Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1902 — CONDENSED TELEGRAPHIC NEWS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CONDENSED TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

Mrs. H. Yates of Ontario, Canada, ■was burned to death at Mountain [View, 0. T., while attempting to start a fire with kerosene. Eight .companies interested in the Bath County, Kentucky, oil fields will construct a pipe line to the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad. This will put on the market about 1,200 barrels of oil daily. Major James P. Nelson of Lexington, Ky., assistant engineer of the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad, has accepted the position of chief engineer of the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac railroad. Thomas MacCarthy, who went over the Kankakee river dam at Kankakee, 111., in the presence of 3,000, people, on a wager, dislocated his shoulder and was arrested for violating the ordinance against daylight bathing. A brick cottage at 274 Sheffield avenue, Chicago, collapsed and buried the family of Aleck De Mar; Mrs. De Mar shielded her baby and was badly hurt. The others Were slightly injured.

A freight wreck on the Lake Shore railroad at Ninetieth street, Chicago, injured seven men, most of whom were stealing a ride. A coupling pin broke and the rear section piled up. Cleveland officials, who photographed money in their effort to obtain evidence in an alleged bribery case are to be prosecuted by the government under the law prohibiting photographing of money. Samuel Hendricks, a widely known fisherman and hunter, was drowned In the Rock river at Sterling, 111. Snow fell for twenty-four hours at Evanston, Wyo., and in the mountains it lies on the ground to a depth of three to six inches. The mercury fell to freezing point. Martha White of Des Moines, la., colored, was curelly assaulted and cut with a knife by her lover, Sam Whitney, also colored. William A. Reynolds, an attache of the country form, was found dead in his wagon in Grand Rapids, Mich., under circumstances indicating murder. He went to town with considerable money and was seen to enter the alley with a stranger. His right arm and side were badly lacerated as though he had been hit with a club, and his pockets were empty. He was 60 years old. Music teachers’ national convention is in session at Put-in-Bay, Ohio, with 600 delegates in attendance. Otto Scholtz and Jacob Friesenborg, who recently came from Germany, were drowned at Watseka, 111., by the capsizing of a boat. The report of the consular district of Berlin shows that the exports to North America for the last quarter for that district were over $1,600,000, an increase of $200,000. The Paris Figaro intimates that coming changes in the French diplomatic service may possibly include the transfer of Jules Cambon, the French ambassador at Washington, to Berlin. Hundreds of cattle imported from southwest Texas are being driven out of the Indian Territory by the Indian police, acting, it is said, upon orders from the Interior Department. The steam yacht Yacona purchased from the king of Portugal by Henry Clay Pierce of St. Louis, has arrived at Boston to await its new owner, who will cruise along the coast and visit Labrador. A continuance was refused in the case of Superintendent of Police Fred W. Ames, charged at Minneapolis with bribery. Captain N. W. King of the detective force, convicted of accessory after the fact to a felony, was sentenced to three years and six months at hard labor in the penitentiary.

Earthquakes are reported to have occurred simultaneously in twenty towns of Asia Minor. Many houses collapsed. The German government has sent to the bundesrath a draft of the decree making tjie meat law effective in April, 1903. The bundesrath will act on the issue July 3. A march called “The Parade March of the Marine Division,” composed by Admiral Prince Henry of Prussia, has been brought out by a publisher of Leipsig. The St. Petersburg students arrested last March at the time of the student disorders and sentenced to imprisonment for two or three months are now returning to their homes. About 1,500 Canadian troop 3 sailed from Durban, Natal. Two thousand additional Canadians will start for home on July 12. Governor Bettß reports perfect peace in the province of Albay, Philippine Islands, and that commercial interests were never in a more prosperous condition. The Mexican minister has presented his credentials to President Palma at Havana. At a meeting of the stockholders of the German Atlantic Cable company in Berlin the proposition of the directors to issue 20,000,000 marks in bonds to lay a second cable between Germany and the United States war

Worth American turnerbund national convention reports show 257 local societies with 84,708 members, and that the socialism propaganda failed. Richard A. Canfield, "king of American gamblers,” denied that he will start an American Monte Carlo at Saratoga, declaring such a venture would not be tolerated. The wife and 7-year-old daughter of Capt. Siemann N. Horn of Fort Hancock, N. Y., were drowned off Sandy Hook by a sailboat capsizing. The husband and four others were rescued. Mrs. Francis Batcheller of Boston coaxed ner husband to close his factory and take her to Europe to study voice culture, and 1,200 persons are out of work as a result.

