Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 April 1902 — CONDENSE TELEGRAPHIC NEWS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CONDENSE TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

Not <mo life can be pane In tt> purpose and strong in ita strife, and all life not be .purer and stronger thereby—Owen Meredith.

Miners at Brazil, Ind., rejected the ultimatum of the operators to pay last year’s scale, provided the miners removed the cob and slate from the entry, and the matter will be referred to the national board. Over 6,000 miners and operators are idle. The Combined Locks Paper Company at Kaukauna, Wls., has granted the short-hour schedule demanded by the men. The employes of the Thilmany and Outagamie mills will strike unless they are granted the same schedule. Mrs. Jane G. Alexander, aged 78, is dead at her home at Houston, Tex. She was one of the pioneers of Texas, going there in 1835, ania had lived under four dags. Her death was caused by injuries received in a fall some weeks ago. In a fight between John H. Ott and Ed Robbins, two railroad employes, at Wellington, Kan., the latter struck Ott on the head with a shovel, inflicting injuries which caused his death. John Gondolfo, proprietor of the People’s bakery, at Dubuque, la., has filed a petition in bankruptcy. Liabilities, $16,200; assets, nothing. His largest creditor is the German bank, $8,555. J. M. Kennedy, a demented newspaper man and formerly publisher of the Daily Oil Bulletin, died at Beaumont, Texas. Richard Bayless, aged 19, rescued nine men from a burning mine at Joplin, Mo., risking his own life in the feat. Charles M. Ford, a military prisoner, while trying to escape from Fort Thomas, Ky., was shot and instantly killed by a guard. W. J. Carton, aged 62, said to be a wealthy merchant of Utica, N. Y., was killed in a runaway accident at Colorado Springs. , Ex-Comptroller of the Tresaury Dawes was the principal speaker at the annual dinner of the Detroit Bankers’ Club. The Buffalo Express is authority for the statement that the physicians who attended President McKinley will receive not to exceed $25,000. Between $10,000,000 and $15,000,000 of the wonting capital the United States Steel Corporation will raise by the sale of $15,000,000 additional bonds will be spent in centralizing the pipe and tube plants of the trust. Fire in the Empire Hotel, a St. Louis lodging-house, endangered the lives of forty guests, several of whom had narrow escapes from suffocation. The Beaver Dam woolen mills were sold at public auction for $30,960. The purchasers say the mills will be reopened at once. The plant was bought by local and Chicago men. The dock laborers at Flume, Hungary, have again struck for an increase of wages, and work at that port is practically at a standstill. A number of vessels there are unable to unload their cargoes. The three missing tourists of the party of four who recently attempted to ascend the Rax Alps in lower Austria, have been discovered, half-frozen, but alive. The fourth member of the expedition was found dead. The crew of the British ship Maxwell, from San Francisco tor Hull, whiclv sank eight miles southwest of ■Dungeness lightship, has been landed at Bremerhaven by the German steamer Patagonia, from Bahai. The Patagonia collided with and sank the Maxwell in a fog. and succeeded in taking off the latter’s crew before the ship sank.

Henry Cummings of New York, who supervised the arrangements for the flora] decorations on the Deutschland during Prince Henry’s return trip, said that $6,000 worth of flowers were used to decorate the cabins. The electric linemen of Pittsburg and Allegheny have struck for an Increase of pay from $2.50 to $3 tor a nine-hour day. About 500 men are out. Four hundred and fifty carpenters have struck at St. Joseph. Mo., for a minimum wage scale of 37% cents an hour instead of 30 cents, as at present. The stationary engineers of the Amalgamated mines at Butte, Mont., struck. Nino properties ate tied up and over 3,000 men thrown out of work. Complete returns from the election at Des Moines give James Brenton, Republican, for mayor, 7,026 votes, against 6,026 for J. Hartbrowcr, Democrat. x x . A violent scene took place ifi the colonial legislature at St. Johus, N. F.. between the minister of finance, E. Jackman, and Mr. Morine, the leader of the opposition. "Mean, dirty liar.’' “scoundrel,” “blackguard” and “coward” were among the epithets exchanged between the two men. The house of representatives of the federal parliament at Mlbourne fixed the duty on wines exceeding 3f degrees of strength at 6 pence on every degree up to and including 40 degrees Thereafter the duty will be 14 shillings.