Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1902 — CONDENSED TELLEGRAPHIC NEWS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CONDENSED TELLEGRAPHIC NEWS

Samuel D. Smith, deputy sheriff, 1b reported to have been murdered near East Lynne, W. Va., by Walt Hite. Smith was endeavoring to arrest Hite. Michael Fontinetta, a miner of Murphysboro, 111., was murdered in the Italian section of the city by two Italians, who escaped. Miss Henrietta von Pein, aged 24 years, daughter of Matthew von Pein, a prominent citizen, was found dead in the lake at Richmond, Va. No motive for suicide is known. With $6,000 more Barnard College, New York, will have the |200,000 necessary to secure the gift of $200,000 additional offered by John D. Rockefeller. The floating dry docks at Havana will probably not be taken to the Philippines. The old Spanish dock will probably remain in Cuban waters. The training ship Monongahela has arrived at Old Point from San Juan. Bertha Walman, the little quadroon, who reached New York as a stowaway from Bermuda some weeks ago, has been sent back to her home. Albert T. Patrick, convicted of murder of “Millionaire Rice, and now awaiting the death sentence, and Mrs. Addie M. Francis became husband and wife in the matron’s room of the Tombs at New York City. William Harris, colored, who assaulted and murdered a young negro girl, was hanged at Selma, Ala. The scale committee of operators and miners of the eleventh (Indiana) district at Terre Haute has reached an agreement, the new scale being practically the same as last year, neither side winning a point. The coal miners employed in the Allegheny and “Kiskekenitas valleys, Pennsylvania, have ordered a strike April 1, the companies having refused to sign the scale. About 2,500 men and thirty-five companies will be affected. The scale committee of miners and operators at Bridgeport. 0., have decided that the scale must be accepted or rejected as a whole, and in the latter event bring on a strike. The joint conference of the operators and miners of the Chicago and Alton subdistrict at Springfield adjourned without reaching an agreement. It was agreed that State President Russell of the United Mine Workers and Herman Justi, commissioner of the Illinois Coal Operators’ association, should arbitrate the matters in dispute. King Cotton Mill operatives at Augusta, Ga., have decided to demand a 10 per cent increase in wages April 7. Operatives in other mills have agreed to support them should they strike. The mill authorities say the demand will be refused and that a strike will be met by a lock-out in all the mills, including those at Bath, Warrenvllle, Langley and Graniteville, S. C. The Ohio senate passed the Beal local option bill, making it a law. Fire destroyed nearly a block of the business portion of Mesa City, Ariz., causing $250,000 loss. Congressman M. E. Benton was renominated at St. Louis by the fifteenth Missouri Democratic convention. Admiral Dewey, writing from Palm Beach, Fla., reports Mrs. Dewey as much better and on the way to complete recovery. > George W. Carter, aged 50, a farmer and stock buyer, committed suicide at Morristown, Ind., by exploding a stick of dynamite in his mouth. Fire in Kansas City destroyed the building occupied by the National Paper company, estimating a loss of SIOO,OOO. Stephen A. Conklin, Emporia, Kas., failing in a reconciliation, shot and fatally wounded his divorced wife, wounded her mother and committed suicide. Congress of Disciples of Christ at Cleveland elected as president Professor James Hall of Butler College, Indianapolis, and decided to meet next year at Des Moines. Alfred Bayliss, superintendent of public instruction of Illinois, received from the directors of the late Paris exposition a diploma in honor of the school exhibit of the state. It is rumored that the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company, in retaliation for certain restrictions by the public authorities, contemplates withdrawing all surface cars from the Brooklyn bridge. The city council of Kewanee, 111., granted a franchise to the Galesburg and Oneida Electric Railway company to construct and operate a street railway system. The suits for damages for loss of life or injuries in the Park avenue tunnel collision at New York now aggregate nearly $1,800,000. Princeton won the eighth annual debate at Cambridge from Harvard. Harvard won every previous debate with The new steamer Oscar 11. of the Scandlnavian-America line has arrived at New York from Copenhagen. " *«ed 19, residing near Augsberg, 111., while plowing in a. Held was Struck by lightning and „ i&SH