Many college students, who were given summer work by the United States government as foresters, are paid $25 a month and board for surveying timber tracts. English stewards from the Cunard steamer Saxonia tore down an American flag at Boston. Persons who saw the act attacked and beat them. A New York mob tried to lynch two negroes who had stabbed a boy. The police reserves were called out and rescued them. Montana’s capitol at Helena was formally turned over to the state by the building Commission. Mrs. R. J. Seney and her daughter Alpha were killed at a crossing at Sioux City, la., by a Milwaukee train. H. L. Hurlbut, a Boston hotel man, committed suicide at Seattle by taking morphine. The motive is not known. W. A. Ross, a school teacher of Thomasville, Ohio, was drowned while trying to reach home during a storm. Miss Elizabeth Daniels, aged 25, a well known young woman of Jacksonville, 111., dropped dead of heart disease as she lelt the dinner table. Thirty thousand persons at Sycamore, 111., take part in ceremony of marking grave of Abner Powers, one of five revolutionary soliders buried in this state. George Powers was fatally hurt and Mrs. Salaeb and Mrs. Denean were seriously wounded in a Fourth of July fight in the Syrian quarters at Fort Wayne. Organized iron molders of New York and vicinity announce that they have gained a peaceful victory, 2,220 of their number having been granted the nine-hour day through oflicials. The steamer Senator arrived at Port Townsend, Wash., from Nome, reports no tidings of the missing steamers Jaenie and Portland. Mathias Vanderlasek, a machinist, jumped from a St. Paul bridge, 200 feet, into the Mississippi river, and sustained only slight injuries. Paul Saulsman of Lee’s Summit, Mo., was knocked down and killed, and M. J. McGlynri, his employer, was struck twice and seriously hurt by an unknown man at Kansas City. Fire at Philadelphia caused $200,000 loss, the woolen and cotton yarn firms of James E. Mitchell & Co., William d’Olier & Co. and Buckingham & Paulson being the heaviest sufferers. Rev. C. R. Schermerhorn, near Coldwater, Mich., while using gasoline to rid his hen house of lice accidentally set fire to a can of the fluid, and in throwing it out of the building, fatally burned his 8-year-old son.

Two inches of snow fell in the Coeur d’Alene region in Idaho. August Schievie was hanged at St. Helena, Ore., for the murder of Joseph Schulkowski, on Dec. 26. Secretary of the Treasury Shaw has sent a silver medal to Captain Fred Johnson of Chicago for gallant service in saving lives Nov. 12, 1900. One of the greatest shipments of coal that ever started for the South was begun at Pittsburg. It comprises fully 10,000,000 bushels. The Nebraska Supreme Court rendered an opinion affirming the constitutionality of the female labor law enacted by the last legislature. During a dance at the home of Judge W. S. Pettit in I’awhuska, Okla., George Dickie, an Osage graduate of Carlisle, was killed by Pettit. Dickie had been drinking. Alma and Ada Kilgas, 10 and 8 years old, near Reynolds, Ind., were drowned by stepping into a washout while crossing a field covered with water. A log jam on the St. Croix river near Grantsburg, Wis., contains 50,000,000 feet of logs and is nine miles long. One hundred drivers are breaking it.

Archer Wade, 23 years of age, shot and fatally wounded James Owens at Martinsville, Ind. It is alleged that Owens was jealous of Wade’s attentions to his wife. The world-wide convention of the International Sunday School association probably will be held in Jerusalem in 1904. Edwin and Thomas Balch of Philadelphia are in St. Petersburg for the purpose of collecting information and material with regard to the boundaries of Alaska. Charley Wee, a Chinese laundryman, has been arrested in Buffalo in connection with the murder of Mary Murphy, 6 years old, whose body, badly mangled, was found wrapped in newspapers in a pond in a cemetery. The autopsy showed the child had been outraged and strangled. George Sperling of Graham, Mo., and George Bates of San Francisco were killed by lightning on a ranch near Arvada. Col. It is estimated that the deficit in the German budget for 1901-’O2 will amount tc $8,000,000. The Colorado supreme court has declared the city of Donver to be entitled to the $2,000,000 willed it by George W. Clayton for the founding of the Clayton college for boys. Governor Bliss of Michigan has given $21,000 to Albion College to apply on the debt of $93,000