Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1902 — CONDENSED TELLGRAPHIC NEWS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CONDENSED TELLGRAPHIC NEWS

Street railway officials of Providence, R. L, refused to accede to the demands of their employes for a recognition of the union, an agreement to arbitrate differences, a working day of ten hours in twelve and a wage of 22% cents per hour. Unless one party or the other recedes from its present position every brewery in Boston will be closed bn April 1. The l;50d brewery workmen demand an eight-hour workday without reduction of wages. The firemen employed in the breweries have asked for 40 cents per hour overtime and that Sunday and holiday work shall be paid as overtime. Mayor Capdevielle of New Orleans has promised the street car employes of that city to try and arrange conferences with the street car presidents. Two little children of John Bergue of Mound Lake, Minn., fell through the Ice and were drowned. John Vinso, who killed Wallace Ward, a Frisco brakeman. at Pierce City, Mo., last fall, was found guilty of murder in the first degree at Aurora, Mo. General Hennequin, the director of the Military Cartographical society of Brussels, committed suicide by shooting with a rifle. In a recent fatal riot at Philates In Epirus between Albanians and Turks the latter endeavored to rescue a notable criminal from the local prison. The disturbances were followed by a fight in which eight gendarmes were killed. The troops arrested fifty Albanians.

Rev. F. B. Meyer, pastor of Christ church, Westminster Bridge road, London, has informed - his congregation that negotiations have been opened to obtain the temporary services at Christ church during the coming autumn and winter of Rev. Dr. A, T. Pierson, the American. Dr. Meyer will afterward resume his pastorate. John Henry Peavy, a negro, was hanged at Vienna, Ga„ for the murder of Jesse Ford. The special session of the Colorado legislature adjourned after the passage of the revenue bill. The western association of the Electrical Supply Jobbers of the United States met at Cincinnati. Stanislaus La Croix, who murdered his wife and an old man named Thomps, who was endeavoring to protect her, was hanged at Hull, Quebec. Albert Smith, a negro, aged 20, was convicted at Des Moines, lowa, of murder in the second degree for killing Bruce Martin in a riot In a saloon Feb. 2.

George Carter, colored, was hanged at Moundsville, W. Va., for the murder of Virgil Whistler, also colored, for refusal to pay money won at craps. George W. Maxey, who represented Michigan in the Northern Oratorical League two years ago, was again awarded that honor in the contest at Ann Arbor. Albert Baritz, a farmer, died from exposure during the blizzard near Harvey, N. 0. His body was found three miles from his home, where he had wandered. At Springfield 111., Attorney William \> llliams, tried on the charge of robr bing the postoffice at Willierville, Perry county, was convicted and sentenced to two years in the Chester penitentiary. Henry Wright, a negro who attempted to assault a white girl at San Marcos, Tex., and barely escaped lynching, was given ninety-nine years in the penitentiary. John Blanchi shot and killed his wife at Hlbbing, Minn., and committed suicide by the same method. The dead woman had left home in Eveleth, Minn., with another man.

Coroner Laird at Auburn, N. Y., finds the Aurelius wreck on the New York Centra], in which six lives were sacrificed, was due to the recklessness and carelessness of Engineer Durand and Conductor Butler. W. W. Thomas, Jr., the American minister at Stockholm, gave an official dinner in honor of Bishop Von Scheele, the special envoy of King Oscar to President Roosevelt. The royal mail steamer Elbe arrived at Southampton from the Azore islands, having on board the passengers of the disabled Cunard line steamer Etruria and the Etruria mails. Eigh'/-seven of the persons who were arrested at St. Petersburg" for rioting has been sentenced to three months’ imprisonment. The prosecutions of the ringleaders are still pending.

At the Ninth district Republican convention held at Kokomo, Ind., Charles B. Landis was renominated by acclamation. • Venezuelan government troops recaptured Guanta, but the situation for the government appears grave owing to the activity of the Insurgents. Inflammatory documents preaching revolution were distributed in St. Petersburg by students. Citizens were urged to rise against the Czar and despotism. J. P. Norwell, a Boston banker, married Lizzie Raymond, the actress.