Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1902 — CONDENSED TELLGRAPHIC NEWS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CONDENSED TELLGRAPHIC NEWS

Dr. N. D. Hollis told the Plymouth Church congregation at Brooklyn that he was threatened with nervous prostration and would start for Europe. A committee may be appointed to carry on the duties abandoned by Lewis Nixon, the Tammany leader.

Miss Julia Williams of Detroit died at the Fifth Avenue hotel, New York, from an overdose of strychnine pills. The striking coal miners at Hazleton took oath in the Catholic church to abstain from liquor. Father Phillips urged the men to stand together during the strike. The foreign commerce bureau report that American shoe imports into India increased 400 per cent in 1901; cotton piece imports also increased. The Chicago Federation of Labor started an attack on the national body by proposing to issue local charters. Bishop William Kenney was consecrated in the old cathedral at St. Augustine, Fla., Cardinal Gibbons officiating.

George Shirley of Pittsburg, under restraint at Louisville, attempted to commit suicide by driving an eightpenny nail into his head. George Taylor, colored, who died at Louisville, is said to have been 102 years old, and to have belonged to President Zachary Taylor. Miss Elizabeth Sturen, teacher of German at Cleveland, was thrown from a carriage in a runaway accident and probably fatally injured. Private Frank L. Farris, serving in the headquarters building at the military academy at West Point, was killed. He got out of the way of a freight only to be struck by a passenger train. Herman Smith, a former member of the Indiana legislature, fatally shot Roy Lassiter, a farmer, near Abote, Ind., Mrs. Lassiter accused Smith of insulting her. *" At the state normal oratorical contest between Illinois and Wisconsin, at Bloomington, 111., the former won. William Kephart of Atlanta, 111., won first prize in the interscholastic oratorical contest at Urbana, IJI. At the Central Oratorical League contest at Delaware, Ohio, Ohio Wesleyan won first, Indiana second and West Virginia third. Franklin, Ind., has a child with four living great grandmothers and one great grandfather. The child is Anna Marguerite, the infant daughter of Virgil Whitesides.

L. B. Moore of Bristol, Tenn., whose son was killed by a falling telephone pole, got judgment against the telephone company for $5,000. John Jacobson, his wife and infant child were burned to death and William Snyder, a clerk, and another of the Jacobson children, aged 6, were seriously burned in a fire in the living rooms over Jacobson’s implement store at Laurel, Neb. Page Bennett, a pensioner, 63 years old, committed suicide by hanging himself in his barn at Washington, Ind. Henry Dumprope. aged 18, was convicted of manslaughter at Emporia, Kas. He killed a man named Crowley.

The board of managers of Missouri insane asylum No. 4 decided that July 1 is too early to open the asylum, and that the date be set for September 1. The lowa State Federation of Labor adopted a resolution condemning President Roosevelt because of his rrder forbidding employes of the government to seek to influence legislation in their own interests. General Charles Dick was renominated for Congress by acclamation by Republicans of the nineteenth Ohio district in convention at Warren. Henry Clay Evans, who has just re- , tired as commissioner of pensions, took the oath of office as consul general at London. He will leave for his new post early in June. Joseph Coleman of Foulkton, S. D., charged with the murder of his brother Edward, to secure SIO,OOO insurance on the latter’s life, has been held to the circuit court without bail. A washout cn the Colby branch of the Union Pacific railroad caused a freight wreck in which George Regneir, engineer, was killed and the fireman and two brfckemen were badly scalded. It is reported In Panama that Gen. Alfaro, the former president of Ecuador, is preparing a revolutionary movement against President Plaza of the republic. The case against Mrs. Carrie Nation for joint-smashing came to trial at Topeka, Kan., and was dismissed on a technicality. George Thomas, aged 26 years, son of a prominent farmer of paradise, 111., was caught in the machinery of a sawmill and killed. Miss Pearl Netherwood of Oregon, Wis., was fatally hurt by having her neck fractured in a scuffle with her brother. Between 200 and 300 Detroit bakers ,struck following an ultimatum to the master bakers demanding that employers rescind an order that all ped dlers of bread should quit the union. 'Recognition of the union is also de.manded.