Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 November 1902 — THE NEWS IN BRIEF [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS IN BRIEF

; George W. Parke, since 1850 a resident of Bloomington, 111., died at his home. He was 87 years old and a pioneer merchant of central Illinois, having settled In Metamora in 1840. Harry Wilfred Dupuy, a Yale senior, whose automobile killed Ditmas Thorpe Munro of New Haven, Conn., is said to have given the heirs $5,000 in settlement. Richard Payne, a bartender, was shot and instantly killed at Pueblo, Col., by Clara Humphrey, who said she shot him because he owed her 11.65. Daniel Webster’s barn, four and a half miles north of Alexandria, Ind., burned. His son Arthur, 30 years old, who had been sleeping in the barn, perished in the flames. The safe of the H. S. Lundy bank at Rock Island, Tex., was blown open by professional burglars. They secured all of the money in the vaults. Mrs. P. J. Henderson, wife of a farmer at Carlock, Tenn., was found murdered on the mountain side near her home, -She had been shot, the bullet penetrating the heart. A sum of money which she was known to have was missing. Burglars dynamited four safes in the office of Walker & Stratman, soap manufacturers, at Pittsburg, Pa. They secured S6OO and did $6,000 damage to the building. , While celebrating the marriage of John Wojtko at Reading, Pa., John Mortura and John Odiajansky became Involved in a quarrel with the brideijgroom, who wag beaten to death with • club. Albert Salesman, a farmer near (Brazil, Ind., was killed by a tree falling on him in the woods near his home.

Amos Clark of Centralia, 111., celebrated his 96th birthday anniversary with a dinner, at which the annual watermelon saved from the summer crop was served. Secretary Moody resumed his official duties at the navy department after an absence of several weeks in the west and in New England where he took active part in the political campaign. Nathaniel Clark, a farmer of Schuyler county, 111., was killed at a Wabash crossing east of Clayton. He tried to drive across the track ahead of a train and was struck by the pilot and knocked 70 feet. Congressman-elect Robert N. Nevin of Dayton, Ohio, has announced himself a candidate for the Republican gubernatorial nomination. “The Oaks,” the nistoric Kimball homestead on Prairie avenue, Kenosha, Wis., was destroyed by fire. The loss is $11,000; insurance, $5,000. “The Oaks” was built in 1837, being the first house in that section and the first house of note in Kenosha.' Official returns from Oklahoma indicate beyond a doubt the election of B. S. McGuire, Republican, as delegate to Congress, over W. M. Cross, Democrat, by a majority of about 300. If Republicans unseat Teller men in the Colorado house, the senate, which Is strongly Democratic, threatens to deadlock the legislature, so it will be impossible to elect a successor to Senator Teller. Charles W. King, engineer on the Chicago & North western road, was instantly killed at Kendall, Wis., by being run over by a car. In order to wind up the business of Noyes Brothers, one of the largest men s furnishing concerns in Boston, receivers have been appointed. In a row between George Perkins and Robert Beck at Conroe, Tex., Beck was shot and instantly killed. Leslie Robertson, colored, for insulting Alma Rose, a white girl, who had called at a doctor’s office at Paducah, Ky., was fined SIOO and sent to jail for fifty days witnin half an hour after the occurrence. At a dinner given at Paris by Foreign Minister Delcasse to King Charles of Portugal Mrs. Porter, wife of the American ambassador, occupied the place of honor on the right of M. Delcasse. Mme. Delcasse was seated on the right of the king. The Rev. W. C. Rabe, pastor of the German Baptist church, Omaha, and Miss Augusta Busch, missionary, were found dead in each other’s arms in the former’s church; the pastor is believed to have turned on the gas to end their lives; he was married and Miss Busch was his assistant. While attending a dance at Hllger, Tex., John Haddock and Charles Clanton became involved in a difficulty in which Clanton was shot three times and fatally wounded. Haddock has been lodged in jail. In the district court of Medina county, Tex., R. L. Perkins recovered a judgment of $7,000 against the Southern Pacific, alleging injuries to his spine while lifting a steam chest Rear Admiral Robley D. Evans has assumed command of the Asiatic squadron. The coal strike arbitration commission has ended its inspection of collieries by visiting Panther creek valley. The members have entered a total of seven mines and will begin hearing testimony at Scranton November X4L