Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1902 — THE NEWS IN BRIEF [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS IN BRIEF

In a quarrel over a woman Christian Bchwer shot and fatally wounded Edward Lemk at New Ulm, Minn. A mob at Lincolnton, N. C., made an unsuccessful attempt to lynch Calvin Elliott, colored, charged with assault Clarence A. Fullerton, a farmer, was shot and killed near Gering, Neb., by Walter Houston, a 17-year-old boy, during a running fight. Isaac Weymouth, who killed Marshal Harris of Cedarville, Ohio, while resisting arrest, hanged himself at Springfield. Ohio. The American Smelting and Refining company has closed the deal for the smelter and mines at Valardena, Mexico. The consideration is said to be over $5,000,000. Two tombs of great antiquity have been discovered in the necropolis in the forum, Rome. The first-ciass cruiser Otchakoff was successfully launched at Sebastopol in the presence of the czar. The corner stone of the Methodist church at Clinton, lowa, has been laid. The building will cost $35,000. While fighting bush fires at Houghton, Mich., Andrew Hongala, 84 years old, was burned to death despite the assistance his aged wife tried to give him.

The quarter’s exports for all Germany except Munich to the United States were $31,527,923, an increase of $7,107,953. The officials of the trades' union congress of the National Free church council and the National Educational Association at London have sent letters to the municipal electors urging the election of candidates to the municipal council at the November elections who are pledged to support the resolutions pressing the government to withdraw the education bill and who are also pledged In any event against granting public money to schools which are not managed by representatives of the general public. Edith Quist, young daughter of John Quist of Sycamore, 111., died from burns. She fell against a stove and meningitis developed. John W. Sims of Knoxville, la., who allied his father last August to protect him from killing his mother, was discharged, the grand jury having found no bill against him. At Burlington, Wis., Mr. and Mrs. James Patoute celebrated the 70th anniversary of their marriage. They are believed to be the oldest living married couple in thfe United States. The Republican assembly district convention for Adams and Marquette counties, Wisconsin, was barred from meeting in the village of Oxford on acaccount of the diphtheria quarantine. The convention is still in deadlock. After wandering aimlessly around Milwaukee for eight days, his mind a blank, and unable to realize what he was doing or where he was, John Ager, a liquor dealer, was found and taken to his Racine home. Miss Grace Llghthizer, aged 16, of Janesville, Wis., has been missing and is believed to have left the city with John Vance of Chicago, a young telegraph operator who has been the girl’s lover for some time. Luther W. Sheer, the self-confessed forger, was sentenced at Muskegon, Mich., to twelve years in the state prison. Clarenoe Thurston, 1 son of Senator Thurston of Nebraska, who attempted suicide at St. Louis, is rapidly recovering. Heinze’s fusion Committee at Butte, Mont., has indorsed Judge W. L. Holloway for associate justice of the Montana Supreme court, and Martin Dee for oongress, both nominees of the amalgamated Republicans. The Independent Order of Good Templars of the World will erect a monument over the grave of Colonel J. J. Hickman at Columbia, Mo. Colonel Hickman was famous as a temperance orator. Hudson Autler, his wife and five children, of Vincennes, Ind., are lying at the point of death as a result of eating beans on which arsenic had been placed. The breaking of a rope attached to a ear which was ascending the shaft of a ooal mine at Pontypool, Wales, precipitated the car, which contained eight men, 300 yards to the bottom. All were instantly killed. Indian Agent Haslett of the Fort Defiance agency, Arizona, reports to Commissioner of Indian Affairs Jones denying the reports that 6,000 Navajo Indianß in San Juan county are starving. He says he wants to hire 100 Indians at ‘$LlO per day to work on a railroad, but cannot get one to work. The Kansas Democratic and Populist state committee nominated Wiliam H. Stryker for superintendent of pubic Instruction. St. Petersburg advices from KharMn say that the Russian troops are beginning to evacuate south ManchuThe Berlin papers print a letter AMm one of the crisw of the German gnukuai Panther saying that Emperor WltHam sent a cable dispatch after the ffcktag ad the Haytian revolutionary «—kset Grete-a-Pierrot saying:

