Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1902 — CONDENSED TELEGRAPHIC NEWS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CONDENSED TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

Mr. Butterfield, who has an experiment station near Farmington, Mo., has recently received from Angiers, France, a consignment of 55,000 pear and cherry stock. It will be nearly three years before this stock is ready tor the market. R. J. M. Danley, superintendent of the Keokuk Electric Railway and Power company, has resigned to accept an offer from New York parties, who have engaged him to supervise the construction and operation of a water power and electrical transmission plant near the City of Mexico. James Murphy, a stockman living at Parnell, la., was found dead in bed at Chicago. It is believed that he blew out the gas by mistake. E. D. Evans, a veteran of the Mexican and civil wars, is dead at his home at Liberty Hill, Tex., aged 79. Rollin Houdyshell is dead as the result of a gunshot wound at the home of Eva Bliss in the tenderloin district at Ottumwa, la. The Southern Pacific will supply the strawberries for the Chicago banqupt to Prince Henry of Prussia. The coast country of Texas will be searched for fine fruit. The United Cigar company, a New York corporation, was chartered to do business in Ohio by the secretary of state at Columbus. Its capital stock is 17,000,000. At Paris Le Journal Officiel has published a decree, continuing for six months from Feb. 24, the application of the minimum tariff to colonial products imported from the United States, Porto Rico and certain other countries. Only a few workmen at Turin, Italy, responded to the call for a general strike. Some rioting nas occurred in which two policemen were injured while dispersing the mob. The prefect of the city has forbidden public meetings. Charles M. Schwab of the United States Steel Corporation is reported to be a heavy shareholder in the WagonLits Company of Paris. Lieutenant Commander von Reistorff, who came over in Prince Henry’s suite, will explore the Amazon River country. The Second National Bank of Dubuque, lowa, has filed a petition against the county treasurer’s assessment of United States bonds included in the regular assessment of the bank’s assets. Shad Seago, a prisoner in the jail at Jerseyville, HL, made his escape. James Karnes, a farmer near Lincoln Center, Kan., while out hunting had his gun accidentally discharged, the load hitting him in the neck and almost severing his head from his body. Two negroes of the same name, Tony Sims, met death in Birmingham, Ala., within four blocks of one another. One worked at the rolling mills and was crushed between two railroad cars which he was coupling at the time, and the other fell down a smokestack at the Alice furnace, crushing his skull. The department council of Patriarchs Militant, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of lowa, met in annual convention at Marshalltown.

E. H. Kirkham, 70 years old, proprietor of a general store in Coalgate, I. T., and a man of wealth, committed suicide in a Kansas City hotel by taking morphine. Albert Evans of Kansas City, Mo., is in Monterey, Mexico, for the purpose, it is stated, of making arrangements for building a large oleomargarine factory in that city. The Colorado legislature, which is controlled by the farming element, has passed a bill to third reading providing for taxing mines at their actual valuation. Many rumors regarding the control of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western railway are in circulation. A big fight is said to be in progress among the multimillionaires to secure possession of this property. It is understood that East St. Louis electric lines have been sold to the Clark brothers of Philadelphia. The sale has been pending for some time. The price paid for the lines is said to be >2,000.000. A mandamus suit of the city of St. Louis against the state board of equalization to compel the assessment of franchise corporations was filed ip the Missouri supreme court. Court martials have been ordered at Yokohama in the case of a number of Japanese officers who are accused of looting during the campaign in China against the “boxers.” Judgments have been rendered against Douglas county, Mo., in favor of persons who hold about $20,000 worth of old county warrants. The county court will call an election soon to let the people determine the manner of payment Defiance Starch. 16 ounces, 10 cents. r A contest for the privilege of hauling baggage and passengers to and from the different railroad stations and hotels in Chicago is going on between the Parmelee Transfer comf«ny and the Chicago Transfer com-