Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1902 — THE NEWS IN BRIEF [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE NEWS IN BRIEF

Fire in Henderson, Ky., destroyed Lambert & Son’s grocery and Pierson’s dry goods store. Loss, $50,000; insurance, $35,000. Mrs. Hattie L. Whitten of Dexter, Me., under arrest charged with murdering her 9-year-old girl, committed suicide by hanging in her cell. Family troubles are supposed to have caused Mrs. Ellen Mayberry, near McLeansboro, 111., to end her life by hanging. James B. Markoe, a banker and society man of Philadelphia, was killed in a runaway accident in that city, and three men who tried to stop the horses were seriously injured. Fire damaged the county workhouse at Wilmington, Del., $200,000. One prisoner escaped and several others made a desperate fight before the guards and police succeeded in transferring them to a place of safety. August Oist, a traveler bound from Chicago to New York, who served on the ship Monocacy during the Span-ish-American war, was found in the railroad station at Rochester, N. Y., the head severed from the body by a train. The “Golden Gate Limited” on the Rock Island road ran into a freight engine at Herington, Kan., derailing the passenger engine and six coaches. Engineer Grogan was fatally injured and Fireman McCarthy had his collar bone broken. J. E. Blackburn, state dairy food commissioner of Columbus, 0., will locate a truck and fruit colony of Ohio farmers on a 5,000-acre tract he has purchased at Theodore, Mobile county, Ala. Several people barely escaped from the Central houpe at Calumet, Mich., which was gutted by fire. Forty guests were sleeping in the building and were awakened with difficulty. The loss is SIO,OOO. Mrs. Kate Vance, a colored woman of Newton, Kan., died, aged 123 years. Mrs. Vance had a daughter 90 years oi age and her husband died at the age of 105. She remembered with distinctness Jefferson’s administration and the war of 1812. Isaac Van Brimer died at his home •near Gray Creek, Colo., aged “108 years. He was a veteran of the Mexican war, and scouted with Kit Carson. Mrs. Sarah J. McKinstry, an early settler, died at Delavan, Wis., aged 78. She had lived at Delavan for over fifty years. Adolf Von Menzel, the noted painter, has finished a painting at Berlin of “Frederick the Great in the Year 1778,” the year in which Frederick recognized American independence. The painting is inscribed, “Dedicated to Free America.” Mrs. Elizabeth Stansbury, aged 75 years, died at Bloomington, 111. She was a wealthy pioneer resident of central Illinois and became noted through her generosity to religious institutions. She gave SIB,OOO to the Milliken University of Decatur, and many other Illinois institutions were' remembered.

Charles E. Conrad died at Kallspell, Mont., from tuberculosis. He was president of the Conrad National bank and the Kalispell Town Site company. He was born in Virginia in 1850, and settled in Montana thirtyfour years ago. Richard A. Townsend, a well-known society leader, died at Washington, the result of injuries caused by falling from a horse. He leaves a widow, Mrs. Mary Scott Townsend. Five-inch Harveyized casemate plate's for the armored cruiser Colorado were tested at Indian Head and pronounced satisfactory, alleged election frauds in that city. The Commercial Cable Company has filed with the department of justice a written acceptance of the terms and conditions on which the president has consented and it may construct a cable between the United States and the Philippines and China. James E. Hyde, president of the Federation of the Alliance Francaise in the United States, has been elected an honorary member of the board of trustees of the Alliance Francaise of Chicago, working in co-operation with Chicago university. Charles V. Herdliska, United States consul at Callao, Peru, has tendered his resignation and it has been accepted. Mr. Herdliska is unwilling to expose his family to the climatic change Involved in taking them from Ohio to Peru. Tfc# toterstate commerce commission la in session at Charlotte, N. C., to hear complaints against the Southern and Seaboard Air Line railway companies. The Peoria and Pekin (Ill.) Terminal Railway has granted the demands of Its employes for a 10 per cent increase in wages. Judge Carpenter in the criminal division of the district court at Denver, Col., called a grand jury to investigate The North German Lloyd steamer Kronprinz Wilhelm, from New York Nov. 18, which arrived at Plymouth, England, reports that a blade of its port propeller broke Nov. 20, causing her to proceed at reduced speed ana to arrive late in port