Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 August 1902 — CONDENSED TELEGRAPHIC NEWS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CONDENSED TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

Watkins Newman, a prominent citizen near Jefferson City, Tenn., ,waa robbed, murdered and his home fired. Rev. Father J. H. Delaney of St Patrick’s church of Fort Wayne has been appointed irremovable rector by Bishop Wording. Herman, son of David N«iser, a wealthy man residing near Auburn, 111., was beheaded by being caught in a belt while repairing a break in his father’s thrasher. J. C. Sturgis, a blacksmith of Kansas City, Mo., finding Albert Hayes, a boarder, in company with his wife, shot both with a shotgun. Mrs. Sturles will probably recover. Hayes may die. The Assumption day collection of Peter's pence in all the chbrches of Rome aggregated only $5,000, much less than had been expected. James R. Keene and former Congressman Jefferson M. Levy of New York are passengers on the Cunard line steamer Lucania, which sailed from Liverpool for New York. Fire destroyed the large dry goods store of T. V. Howell & Son and Hicks’ stationery store at Hamilton, Ohio, and damaged the Second National bank building. Loss $250,000. John Burns, aged 36 years, who was born in Palmyra, Mo., and who recently worked in Hannibal at the barber’s trade, committed suicide by cutting his throat with a razor in St. Mary’s hospital at Quincy, 111. He was In the last stages of consumption. John Warren was hanged at Groesbeck, Tex., for the murder of Doc Stevens, a storekeeper, whose head was split open while he slept. Robbery was the object. During a torchlight procession at Antwerp in connection with the communal fetes a car representing winter caught fire and one of the woman occupants was burned to death. Four other women on the car sustained injuries. The annual report of the potsmaster general of Britain shows that the large total of $3,375,000 was found in letters undelivered during the fiscal year. The undelivered letters totaled 10,000,000. The United States district attorney of Kansas has decided that trade checks are illegal and that their issuance and circulation are punishable by a fine of SSOO or imprisonment for five years. A jury has given judgment for $350 to a Missouri brewing company against “smashers” who destroyed a “joint” at Norcatur, Kan. The defendants have appealed to the supreme court. The United States government officials have decided not to interfere with Cuba’s floating loan for $35,000,000, though it conflicts with the Platt amendment. July Baker of Fairplay, Col., charged with killing J. Vallie, on whose ranch he was employed, was found guilty of murder in the second degree. Mrs. Vallie is under indictment as an accessory. Charlemagne Tower, United States ambassador, has returned to St. Petersburg. Mrs. Tower, who accompanies her sons to America, will go to Bt. Petersburg in the autumn. George McFadden, colored, has confessed to the Philadelphia police that he is wanted in Lumberton, S. C., for the murder in November, 1900, of Elizabeth Smith, also colored. The Sparrow Kroll Lumber company of Kenton, Mich., has bought 11,000 acres of fir and spruce timber land on the coast in Oregon. The deal involves over $900,000. The company will continue operations ac Kenton. Policeman Tom Orr of Paducah, Ky., shot and killed Frank Buckner, colored, while Buckner was trying to escape. The negro had been wanted for six months for malicious shooting. The officer was exonerated. Robert C. Huffman of Norwalk, Ohio, and C. D. McDonough of Wash ington, Pa., sons of wealthy .parents, are in ' jail at Laporte, Ind., accused' of horse stealing. Wong Yen, a Chinaman, formerly of Chicago, under arrest at Toledo for violating the Immigration laws, committed suicide in the county jail by hanging. Texas is to have its first girls’ industrial school, the board of regents awarding the building contract to Dennis Mahoney of Waxahachie for $43,£SO. Following a business dispute William Dunovant, a capitalist of Houston, Texas, was fatally shot by W. T. Eldridge, vice president and general manager of the Canabel railway. The commissioner of Internal revenue has demanded payment of $300,000 war taxes due from national banks and withheld pending court decision. The war department has decided to withdraw army officers detailed as instructors unless higher standard is maintained by schools so favored. Santos-Dumont, the aeronaut, left New York in a huff, saying the s2o** 000 prize he was after was not forthcoming. John W. Gates won $50,000 on John horse High Chancellor at

