Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1902 — CONDENSED TELEGRAPHIC NEWS [ARTICLE]

CONDENSED TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

At Jonesboro, Tenn., Samuel K. Tadlock, aged 70, died, and when his sister, Mrs. Nancy J. Good, went to look upon his face she sank down and died also. The sixty-one students expelled from the Southwestern Baptist university at Jackson, Tenn., made a written apology to the president and were reinstated. Rev. W. H. Pollett, pastor of a negro church at Emporia, Kan., shot and killed Isaiah Edmonston, one of the deacons. It is thought revival work unbalanced the preacher’s mind. At Greenville, Miss., Morris Rosenstock, a planter, closed a contract with Thomas R.- Morris of a Pittsburg company, to pick cotton from the'stalk in the field with machinery, the first case of the kind on record. Col. W. A. Tanner, head of a Minnesota mining syndicate, died suddenly. The spotted fever scourge in the Bitter Root Valley in Montana has resulted in eight deaths in a week. William W. Carr, a telegraph operator, was shot and killed by the accidental discharge of his shotgun near Endora, Kan. Near Dallas, Tex., James Clevinger was shot and killed by E. Clifton, who was in turn killed by an unknown man, who shot him through the heart. The bodies of Joseph Redding of Louisville and three negroes were taken from the City of Pittsburg wreck near Cairo, 111., making forty bodies removed to date. Williarh Price and Bernard Sutter were killed by an explosion of dynamite at Issaquah, Wash. There was not enough of Sutter’s remains left to hold an inquest. Michael Cherko, aged 38, was murdered at Freeland, Pa., during the progress of the Greek Easter services.,, George Smith under arrest, charged with the crime. Patrick Noonan was arrested at Helena, Mont., and brought back to his former home in Preston, Minn., to answer the charge of murdering John Skinner in 1874. Noonan was passing as James New and has been a fugitive for twenty-eight years. The Republican senatorial convention for the forty-third district will be held in Canton, 111., May 5. Efforts of non-union men to run street cars in Lima, Ohio, resulted in a riot, in which W. D. Green, a former employe of the company, was badly hurt. , Baltimore syndicate representatives at San Francisco have agreed on a number of concessions to the striking street car men and have forwarded them to New York for approval. The strike of union paper makers for shorter hours at the Winnebago paper mills, which has been on for fifteen weeks, was settled. The men will be given shorter hours. Machinists are leaving Brainerd, Minn., evidently having no hopes of a settlement of the strike. The feeling is that no adjustment is possible. The Northern Pacific officials are firm. At Paterson, N. J., the Dordoni Silk Dyeing company, employing about 100 men, acceded to the demands of the striking dye helpers and work was resumed at its plant. It is the third house to sign the new scale. L. H. Stephens, father of Congressman John H. Stephens, of the 13th Texas district, died at Amarillo, Tex. Officials of the Singer Manufacturing company of South Bend, Ind., have rejected an appeal of the striking employes for arbitration. Opposition to the re-election of President Shaffer is reported to be dying out. in the Amalgamated association convention at Wheeling, and it is now »aid to be probable that no one will ue earned to run against him. The Northern Pacific company has refused to grant the demands of the machinists at Brainerd, Minn., and the men have refused to return to work. The apprentices joined the strike, and it is reported that the national union will order a general strike. The directors of the United Railroads at San Francisco have referred the demands of the striking employes to the members of the directorate in New York. Employes of the Geary street line resumed work with the understanding that they will be granted the same concessions given by the United Railroads. Rev. W. F. McMillen of Chicago B spoke at the meeting of the Springfield t Association of Congregational churches, which closed at Bunker Hill, 111. Pacific coast tire losses in the first quarter of this year have been over SIOO,OOO more than in the same period of 1901. - Miss Anna Voldereur, a school teacher of Evansville, Ind., committed . suicide by taking carbolic acid. The British war office has shipped 100 miles of iron fence material to south Africa. It is intended to reenforce the blockhouse barbed-wire fences and stop the Boer cattle rushes. The coal and asphalt trustees of the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations have been instructed by the secretary of the interior to grant no more coal or asphalt leases until after the supplementary treaty now pending in Congres Is finally disposed of.