Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 May 1902 — CONDENSED TELEGRAPHIC NEWS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CONDENSED TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

Edwin N. Requa, a business man of Kewanee, 111., committed suicide by Inbaling gas. Charles A. Hensel, a young farmer, is on trial at Princeton. 111., charged with murdering his wife. Lorenzo Faulkner, aged 30, a railroad man, shot his fvit'e dead and killed himself at Ogden, Utah. Louis Cunningham, a farmer, was kicked to death by Joseph Hubbard, with whom he had quarreled at Washington, Ind. Oliver Lamar, sentenced to life imprisonment for murder, was released from jail by a mob of his friends at Mendenhall, Miss. James Walsh, aged 21, of Chicago, head waiter on the Barry steamer Charles H. Hackley, was drowned at Muskegon, Mich., while yachting. Jason Wilson, a negro, and O. Carroll, a white man, engaged in a fighi at a baseoall game at Florence, Colo., and the former narrowly escaped lynching in the riot which followed. Mrs. William Highley and son were fatally injured by being struck by a Panhandle train at a crossing in Converse, Ind. In a fit of jealousy Frank Wilson Bhot and wounded his wife, killed Abner Canter and comiriitteed suicide at Arkansas City, Kan. A. G. Wright, publisher of the Milwaukee directory, estimates the population of the city as 308,000, an increase of 19,000 in two years. The condition of Rev. Dr. Palmer, the noted Presbyterian minister, who was injured in a trolley car accident several weeks ago at New Orleans, is critical.

Miss Margaret Floy Washburn, warden of Sage college. resigned from Cornell, having accepted a position as full professor of philosophy at the University of Cincinnati. Edward Swanston, an electric lineman of Paxton, 111., on his way home from Pittsburg, Pa., was probably fatally injured in an accident on the Belt railroad at Indianapolis. The new Archer line steamer Columbia arrived at New York after a good maiden voyage from Glasgow and Moville. It is the largest vessel yet built for the Anchor line. The Miners’ association of Manila will send a cablegram to the United States senate protesting against the shelving of the pending Philippine bill at recommended by the United States Philippine commission. The jury in the Bliss murder trial at Portage, Wis., brought in a verdict of guilty of manslaughter in the third degree. The defendant, Charles Bliss, was charged with wife murder. The dedication of the Ohio monuments in the Shiloh National Military park is set for June 6 and 7. Special rates have been arranged for a train leaving Cincinnati at 8:15 a. m. June 4. Guy Croffoth of Troy, Mont., was killed and Bridge Foreman Collins was badly injured in a work train wreck on the Jennings branch of the Great Northern just across the boundary line.

J. P. Miller, deputy sheriff of Stewart county, Tennessee, and his brother, C. J. Miller, were arrested at Hopkinsville, Ky., charged with making and passing counterfeit money. The former admitted his guilt. The agricultural department revised estimate of the 1901 grain yield places wheat at 748,460,218 bushels and corn at 1,622,519,891 bushels. A trust with 535,000,000 capital is to control the photographic business of the country is being formed by the Eastman Kodak company. C. F. W. Neely and Estes G. Rathbone, convicted of Cuban postal frauds are to be freed. The Cuban house granted amneßty to all Americans through efforts of their friends, and the senate will follow suit. Bishop Thobum of the Methodist Episcopal church in his testimony before the Senate committee said Hongkong is better governed than Chicago and that human life is safer there. Mr. Dubois of Idaho in a Senate speech on the Philippine bill said more money had been spent in the Philippine war than the island trade in 150 years will amount to. Congress is likely to remain in session till late in July. A vote on the Philippine bill is not probable till June. ' Admiral i>chley was initiated into the order of the Mystic Shrine at Washington. About 800 members were present. One thousand Brooklyn Hebrews started a rjot over high meat prices, jwTecked several butcher shops, and poured oil on meat after throwing it Into the streets. A Paris aeronaut has announced as the result of 285 ascents that warmer atmosphere exists above 37,000 feet. Rev. Dr. Newell Dwight Hillis, pastor of the Plymouth church, Brooklyn, and , his son, Richard, have sailed to Europe from Boston. William M. Jones, a former resident of Lincoln, Neb., was placed on trial in the recorder’s court in Detroit on the charge of murdering -Qegrge H. Hyewood, whose body was found on the sidewalk a short distance from his home early one morning in April.