Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 May 1902 — CONDENSED TELEGRAPHIC NEWS [ARTICLE]

CONDENSED TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

Henry Brown, aged eighty-four, a prominent resident, committed suicide at Pana, 111., by taking strychnine. The milling firm of Hill Brothers went into bankruptcy at South Bend. The liabilities are $59,029.47 and tho assets $52,077. Mr. and Mrs. Jacob B. Harmon, who live near Benton Harbor, Mich., celebrated anniversary of their marriage. George H. Moody, aged thirty-five, of Hollister, Ohio, and Wilbert H. Miller, aged sixty-five, of Herr’s Island, Pa., were killed by a Baltimore and Ohio train near Cincinnati. Passenger train No. 16 on the Lake .Shore road struck and instantly killed •Holly Hogle, aged eighteen; Louis Mohr, aged sixteen, and Guerney Gill, aged seventeen, near Swanton, Ohio. The Chicago Federation of Labob will ask the legislature tfi stop employment of women at machines where they may be maimed. They want the club women to aid. Sam Moy, king of Chinatown, was Iburied at Rosehill, Chicago. The 'crowd about the grave prevented the 'Chinese from performing burial rites .and carried off incense sticks as relics. Dr. Edward Everett Hale said that man controls 1,000 times more physical power than 100 years ago and that the work of the new century will be done better. Daniel G. Ried of the tin plate company paid $8,050 for Cardiff and Wales, carriage horses, at a Chicago auction sale. Henry O. Havemeyer has just given 2,000 volumes to the library of the public school at Greenwich, Conn., erected by himself and his wife as a memorial. The business section of Norfolk, Va., was damaged $125,000 by fire, The tobacco factory of L. W. Davis was destroyed and the Dispatch newspaper office was among the buildings destroyed. The Army Relief Society of the .United States has elected Mrs. Daniel S. Lamont as its president. A den of rattlesnakes was unearthed •lx miles southeast of Patoka, 111., and 200 were killed, some measuring 5 and ■6 feet in length. Members of the Waukegan police force are in an anxious state for fear they will be discharged for allowing gambling to exist. The mayor made a clean sweep of gambling when he assumed office, but lately several gambling houses have been operating on the quiet.

Under the new law every North Carolina voter who failed to pay his poll tax Is disfranchised for this year. Several thousand white men failed to pay the tax. Charles Bright, the American engineer charged with concealing $500,000 of his assets in connection with bankruptcy proceedings, was committed for trial at the next sessions of the Old Bailey Court at London. A detachment of soldiers belonging to the troops of General Yuan Shi Kai, the Governor of Chi Li Province, recently lost sixty men killed while attempting to quell an anti-indemnity uprising near the border of Honan Province. Prince George of Prussia is dead. He was born Feb. 12, 1826, and was a general of cavalry. The Danish landsthing will not ratify the treaty with the United States on the sale of the West Indies until after a plebiscite is taken on the islands. The President ordered another courtmartial to meet in Samar to try Major Glenn, accused of ordering the water . ,«ure administered, and such other officers as may be ordered before it. The Central Trust and Safe Deposit Company of Cincinnati was appointed receiver for the firm of Howell, Gano and Company, whose liabilities are stated to be $68,000 and assets, SBB,000. Conrad Lueder, who claimed to be a brother of Baroness E. von Bergen of Germany, has disappeared from Johnson City, Tenn., leaving letters stating he intended to commit suicide. The Spanish government proposes to construct 6,000 kilometers of narrow gauge road at a total cost of $48,250,000, the state guaranteeing 4 per pent. Crazed by the death of her three-year-old child last March, Mrs. Adeline Sage of Detroit committed suicide by pouring kerosene over herself and Igniting it The “full crew bills,” requiring that no passenger train shall be run with less than four men and no freight train with less than five men, passed .the Ohio senate and are now laws. Enos Riley, aged eighty-two, a pio■>neer, was killed near Avoca, lowa, by a Rock Island passenger train as he was crossing a bridge. Professor Rolfe of the University of Michigan has accepted the professorchip of philology in the University of Pennsylvania. The Indiana Supreme Court in a test •case from Indianapolis hits the 3-cent fare law,' holding the street car company's charter valid. Cardinal Martinelll, apostolic deleigate to tha United States, has be# recalled te Rome by the Pope,

