Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1902 — THE NEWS IN BRIEF [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE NEWS IN BRIEF

William Cole, a farmer of Centralia, Ul-, was thrown from a horse and killed. Miss Anna Mary Wilson of Chicago has been elected president of the freshman class at Smith college, Northampton, Mass. The second congress of Southern Pacific land and immigration agents at Houston, Tex., elected G. M. McKinney of Chicago as president. L. M. McNutt, aged 67 years, of Pana, 111., fell 750 feet down the shaft *f the Penwell coal mine and was instantly killed. Solomon H. Amaral, writing at Faval, declares that there is remarkable enthusiasm among the residents of the Azores for annexation to the United States. After five hours’ deliberation the Jury in the Herbert murder case at Washington, Ind., returned a verdict of* guilty and fixed the punishment at life imprisonment. Herbert kicked Louis Cunningham to death. It has been decided to establish wireless telegraphy apparatuses at all stations and on all passenger trains on Italian railroads. King Victor Emmanuel of his own initiative has appointed William Marconi a chevalier of the Order of Industrial Merit. Owing to heavy rains for fortyeight hours at Brunswick, Ga., five blocks in the center of the city are under water, and many business houses have from ten to fifteen inches of water in them. State Henry was hanged in the death chamber at the penitentiary at Moundsville, W. Va. Jessie Gillespie, aged. 17, of Beloit, Wis., has disappeared from her home and is supposed to have gone to Chicago to seek employment. Arthur Moyer, aged 19, self-con-fessed murderer of Douglas Craft, has been sentenced at Kankakee, 111., to 20 years’ imprisonment. Felipe Nesdell, a wealthy American mine owner, whose right name is said to have been Charles Walker, of St. Louis, was murdered at his mines in Mexico.

All but three of the 125 striking employes of the Syracuse cement works at Syracuse, Ind., have returned to work under a compromise agreement. Edward Hart, aged 21, son of Calvin Hart of Nadeau, Mich., was instantly killed by a flying piece of iron from the wheel of a fodder cutter. The boiler of an engine of a thrashing machine outfit at Cottonwood, Minn., blew up, fatally injuring Theodore Dahl. Carl Holt of Blair, Wis., had his right thigh broken and Mason Tankins’ skull was fractured. The bureau of insular affairs of the war department has received a dispatch from Governor Taft stating that the Philippine commission has passed an act inviting bids for street railroad, electric light and other franchises in Manila, the bids to be opened March 6, 1903. The bidß will be advertised In this country. The jury in the case of Miss Etta Martin, who sued Joseph Ayler, a millionaire mine owner of Webb City, Mo., for 5100,000 for breach of promise to marry, disagreed. Mr. Ayler, who is one of the wealthiest men in southwestern Missouri, is 63 years old. Miss Martin is 25. She formerly lived at Springfield, Mo. Gov* Yates has honored a requisition from the governor of Missouri for the extradition of Frank Parkhurst, under •arrest in Chicago and wanted in St. Louis on a charge of larceny. John Rupley, an old resident of Wabash, Ind., is at the point of death from injuries sustained in falling back•ward down an embankment, alighting ( on a cement walk on his head. Concussion of the brain resulted. James Maloney, a miner, was killed in Harrison mine at Murphysboro, 111. .! He was employed as pillow worker land while discharging his duties sev- ! ® ra l tons of coal and slate fell upon ihim. ) Frank Hoffman of Mishicott, Wis., i who disappeared recently, is at Clevo- ; land and has writter a letter to his • wife from that city. Hoffman gives ;do reason for leaving home, j Charles J. Wittig pleaded guilty in 1 Milwaukee, Wis., to having attempted jto kill his wife, Jennie, and was sen- ; tenced by Judge Brazee jLo ten years’ j Imprisonment in Waupun. ; Winnie Breese, aged 20 years, of Bei 101t > Wis., was arrested in Racine, | Wis., charged with forgery. Breese j said he forged the checks in order to j fcet enough money to marry. 1 Congressman John B. Corliss has been renominated by the First Michigan district Republicans. William Coates, 18 years old, who murdered his mother in the suburbs of St. Joseph, Mo., in order to get possession of her property, was condemned to be hanged December 8. Mrs. Sarah Robly, aged 60, was killed in a runaway on the public square at Centerville, lowa. Joel Tllman of Nappanee, Ind., was probably fatally injured at Wabash. Driving up to the Wabash railroad crossing at Cass street, his horse took fright and kicked the dashboard so that it flew back and struck him in tlhe abdomen.