Smallpox is reported tn Kappa, Woodford county, and Ipava, Fulton county. 111. Dr. E. S. Baker l»f Jacksonville, a smallpox expert, has been sent to Investigate. Harry Hubbard, owner of a shooting gallery at Beaver Dam, Wis., was accidentally shot by Jack Daily at the gallery. The ball pieroed his windpipe and lodged in the gullet. While walking along Copper Range tracks near Baltic mine, six miles southwest of Houghton, Mich., two men were struck by a passenger train. Both were killed. They were identified as John H. Miller and John Haischer, apparently laborers. A man with a handkerchief over his faco entered Gus Luistrom’s saloon at a railroad work camp near Caslin, Nev., and ordered the proprietor to throw up his hands. Luistrom instead of doing so picked up an automatic rapid-fire pistol lying handy and shot the fellow, killing him instantly. Nine bullets took effect. P. Ryan of the Cape of Good Hope, president of the Agricultural Society of South Africa, conferred with Secretary Wilson at Washington to secure Information regarding agricultural conditions in this country. He stated that the Cape Colony government is annually expending $2,000,000 for agricultural purposes. A coroner's jury in New York In the case of Mrs. Harry C. Rose, who was shot and killed Sept. 27, returned a verdict that Mrs. Rose died from wounds from a revolver at the hands of her husband. The coroner sent Rose to the tombs to await the action of the grand jury. It was officially announced at Pittsburg that at the meeting of manufacturers and jobbers of plate glass, held recently, au advance of 10 per cent was made on all plate glass under ten feet square except that used for silvering. The advance is on the manufacturers’ prices and will go Into effect at once.

In an elevator accident at the shoe foctory of A. E. Little & Co., at Lynn, Mass., two persons were killed and eleven were injured. A cable parted and not only did the car containing thirteen persons fall four stories, but a 600-pound weight broke through the top of it, crushing to death Benjamin O. Crane, foreman, and causing injuries to Miss Frances Kerlihy, an assistant forewoman, from which she died. Crazed by jealousy that is supposed to have unbalanced his mind, Policeman Luther McNedr killed his wife and committed suicide at Springfield, 111. Fire at Toolumne, Cal., destroyed the business section, causing a loss of $150,000, including an estimated loss to the West Side Lumber Company of $90,000. The Carriage Builders’ National Association, in convention at Detroit, chose Boston tor next year’s gathering. A syndicate headed by John A. Drake has purchased the Gilt Edge mine in Fergus county, Montana, for a price said to approach $1,000,000. Ospy Gabrilowitsch, the Russian pianist, inaugurated his second American tour at the Worcester, Mass., music festival and was enthusiastically received. Charles Taylor Olmstead, until recently vicar of St Agnes’ church, New York, has been consecrated as coadjutor of the Episcopal church In the diocese of central New York. Five persons, Including Engineer Fred Pearce and Brakeman William Miller, were killed and three injured In a head-end collision between Baltimore and Ohio freight trains In a tunnel near Cornwallis, W. Va. After traversing a wilderness where white men had never before ventured the United States geological survey has completed a preliminary examination of the country lying between Cook inlet and the Tanana. Andrew Carnegie has donated sl,600 to the union for women students of St. Andrew’s university, of which institution he is rector. John Tesch, once a prominent clothing dealer of Chilton, Wis., committed suicide by jumping into the Manitowoc river. For some time he had been in poor health. Fred Skundberg, aged 8 years, son of a wealthy farmer of Alden, Wis., was instantly killed by the accidental discharge of a rifle by an older brother. John Arp of Hamilton, 0., brought suit for the appointment of a receiver for the big Rockdale Tissue and Wax Paper Company and to enforce a mechanic’s lien cf $4,000. King Edward has approved the Issue of a second South African war medal bearing his own effigy. It will he granted to troops which participated In the latter phases of the war. Charles Holada, accused of abetting Mrs. James Gallagher in the murder of her husband, in the trial at lowa City, la., took the stand and told of plots to get rid of Gallagher. Harry L. Dupuy of Pittsburg, Pa., a Yale student charged with manslaughter In causing the death of D. Thorpe Munro of Chicago by an automobile collision last June, waived examination In the police court at New Havjeu, Conn., and was held in bonds of sl,000 for the superior court. Nicholas Rogers, aged 65 years, was run over by a switch engine at the plate glass works In Elwood, Ind., and | died fifteen minutes later. The Japanese press congratulates the government on the flotation of the loan of $25,000,000. Mrs. Delia Wainwright, ono of the oldest residents of Jefferson eounty, Wisconsin, celebrated her ninety-ninth birthday anniversary. She enjoys good health, although ske has lived under the rule of every president of the United States save Washington and Adams. »'