Tw» hundred and fifty fishermen are 5 reported to have been drowned In h gale which has made havoc of the herring fishing fleet on the west coast of Japan. The Japanese cruiser Musashi was driven ashore, but her crew were saved. In the Island Of Marinduque Inspector Brown has captured six cannon in good condition and 200 iron cannon balls. Reports from Seoul, Korea, declare that the Japanese representative there is pressing the Korean government for compensation for the Japanese subjects who have been killed In recent years on the peninsula by Koreans. Half of the town of Bobruisk in the province of Minsk, Russia, has been destroyed Dy fire. Don Carlos, the Spanish pretender, has been summoned owing to the attempt of his daughter, PHncess Beatrice de Berrone, to commit suicide by throwing herself into the Tiber. Another riot occurred at Coimbra, in the province of Beira, Portugal, during which the police fired their revolvers at the students. Charles Burpee, county treasurer at Neillsville, Wis., fell dead while dancing. Reports show that the boll weevil, which did such great damage to the cotton crop in south Texas during the past half a dozen years, have appeared in only a few localities and the hopes of farmers have been greatly raised in consequence. W. Q. Richards has bought the Moon ranch in the Panhandle of Texas from J. R. Gray, paying $3.25 cash an acre for 34,625 acres. Last May Richards paid $1.75 an acre for the land. The 'corner stone of the new $50,000 Carnegie library at Houston, Tex., was laid with much ceremony. At Crawford, Tex., a whisky seller named Terrell attacked and seriously beat Rev. S. P. Brown, whom he suspected of having had him arrested. Terrell stood off the people with threats of killing. Fire in a lumber yard at Terrell, Tex., caused a loss of $13,000, partially covered by insurance. August Nolte, a wealthy farmer, committed suicide by hanging himself in his barn in Morgan county, Missouri. President Roosevelt, in speech at a Washington banquet, said the army and navy had placed the American flag in the Philippines, and it would stay there. Major Cornelius Gardener will be court-martialed on failure to sustain his charges against Philippine military rule. At Valparaiso William Earnest, a prominent young farmer, was killed in a runaway. His companion escaped unhurt. He was 38 years old and leaves a family. Joseph Seifert, charged with complicity in the death of Miss Arietta Dwiggins, was found guilty at Richmond, Ind. He was fined SSO and must serve from three to fourteen years in the state prison. The Gurnigel-Bad, a famous health resort near Thun, Switzerland, was destroyed by fire. The church alone escaped. There were no fatalities. The season had not begun, and the establishments were unoccupied. Fully 500 building contractors of Cleveland have declared war on all trades labor organizations in that city. Both sides have been preparing for the contest, which promises to be a bitter one. Two thousand carpenters and 500 plumbers employed in Buffalo are on strike. The carpenters demand 371-2 cents an hour. They now get 30 cents. The plumbers want an advance from $3 to $3.50 a day. The forty-eighth district Democratic senatorial convention on the fifth ballot nominated H. Munday of Mount Carmel and Carl Busse of Lawrenceville for representatives in the general assembly.

The pope has decided to hold a consistory earlier than he previously intended. It will now be held in the latter half of May. No new cardinals will be created and only a few bishops will be appointed! Jacob Schaefer, the champion billiard player, in a match with Julius A. Dorgan, the Hungarian expert, broke the world’s record at 18-inch balk-line billiards, held by himself, by making a run of 148 points. The American Smelting and Reduction Works at Helena, Mont., have been closed indefinitely because of a strike order issued by the Mill and Smelter Men’s Union, whose demand for recognition was refused. Captain John Byrne, for several years master of the steamer Owego of the Union Steamboat Line, died at Buffalo after an illness of two months. Jde is survived by a widow and daughter. The Stark County Republican convention instructed for A. J. Hopkins for senator, Joseph W. Graff for con-

gressman and James E. Noyes for representative from the thirty-seventh district. General Sir William Olpherts, V. C., who gained the sobriquet of Jack” at Lucknow, is dead. A general strike of carpenters is expected at Hartford, Conn., because the Master Builders’ Association refuses to grant $3 as the minimum wage and an eight-hour day. Detective Patrick Duffy of Chicago was shot and killed by one of two men supposed to be thieves with whom he was talking. New gold fields of amazing richness are said to have been discovered under the tundra along the Bering coast. Lewis Young, colored, was hanged in the penitentiary at Moundsyllle, W. Va., for the murder of Arthur Kell at Welch In a quarrel over a girl. Count von Waldersee, in a Dresden interview, said the United States will exercise good Influence on world politics.