Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1902 — CONDENSED TELEGRAPHIC NEWS [ARTICLE]

CONDENSED TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

Memorial services were held at Madison, Wis., for Charles Kendall Adams, former president of the state university. Colonel W. F. Vilas and others paid high tribute to his work as an educator. Carter Glass of Lynchburg was nominated for congress by Democrats of the sixth Virginia district. George E. Greenfall. George Parker and George Mason were killed by a gas explosion at Aquillar, Colo. C. Shaffner, a Chicago lawyer with a summer home at Twin Lakes, Wis., was fined $25 and costs for killing deer out of season. The large cigar factory of Ward & Co. at Pontiac, Mich., was destroyed by fire, with a loss of $70,000 and insurance of $54,000. Harry and Walter Bird, Chicago boys who started west to make their fortunes, are in jail in Kansas City, charged with robber^. John Davis and an unidentified man were probably fatally and Motorman John McNary seriously injured by a Vandalia train striking a street car at Terre Haute, Ind. Marjorie E. Hoysradt, aged 20, and Edward Doyle, aged 5, were killed and twenty-five injured in a collision on the Albany and Hudson Electric railway near Hudson, N. Y. The Shenango tin plate mill at Newcastle, Pa., the largest Oi its kind In the world, shut down for an indefinite period. Officials say It is due to market stagnation and not In retaliation for refusal of the men to accept a wage cut. The postoffice at Beulah, Kan., was robbed of S7OO. The safe-blowers escaped. The Arkansas revenue agent Is preparing to take drastic measures to compel lawyers to pay occupation tax. Charles Varble of Louisville, Ky., aged 22, was ground to pieces by a south-bound Monon freight train in the company’s yards at Lafayette, Ind.

An American engaged in mining in Sonora says Mexican army officers are exterminating the Yaquis without provocation, and that foreign investors are afraid to talk about the butcheries. He says 161 Yaqui women, children and old men were slaughtered near Mazattan, Mex. Less rain has fallen in Alabama during the past three months than in any other similar period since 1839. The property of the Waukesha Springs Company was sold to F. J. R. Mitchell of New York for $54,000. George W. Brann, aged 28, an abstractor of titles, of Rushville, Ind., accidentlly killed himself with a rifle while on a camping expedition. The coroner’s jury investigating the Lehigh Valley Railroad wreck in Rochester, N. Y., in which one was killed and a score injured, charges criminal negligence to Conductor Frank De La Vergne and Engineer Daniel Connolly. D. E. Schackelton, a member of the British labor party, has been elected to th% house of comons without opposition to fill the vacancy in the seat for the Clitheree division of Lancashire, caused by the elevation to the peerage of Sir Ughtred James KayShuttleworth, who sat for the division as a liberal. lowa’s executive council has increased the railroad assessment of the state $4,041,656, making the total $51,112,814. Miss Hattie Puelicher defeated George Brown in a swimming match across Powers Lake, Wisconsin, a distance of a mile and a half. > Queen Maria Christiana, mother of King Alfonso, accompanied by the Infanta Maria, left Madrid for Vienna Frank Williamson of Des Moines, lowa, wa3 killed while attempting to get off an incoming Northwestern fast freight train in Milwaukee. Williamson had been stealing a ride and in jumping he fell under the wheels, which cut off his legs. Half a block on the river front was destroyed aryd two children badly burned by fire in Glenwood Springs, Col. Asa Messer shot and killed William Simpson during a quarrel near Barboursville, Ky. Daniel Farley, colored, was hanged at Memphis for the murder of his wife July 23, 1901. Alonzo Scarrberry and Faris Castle were struck by lightning and instantly killed during a storm at Inez, Ky. At Charleston, W. Va., W. H. Hardwick was sentenced to be hanged Oct 31 for criminal assault April 15 last on <a girl aged 12 years. A kiln containing about 20,000 feet of clear lumber was burned at the Bayou Lumber Company’s plant, at Camden, Ark. F. J. Flannigan, a tailor, residing at Caldwell, Kas., fell from the blind .baggage on a Denver and Rio Grande (train, receiving probably fatal injuries. Stockmen intending to make an exhibit at the coming lowa state fair, Aug. 22 to 30, should write S. B. Packard, Marshalltown, lowa, superintendent of the cattle department of the fair, stating* the number of stalls they desire tor their exhibit