Isaac Carter of Bloomington, In<L, was struck by a Vandalia train at Marshall, 111., and Instantly killed. In a quarrel at Anderson, W. Va., William Douglass and son shot and Instantly killed B. J. Johnson and his brother. The father and son made their escape. Corn and wheat will have to be imported in Mexico from the United States next winter. The corn crop in some Mexican states is good, but the general average is not satisfactory. The body of John McNeal, aged 60, was found in a skiff near Paducah, Ky. He was known from Pittsburg to the Mississippi as "Sailor Jack.” It is believed he died from heart disease while alone in his craft Henry Glenny of the Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf railroad was killed by Cobb Teel in a street car. He used profane language to the conductor. Glenny, who was accompanied by his wife, objected, and in a fight he was shot by Teel. The Davenport (la.) branch of the Electrical Workers’ union declared off the strike against the lowa telephone company, and all the strikers who had remained in town went back to work. Charlemagne Tower, United States ambassador to Russia, visited the United States cruisers Chicago and Albany at Cronstadt William Mansfield, a negro railway laborer, while asleep on the track, was killed by a train near Bloomington, 111. John Linney, the oldest native Texan, is dead at his home near Refugio, aged 73. He leaves nearly 100 direct descendants. Mrs. Matilda Oliver, aged 82 years, is dead at the home of her son, C. P. Oliver, near Eldorado, 111. Albert Beelow, accused of attempted assault on his daughter, broke Jail at Pocahontas, lowa. Bloodhounds are on his trail. Audrey Newman, 15 years old, was shot through the heart by a guard at the watermelon patch of William Kimbro, near Jefferson City, Tenn. Herbert E. Hill, the young man who hurdered his sister and committed a murderous assault on his mother at their home In Roxbury, Mass., July 8, was adjudged Insane and ordered committed to an asylum. Mile. Wanda De Boneza, an actress of the Comedie Francaise, Paris, is dead as the result of an operation for appendicitis. Andrew Carnegie has offered to donate $150,000 for the establishment of free libraries in the borough of Marylebone, London, on condition that the borough provide for their maintenance. John Warren, a negro, was hanged at Groesbeck, Texas, for the murder of a storekeeper named Dock Stevens. Warren sold his body for $5. Major C. M. Studdert and others who were concerned in the alleged fraud and conspiracy in connection with yoemanry horse sales in Ireland, have been summoned for trial before the court of Clare county. The pacer Dan Patch, going against time, paced a mile at the record speed of 2:00 3-4. The engagement of Miss Vivian Sartorls, granddaughter of Gen. Grant, to Frederick Roosevelt Scovel, cousin of the president, is announced. The exhibition drill of the life saving crew at Macatawa Park was turned to serious work by the falling of a pier and the ducking of twenty Tracy R. Bangs of Grand Forks, N. D., has been elected supreme chancellor of the Knights of Pythias. Charles J. Ross, an actor, was thrown out of Victoria theater, New York, by Manager Oscar Hammersteln after he had called Hammersteln a liar. The Elks grand lodge has prohibited the holding of fairs and carnivals to raise funds. Professor Ormond Stone of the University of Virginia, has been appointed by the executive committee of the Carnegie institution as an adviser in relation to original research in mathematics. There are three advisers, the other two being Professor Moore of the University of Chicago and Professor Morley of Johnß Hopkins. Old soldiers of Illinois will petition the next legislature to adopt the Indiana plan which permits veterans and their wives to live together in soldiers’ homes. Mrs. Ignatz Wiurchowski and Charles Janaski, the latter an admirer of Mrs. Wiurchowski, have confessed at Cleveland that Janaski killed the woman’s husband. Dr. Schweninger of Berlin, who treated Prince Bismarck to reduce that statesman’s flesh, has been appointed professor of the history of medicine at Berlin university. State Veterinarian Knight of Texas h.is found that charbon is doing considerable damage on the Rio Grande border and has established a quarantine on the infected herds. Capt Newman and his son Edward have arrived at Falmouth, England, in a thrity-elght foot kerosene launch, after a perilous voyage across the Atlantic. John R. Drexel gave his wife a $200,000 check for a birthday present Cuba has asked to be admitted to Gie international postal union. Walter S. Cross of Cacapon, W. Va., A private in the engineer corps of the army, failing in his efforts to get out of the service, committed suicide at Port Leavenworth, Kan., by shooting, tc A Russian student named Kaiajeff. recently released from a Silesian prison, has been surrendered to the Russian police, it being suspected that he was an accomplice in the murder of M. Slpiagulne, Russian minister of tee who was shot and frtn+d