Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1902 — THE NEWS IN BRIEF [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS IN BRIEF

Wilson F. Thrall, an optician, 74 years old, died at Danbury, Conn., from starvation. He declared two months ago that we would eat no more and refused food after that except when forced to eat. Announcement is made by Irwin Shepard, secretary of the National Educational association, that the department of superintendents, numbering 1,000 of the leading educators of the United States, will meet in Cincinnati, 0., Feb. 24 to 27. The Overbrook mills at Philadelphia, Pa., operated by Rosenheim Brothers & Co., manufacturers of tapestries, and owned by the Haverford Building and Loan association, were destroyed by fire of unknown origin. The loss was estimated at $50,000, insured. According to information received at Darmstadt the czarina’s condition is in every way satisfactory. The statement of the London board of trade for August shows a decrease of $2,623,000 in imports and an increase of $471,500 in exports. Three hundred and seventeen striking colliers were fined S4O each at Doncaster, England, for leaving work without notice. Rev. E. L. Kelley of Lacon, 111., has accepted a call to the pastorate of the Baptist church of Fairbury, 111. Andrew Meldin, an old resident of Galesburg, 111., was struck by a street car and killed. Sheriff W. E. Strain of Monona county, lowa, shot by Ed Carns near Whiting, is dead. The bank of Sonora, Ky., was broken into and robbed. The robbers got considerable booty. They were followed by a posse of citizens. Arrangements have been completed by the postofflce department at Washington for the establishment of an exchange of international through registered pouches between San Antonio, Tex., and Ciudad Porfirio Diaz, Mex., to begin Oct. 1. Eight thousand carpenters of New York won their strike for an advance of 50 cents a day when the Master Carpenters’ association, after a conference of seven hours, granted the demand.

Boer generals Botha, De Wet and Delarey held a secret conference with Secretary Chamberlain. The $15,000,000 grant may be supplemented. Hayti government troops were defeated and Gen. Esmangard and artillery captured by rebels. Venezuela citizens are starving as a result of the revolution. The Lonaon trades union conference rejected a resolution favoring woman suffrage and condemned the Boer war as wrong. The northern portion of Martinique Island has been ordered abandoned by the French government. Fire destroyed the property of the Crystal Springs company, a Hot Springs resort near Butte, Mont. The loss Is $25,000; insurance, $15,000. J A J. Cummings & Co., one of the largest brokerage houses in Pittsburg, Pa., with branches in eighteen or twenty towns, suspended. i Edgar V. Einstein & Co., proprietors of a large department store at Harrisburg, Pa., have made an assignment, giving liabilities as $117,000 and assets $60,000. Rev. J. C. Murray of the faculty of Gammon Theological seminary, Atlanta, Ga., who was accused of Immorality, was vindicated by the trial board at Richmond, Ind.

Lieutenant John W. Stark of the Seventeenth Virginia regiment has been sentenced by a court martial to dishonorable discarge and to two months in jail for calling a brother officer a "lobster.” Overland passenger train No. 3 on the Northern Pacific, was wrecked at Trout Creek Station, on the Ida-ho-Montana line, and Engineer Owens Instantly killed. Miss Bertha Fowler, superintendent of the Mercy Home of Chicago, addressed the Illinois conference of the Home Missionary Society of the M. E. church at Springfield on “The United States in the Mission Field." The collapse of the American Bicycle company is regarded as making a commercial end of the fad. The sales dropped 80 per cent in three years and bicycle clubs are disbanded. Striking Ghetto Bakers at Chicago started riots when wagons delivered flour to bakeries. The Cape Colony situation is worrying English unionists; Premier Sprigg is allowing the Africander bund to dominate. Secretary Chamberlain has been urged to suspend the constitution. Carpenters’ Local Union No. 73, one of the largest labor unions in St. Louis, voted to demand an increase of pay from 45 to 55 cents an hour, commencing April 1, 1903. The purpose of seven months’ notice is to give contractors a basis to figure on conTtee counties of Kings, Limerick, Longford, Queens and Westmeath and Che bonraghs of Dublin and Limerick, Irelaad, have been proclaimed under the crimes act under the sections dealing with trial by special jury and .change of venue.