Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 December 1902 — THE NEWS IN BRIEF [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS IN BRIEF

Judge Phillips at Cleveland held Mayor Johnson’s tax bureau to be illegal. The steamer Minnetonka of Duluth, Minn., coal laden from England to Boston, is in distress 900 miles off Halifax. Justice of the Peace F. A. Truman, E. A. Maxfield, his client, and former Constable Philip Becht of Cleveland have been indicted on a charge of forgery. Aloysus J. ijchmidtbauer of Milwaukee, who was married to Miss Anna V. Faust of that city in San Antonia, Texas, died the day following the ceremony. Senator Jones of Arkansas offered a resolution in the senate calling for Immediate consideration of the charges by William R. Hearst that the railroads are violating the interstate commerce law. George D. Reynolds, recent Republican nominee in the Twelfth Missouri congressional district, has begun contest proceedings against James J. Butler, alleging fraudulent voting in the recent election. Former Police Captain Daniel C. Moynahan, who was dismissed by Police Commissioner Partridge, was placed on trial in New York charged with accepting bribes, in return for which it is alleged he refrained from enforcing the law against disorderly houses in his precinct. President Larry of the Lincoln Memorial university at Cumberland Gap, Tenn., announces he has secured from Northern sources an endowment of $200,000 for that institution and a number of scholarships. The benefactors are not made known. The Lincoln Memorial university was founded largely through the efforts of Gen. O. O. Howard. It is for the mountain people. A car heavily loaded with lumber on Mays’ siding, near Wetmore, on the Philadelphia & Erie railroad, ran away down a steep grade at Bradford, Pa, and crashed into a doubleheader freight going east. The lumber on the car shoved forward and pinned both engineers in the wreck, killing them Instantly and injuring three other* The dead engineers are James Mui* phy of Kane, Pa., and Charles Dleffenbach of Erie, Pa. John Powers, superintendent of a mine, was frozen to death in the Green horn district of Oregon. He was 64 years of age. Edmund Hauser has been arrested by United States officials at Canton, 0., on the charge of falsely representing himself as a government employe. Sitting in snow with back against a sleigh, Mrs. William E. Moore, quar-ter-breed squaw, was found dead at L’Anse, Mich. The woman lived alone on the bay shore, her husband being In the woods near Duluth. Joseph Johanek pleaded guilty at Wausau, Wis., to the charge of assault and was sentenced to ten years’ Imprisonment. His victim was the 6-year-old daughter of Charles Schials, a saloonkeeper near Athens. Frank Wylie, Jr., 28 years of age, committed suicide at Stevens Point, Wis., by shooting himself through the bead. The Madrid Heraldo stated that Don Carlos purposes to renounce his claim to the throne in favor of his son Don Jaime. The French authorities have become convinced that the death of Mrs. Ellen Gore was accidental and have decided to drop the case entirely against M. De Rydzewski. Believing she was becoming insane, Mrs. W. W. Jones of Rockport, Ohio, committed suicide by shooting. Fireman Morrell was killed in a collision between two freight trains on the Burlington road at Table Rock, Neb. Deputy Sheriff Richard Stone of Eagle. Pass, Tex., had his throat cut by Bilax Ford, whom he tried to arrest. Desperately wounded as he was, the officer captured Ford. Stone is likely to die. The new Episcopal church at Angleton, Tex., replacing the one destroyed In the great storm of 1900, was dedicated by Bishop Kinsolving, assisted by a number of clergymen from different towns in the coast country. The telegraphers of the Atlantic division of the Southern Pacific have made a demand for an increase of wages and a grievance committee is now in conference at Houston with Manager Van Vleck. Judge Ryan of St. Louis has overruled the motion for a new trial for Robert H. Snyder, the banker and promoter of New York and Kansas City, convicted of bribery, and sentenced to live years in the penitentiary. The hearing in the railroad merger case at St. Paul has been adjourned, to be resumed at New York Dec. 29. Miss Birdie Woodwaru, employed in a Metropolis, 111., basket factory, was seriously poisoned by swallowing strychnine mixed with tacks, which She held in her mouth while working. Jim PaUdHton shot and killed Eliza Bryant at Branehville, Tex. Both are MlOMd. There is an epidemic of diphtheria In the Greenville (Tex.) community, •nd there have been several deaths already. with a number of children 111.