Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1902 — THE NEWS IN BRIEF [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE NEWS IN BRIEF

* James A. Norton, congressman from fbe thirteenth Ohio district, has served taotice of contest of election on A. H. ‘Jackson of Fremont, his successful opponent in the recent election, on the grounds of irregularity in the casting of votes, corruption, etc. Jackson carried the district by 327, which is normally 6,000 democratic. Fire did 610,000 damage to the newspaper plant of the Daily Truth at Elkhart, Ind., owned by C. G. Conn. Judge Hallett of the United States district court at Denver, Col., has issued injunctions against Treasurer Elder of the city and county of Denver restraining him from selling the property of the railroads and express companies doing business there for the taxes of 1901, which are being withheld on'the ground that the assessment was illegal. The International Distilling and Cattle Feeding Company, owned by the Whisky trust, has closed a deal for the purchase of 200 acres of land adjoining South St. Joseph, Mo. A distillery with a capacity for 30,000 bushels of corn a day will be erected and 10,000 bead of cattle will be fattened for the market. It is said $2,000,000 will be spent on the site.

Pearl Hart, the female stage robber, was paroled by Governor Brodie of Arizona on the recommendation of the board of control and the prison superintendent. She held up a stage in company with Joe Boot between Florence and Globe. After a chase of several days by a posse the fugitives were apprehended and most of the booty recovered. The woman was sentenced to prison for five years in 1899. Commissioner of Police John N. Partridge of New York has resigned, to take effect Jan. 1. Mrs. James Abernathy of St. Louis, Mo., who slept for six days almost uninterruptedly, has awakened. John Daniel was killed and Samuel Daniels was probably fatally injured by an explosion in the Quincy mine at Houghton, Mich. Major John Hancock, chief of the stationery division of the pension bureau, father-in-law of the director of the census and a relative of General [Winfield Scott Hancock, was stricken with paralysis at his desk. Goldey Tyus, convicted of murdering Jeff Godwin on Oct. 28, was hanged at Thomasville, Ga. , Frank Lewis was hanged at Harlan Court House, Ky., for the murder of his father-in-law, Dixon. Fire at Winston-Salem, N. C., destroyed property valued at $176,000, among the losers being Vaughan’s knitting mill, Whitaker-Harvey Com- 1 pany, tobacco manufacturers; Lippert, Scales & Co., leaf tobacco, and Ogbum Hill & Co., leaf tobacco. William Powers of Dubuque, la., formerly active in business cicles, is dead, aged 93. The 11-year-old son of Charles Hind, living south of Belmont, Wis., was accidentally killed by the discharge of a gun. D. M. Parry, president of the National Manufacturers’ association, is out with a new circular in bis fight against the eight-hour bill now pending in the senate committee. The bill has already been passed by the house. An overheated furnace in L. R. Rosebrook’s general store at Coal Field, la., set fire to and destroyed the building and its contents. The flames spread to the postoffice and the lowa Central railroad depot. The trial of Robert O. Hunt of Oconto, Wls.. former assemblyman and prominent business man, on a charge of mutilating the official records in the registrar of deed’s office was brought to an end by Judge Goodland, who dismissed the accused. Mrs. C. K. Adams, widow of the former president' of the University of Wisconsin, died at Redlands, Cal. She was in feeble health at the time of her husband’s death, and had been growing weaker since. Acute Bright’s disease was the immediate cause of her demise. It Is said she left her entire estate to the University of Wisconsin. The westbound passenger train on the T. P. & w. struck and instantly Rilled Eli Augustine at El Paso, ILL Cora Grimm, a domestic, working *t the residence of John G. Crawford, at Oakland, 111., died from burns. 1 Fire at Camden, Ark., destroyed the grocery store of J. W. Kennedy and (the photograph and art store of J. E. JCfewton. Eliza Thomas was killed on the Stephens farm, about five miles west of Koose, Tex. Charlotte Massey is tinder arfbst, charged with the killing. The citizens of Newton, 111., held a memorial service in honor of Hale Johnson, deceased. > W. JO. Hickman, for six years chancellor of Depauw University, Green--811 l tender his the Methodist business sec-