The Centennial flour mills at Bpokane, Wash., with a daily capacity at 700 barrels of flour and 200 barrels of cereal foods, was destroyed by Bre. The loss is estimated at $85,000. Robert Knight met “Spot” Murphy, t former pugilist, in the road at Lewlsburg, Ind. They quarreled and Knight killed Murphy by shooting film. Knight then climbed into his buggy with his family and drove home. Thirty naphtha boring platforms at Romany, Russia, have been destroyed by fire. King Carol of Roumania, who has arrived at Ischl, upper Austria, has been warmly greeted by Emperor Francis Joseph. Archduchess Elizabeth, youngest sister of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir presumptive to the throne of Aus-tria-Hungary, soon will be betrothed to Prince Peter Alkantara, grandson of the late Dom Pedro of Brazil. Despondent because of illness, Joseph Podawoski stabbed his wife and 12-year-old daughter and committed suicide at El Reno, O. T. Because his wife had left him, Pleas Pitzer, a negro, shot and killed Robert Brooks, his father-in-law, and his daughter and fatally wounded another sister of his wife near Brinkley, Ark. The strike of the Building Trades’ council at Burlington, lowa, was settled by arbitration, the men agreeing to return to work with union or nonanion men, and the boycott against the Gilbert Hedge Lumber company, where the original trouble started, is lifted. Two hundred and fifty men were involved. Representatives of the American Steel Hoop Company and the officials of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tinplate Workers met at Pittsburg to go over several foot notes to the wage scale. At Atlantic City conferences with officials of the American Flint Glass Workers’ Union resulted in a 10 per cent advance in wages of the eastern shademakers and 8 per cent advance in the castor branch. The pressed ware and paste mold conferees disagreed. Henry Roose & Co., stockbrokers at London, failed. Their business was small and the liabilities are inconsiderable.

Orville Osborne, 19 years old, shot a robber at Varck, Kan., a town northwest of Joplin, Mo. Three robbers entered the store of S. B. Osborne and ordered young Osborne to throw up his hands. Instead the lad opened fire and the men fled. One of them was shot in the thigh and was so badly wounded that he had to be assisted in his escape by his pals. Carlos Zaldo, secretary of state of Cuba, has arrived in New York and proceeded immediately to Liberty, N. Y., where his wife is seriously ill. Governor Gota of the province of Formosa, Japan, has visited Ellis Island, New York, to study American methods of excluding Chinese immigrants. Japan is said to be preparing to adopt an exclusion act against Chinese. An oil gusher, the first in many tests in the Flat River Valley, in Manitoba, was encountered at a depth of 400 feet. It is throwing up 300 barrels of oil a day. The oil, It is claimed, surpasses that of Toxas in that 75 per cent is natural Illuminating oil, while the refuse is a good quality of lubricator. W. L. Barbour has been nominated for Congress by the Republicans of the sixth New Jersey district. James K. Hackett, at Paris, has negotiated with Jane Hading and her company for a French season of twenty weeks in the United States. Mme. Hading and her company will open in New York next November and visit the principal cities oi the country. Halver Johnson of Gilman, 111., fell under a binder and was dragged along the field, breaking his neck. He was 80 years old. William D. Crawford, who is under arrest at Canton, 0., suspected of the murder of Vincent Hill, whose body was found in the Barnett house, confessed to haying robbed the dead man of S6O in money while alone in the room. He emphatically denies the charge of murder. The 3-year-old daughter of John Khoury of Iron Mountain, Mich., while playing with matches was severely burned. A burning match set fire to her dress and when her mother reached her she was a mass of flames. The mother’s hands were terribly burned taking off the burning olothes. Miss Mabel Wells of Monticello, Minn., and Eva Sasker and Laura T. Tye, both of Faribault, were drowned in Lake Jefferson, Le Seuer county. The boat capsized during a storm. Professors Bingham and Hanson of Minneapolis were with them, but could not save them.

The camp meeting of the Advent church of Illinois and other states will be held in Mendota, 111., from Aug. 16 to 26. Dr. Zay Little, aged 31, died at Rosemond. 111. The stokers and helpers at the Evansville Gas and Electric Light company at Evansville, Ind., went on a strike. They demand $2 and 32.26 per day. They are now receiving $1.50 and $1.90 per day. Henry Oarlock, aged 71 years, a pioneer, died at Ramsey, IIL Henry Campbell, a farmer, living four miles northwest of Sycamore, 111., committed suicide by shotting himself. He was 38 years of age and leaves a wife and one child. Goldie Lake, aged 10, who was kidnaped, it is claimed, by Mrs. Peter Rasmus, her grandmother, from the Auburn Children’s Home at Cincinnati three years ago, has been found at Youngstown, Ohio, after being traced to Detroit, through Canada and back to Ohio. r.