Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 June 1902 — CONDENSED TELEGRAPHIC NEWS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CONDENSED TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

Pug Ryan, said to have been the leader of a gang of desperadoes who killed two of a posse of officers several years ago, has been arrested at Cripple Creek, Col. He escaped from the Leadville jail recently with several other prisoners. He will be tried for murder. Edward Chapman, a farmer, was knocked from a trestle and instantly killed by a Northwestern train near Oskaloosa, lowa. , At Chillicothe, Mo., Harve Gibbons was shot and fatally wounded by his brother-in-law, John Galvin, the result of an old grudge. William T. Moore, a furniture dealer of Lowry City, Mo., was shot and fatally wounded by Thomas .1. Prosies, the result of a quarrel. Maggie Humphrey, a member of the “hay rack party” of high school pupils, who was injured in the runaway accident near Denver, is dead. At Lawrence, Kan., Mary Coop, a white woman, was killed by Charles Anderson, a negro restaurant employe. There were no witnesses to the crime. During a game of baseball at Bunker Hill, Pa., Pasquale Mohn and Antonio Parunni quarreled over a decision of the umpire, Parunni fatally shooting Mohn. Antonio Zambrana, the Costa Rican minister to Central America, is at present on a visit to President Zelaya of Nicaragua. A special horse train on the Big Four railroad was wrecked west of Bellefontaine, Ohio., killing Brakeman James Borden and severely injuring Engineer Daniel Kunkel and Fireman George Boyen. Emperor William has announced his intention to meet Queen Wilhelmina at Nieder Wesel, on the Rhine, when she is on her way to Castle Schaumberg in the valley of the Lahn, where she will pass the period A telegram from Postmaster General Payne to Secretary John M. True of the Wisconsin board of agriculture announces positively that President Roosevelt will spend Wednesday, Sept. 24, in Milwaukee, of her convalescence. Margaret Taylor, who was kidnaped from Cincinnati, 0., over four years ago, arrived in that city accompanied by her parents and her brother Edward, 3 years old. A special court assembled at Sligo, Ireland, under the crimes act, to try Patrick A. McHugh, M. P„ among a number of Irish leaguers, on the charge of conspiracy and intimidation In connection with the complaint of a tenant of a farm from which a leaguer had been evicted. Mr. McHugh did not appear and a bench warrant was irsued for his arrest. The rules of the St. Paul health department requiring the vaccination of children who attend the public schools were declared legal by the Minnesota supreme court. Fire destroyed the saw and planing mills of J. S. Bailey & Co. at McDonald, Ga., with 2,000,000 feet of lumber and seven freight cars. The loss is $150,000, with little insurance. C. J. Clay, a prominent planter of Lonoke county, Ark., was killed by a falling tree at his home. Almost complete returns from every eounty in Oregon give Chamberlain, Democrat, for governor 341 plurality. At the closing session of the sixth annual conference of the League of Wisconsin Municipalities Mayor Burt Williams of Ashland was chosen president. The Supreme Lodge of Mystic Workers of the World, in convention at Rockford, 111., adopted the reserve fund plan. Judge F. W. Holls of New York, who was formerly secretary to the American delegation to the peace conference at The Hague, will be received by Emperor William. Louis D’Auvignac, a brother of Mme. Humbert, who is concerned in the famous Humbert-Crawford lawsuit at Paris, has been arrested at Tunis. He hau been managing the Humbert property near Zaghwan, Tunis. Signor Riva, a professor of the University of Rome, and Count Gino Prinetti, a cousin of the Italian minister of foreign affairs, were killed in a landslide while ascending Mount Grig na, near Lake Lecco, Switzerland. Sir William James Richmond Cotton, Chamberlain of the City of London since 1892, is dead. He was Lord Mayor of London in 1875. Albert Weisenborn of Grand Rapids, Wis., committed suicide by shooting himself through the head while his wife was sitting on his lap. Furniture manufacturers at Grand Rapids decided by a vote of 10 to 6 that they would not go into the proposed furniture combine. John W. Baldwin, a leading politician, was arrested at Sedalia. Mo., charged with the murder of his brother-in-law, Samuel L. Lipscomb. Henry Besch, former register of St. JLouis, Was indicted, charged with accepting a bribe while in office. A warrant was issued for his arrest. The annual convention of the Travelers' Protective Association is in session at Portland. Ore. ■Hgw&jf&g, On }■ -‘-V ; rtr’JwW

