Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 January 1903 — THE NEWS IN BRIEF [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS IN BRIEF

Assistant Supervisor John Barron, aged 46 years, fell dead while attend* lng a funeral at Decatur, 111. Gov. Dockery has offered a reward of S3OO each for the arrest and conviction of the men who robbed the bank at Union, Mo. Fire which broke out In a general merchandise store In Wetumpka, Ala., destroyed an entire block of two-story brick buildings and caused a loss of over $60,000, partly covered by insurance. The block destroyed constituted the business center of the town. Lieutenant Governor O. W. Robinson of Chassel, Mich., has lodged complaint with Governor Bliss against two Justices of Chassel township, John Madden and Albert Poisson. He accuses them of incompetence in law and with making extortionate and illegal charges as election inspectors. Prosecuting Attorney Larson is Investigating the case. Leonard H. McGranahan shot and killed Milt Foster at the home of Dick Neice near Grant, nine miles east of Terre Haute, Ind. After the shooting McGranahan, accompanied by two friends, went to Terre Haute and gave himself up. Foster was the aggressor, according to McGranahan’s story. He fired after Foster had struck him. Four persons were injured in a collision on the Northwestern road near Rochester, Minn. In a quarrel In a saloon at Three Lakes, Wis., Frank Schmidt fatally ■hot George Vilan. The Republican judicial committee of the eleventh Illinois district chose Bloomington for the convention on March 11. Fireman Edward Adams of Sedalia, Mo., was killed near Marshall, Mo., by the derailing of a Missouri Pacific passenger train. Edward Smith of Peoria, aged about 10 years, foreman of a construction gang, was killed by an Illinois Central train at Kenney, 111. William Daley of Baraboo, Wis., a brakeman in the employ of the Chicago and Northwestern railway, was so badly crushed between an engine and the door to the roundhouse at Janesville that he died in forty minutes. Joseph Miller, aged 26 years, was Instantly killed at the Armour packing bouse plant in Fort Worth, Tex., by falling down an open elevator Bhaft. His back and neck were broken and Skull crushed. J. R. Carleo, for many years justice of the peace at Muscotah, Atchison oounty, Kas., committed suicide by ■hooting himself through the head. He was 66 years old and ill health is supposed to have been the cause. An aged man named Ellis, whose home was near Bristol, Tenn., was knocked from the track by a train on the Southern railway near Jonesboro and instantly killed. Near New London, Mo., Tom Harrison, aged 20 years, accidentally shot >ims§lf through the body while driving along the highway in a wagon. The 18-month-old child of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. McLaughlin was burned to death at Ardmore, L T. The little fellow was playing with matches and ■et fire to his clothes.

The body of an unknown white man was found in a drift above Paducah, Ky. It was badly decomposed and there were only trousers, shirt and shoes on. Bullet holes were revealed Fire at Springtown, Tex., destroyed the stores of McDonald & Doughty and Nix & Femmins. The total loss was 120,000. E. L. Rodey of Whitecastle, La., fell from a train on the way from Monticello to Warren, Ark. One leg was broken and he sustained other serious Injuries. Dr. Charles A. Moore of the First Congregational church of Kewanee, 111., has accepted a call to the pastorate of the Edwards Congregational church of Davenport. Les Hopkins was shot and fatally wounded near Hamilton, Tex., by Charles Harris. Hopkins was a wellknown member of the 4th Texas regiment during the Spanish war. Harry Hicks, aged 18, night depot master at the Illinois Central station In Memphis, Tenn., was run down by a switch engine in the yards and instantly killed. Dee Butler, Goldie Lawrence and Van Flowers, who live' in Ballard county, Ky., stole a wagon load of tpbacco, containing 1,800 pounds, from EL B. Spaulding and were arrested in Paducah, Ky., while trying to sell it. The steamer Minnetonka of Duluth, Minn., coal laden from England to Boston, is in distress 900 miles off Halifax, Rudolph Hauersteck, a farmer and veteran of the civil war, was thrown * from his wagon and killed near De Soto, Mo. He was 63 years old. John West, aged 95, died at Abilene, Kan. He was once a member of Queen Victoria’s bodyguard and worked on America’s first railroad. T. C. Mlnner, working at a salt plant at Hutchinson Kan., fell from a scaffolding and was instantly killed. Edward Adams, aged 22 years, was shot by George Bean at Frankfort, Ky., in a quarrel over testimony Bean had given against Adams.