officials have caused the arrest of several persons charged with conspiracy to swindle by fraudulent damage suits. An electric cab ran over and fatally injured an unidentified 'man in New York while a new chauffeur was being instructed how to run the machine. The Filipino insurrection in Batangas province is practically ended as a result of Gen. Bell s energetic campaign. Mrs. W. Tod Helmuth, president of the New York State Federation of Women’s Clubs, in defining a true gentleman, says polish and repose will not suffice, but kindness is the real test Frederick Walker was killed and his brother Frank probably fatally injured while trying to drive across the railroad track in front of an engine at Waverly, Neb. Judge Lacombe in the United States circuit court at New York in suit of Eugene Fish of Paris, France, against the executors and trustees oi the will of the late Jay Gould ordered the trustees to pay over to the creditors out of the income of Countess De Castellane certain monthly installments until the judgments are satisfied. A bill creating a new United States judicial district in Texas, with an additional United States district judge has been favorably aced upon by the House judiciary committee. Shelly Streeter, manager of Armour & Co.’s house, at David City, Neb., has been missing several days. The auditor of the company began an examination of his books and announced that he had found a shortage of $2,500. The Des Moines city council empowered Mayor Hartenbower to employ as many special officers as he may need to perfectly quarantine every smallpox infected house in Des Moines. The mayor at once hired fifty men. Panay scouts in Samar killed a ..number of Filipinos and captured their commander, named Winfrey, a deserter from an American regiment. Another deserter named Ixing is still operating with the Filipinos. Word comes from Lahore, India, that under the new regime of nonintervention the plague is ravaging the Punjab, and a thousand deaths are occurring daily. The broom factory at Shelbyville, 111., was destroyed by fire Thursday evening. Ix)ss, $30,000; insurance, $lO,000. Gov. Toole of Montana has granted the extradition of James Higgins, one of the three men wanted at Tipton, Ind., on the charge of murdering Rachael White. John Young, one of the four burglars who murdered Washington Hunter, a wealthy farmer of Riverside, N. J., Jan. 25, 1901, has been sentenced to be hanged March 18. The Ohio House has passed a bill providing that any parent or guardian who shall willfully deprive any sick child under the age of 16 years of the services of a physician shall be fined from $lO to S2OO. or imprisoned for six months, or both. The Northern Pacific switchmen’s strike in the yards at Missoula, Mont., has been declared off, every concession asked for by the switchmen having been granted. The Swiss government has introduced in parliament the draft of a new custom tariff bill intended to serve as a basis for future commercial treaty negotiations. The new Syms-Eaton Academy at Hampton, Va., has been dedicated, the occasion being commemorative of the founding of the first free school in America, the old Syms-Eaton Academy. Fire destroyed the International company's grist mill at Selma, Ala., causing a loss of $50,000. ’ John McCormack has been convicted at Nebraska City, Neb., of murder in the second degree for shooting Mrs. Maggie Lisley last November. Defiance Starch, 16 ounces, 10 cents. The accounts of Samuel T. Mosley, retiring postmaster of Jonesboro, 111.; have been found $735 short. The German Nautical society of Hamburg has passed a resolution for the widening of the Kiel canal, as it has already reached its traffic capacity