The annual convention of the Western Federation of Miners at Denver adjourned, without date. Edward Boyce refused to serve as president and Charles Moyer of Lead, S. D., was elected. The family of Mr. Luvison, who were supposed to have been lost in a tornado near Sacramento, Neb., were found at a neighbor’s house. Mrs. Pennington and her daughter, who were injured seriously, are reported improving. The strike of the plumbers of Washington, which has been in force nine weeks, has ended. By the terms of the settlement there are to be two helpers to every three plumbers, and apprentices are to be counted as journeymen. Denver contractors refuse to take back any of the striking builders unless they agree to dissolve the building trades council. The men say they will not do this, and the situation now partakes of the nature of a lockout. Two full naphtha reservoirs and twenty-four boring shafts have been destroyed by fire at Romany,‘Russia. Plentiful rains in portions of South Australia and New South Wales have relieved the drouth and the outlook is now more hopeful. King Victor Emmanuel has presented Signor Giolitti, the Italian minister of the interior, with a life size portrait of himself in token of his esteem. Joseph Calvin, chief of police of David City, Neb., committed suicide by shooting himself. He was despondent because of failing health. Senor De Ojeda, the former Spanish minister to Morocco, has been gazetted minister to Washington in succession to the Duke de Arcos, who has been appointed minister to Belgium. B. J. De Cologan, former Spanish minister at Pekin, succeeds Senor De Ojeda at Tangiers. Dr. T. H. Storey, who disappeared from Duluth several weeks ago, has written to his wife from San Francisco that his mind has been a blank since leaving Duluth, and that he does not know how he reached California. At Austin, Texas, in a fit of jealousy, J. W. Waxier, a carpenter, cut his 15-year-old wife’s throat and then took his own life in the same manner. In Grant county, Ark., the 1-year-old child of J. E. Evans rolled from a bed. Its head was caught between the bed and a chair and the child was strangled to death. Charles Lewis, a member Qf a once prominent family in Buchanan county, Mo., was given a term of four years in the penitentiary for forging a check on the German-American Bank at St. Joseph, Mo. At the Wilburton coal mines, I. T., the 5-year-old child of Mrs. Nealy Warden was bitten by mine rats. It died soon after from loss of blood. Mrs. Bailey Bartlett, an original Daughter of the Revolution, is dead from pneumonia at Orange, N. J. Mrs. Sophia Gilman, aged 92, probably the oldest member of the Presbyterian church In southern Indiana, died at Evansville. Thepresident has nominated William B. Orear of Georgia, a contract surgeon in the United States army, to be assistant surgeon of volunteers with the rank of captain. Joseph Barth of Boonville and Robert Anderson of Blackwater, Mo., were killed and Engineer Mercer seriously hurt in a Missouri Pacific wreck at Nelson, Mo. Georgia Democratic primaries resulted in the nomination of J. M. Terrell for governor. A. S. Clay was renominated for United States senator for the four-year term. The dry kiln and carpenter shop of the factory of the Gould Manufacturing Company at Oshkosh, Wis., burned, causing $25,000 loss, on which there is $12,000 insurance. Two Illinois Central freight trains collided head-on between Galena and Portage, 111. Fireman Herbert Hart of Chicago was fatally scalded. William Simmons of Grayville, 111., while operating an edger in a sawmill was struck in the head by a piece of timber thrown back by the saw and fatally injured. The board of supervisors of La Crosse county, Wisconsin, voted to build a new courthouse which will cost when completed $135,000. An Issuance of bonds for that amount was provided. John F. Libbey, a farmer of Vinland, Wis., was fatally injured while building a fence. He was holding a stake while his son was driving it into the ground. The heavy maul slipped from the handle and struck Mr. Libbey on the forehead. A stranger aged about 45 years committed suicide by hanging while confined in the calaboose at Ludlow 111. Mrs. Belle Smith and her two small children were burned to death in their home at Hardin, Mo. Triple murder is suspected. The Rev. Henry Latham, master of Trinity Cambridge, is dead. He was born in 1821. Fire at Chetek, a summer resort near Chippewa Falls, Wis., caused a loss of $30,000. Colonel George R. Peck delivered the oration at the dedication of the new public library at Galesburg, 111. The library cost SBO,OOO, of which $50,*OO was given by Andrew Carnegie. A. J. Russell, speaker of the Mississippi house of representatives, who delivered the annual oration at the University of Mississippi Tuesday, was found dead in his room at Memphis. Death was caused by heart failure. Colombian revolutionists mined the town of Bocas ard blew up the government troops, who recaptured It. Colon and Panama are the only towns now controlled by the government. Street railway employes at Sheboygan, Wis., struck for higher wages and 1 all lines are tied up.