Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1903 — NEWS OF THE WORLD [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WORLD

ladustrlal, Political, Domostlo and Forotfa Happenings of Minor Importance Told In Paragraphs. Henry Weeltz was seriously stabbed by George Sodders in a quarrel at Pasey, lU. Miss Myrtle East, aged 25 years, and Charles Harris, aged 30, were killed by a Panhandle train at a crossing at Frankton, Ind. Fireman James Graham and Lewis Hahn of Baltimore were so badly hurt that they died and Conductor Charles Cutsail and Brakeman Newman were probably fatally injured by the explosion of a locomotive on the Baltimore & Ohio road near Monrovia, Md. All the anarchists who have been under arrest at Barcelona except one have been released. Italy has proposed to establish the Marconi system of wireless telegraphy between Pekin and Taku. The silverware factory of C. Rogers A Brothers at Meriden, Conn., has been closed by orders issued from the offices of the International Silver company. The order throws 350 hands out of work. C. Rogers & Brothers’ factory was brought into the control of the International Silver company by the recently consummated deal with the United States Silver corporation. The jury in the case of Calvin Llnord, charged with the murder of Sol Stevens at Shatsburg, Mich., Nov. 16, returned a verdict of manslaughter. Linerd was sent to get Stevens out of the cellar of Mrs. Snyder and was set upon by Stevens. Wallace Lake, aged 65 years, a farmer near Hillsdale, Ind., committed suicide by shooting. Ireton Bros.’ grain warehouse and elevator at Van Wert, Ohio, burned, causing a loss of $68,000, on which there is $20,000 Insurance. A judicial conference of the Methodist church found Rev. J. B. Wolf of Beardstown, 111., guilty of immorality and imprudent conduct and recommended his expulsion from the ministry and the church. Shortage of coal is causing some concern in the navy. The various navy yards are appealing to the bureau of equipment for coal. Arrangements were made for the shipment of coal from the depot at New London, Conn., to the New York navy yard, where the fuel supply is practically exhausted. The congestion in the railroad yard in the Pittsburg district which was relieved by President A. J. Cassatt of the Pennsylvania railroad some weeks ago, again delays traffic. The coke production of the Connellsvllle fields cannot be moved and an embargo has been put on coke shipments over the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago railroad through Conway. The house committee on merchant marine and fisheries directed that a subcommittee of five be appointed to begin the congressional investigation Into the subject of coal transportation which the house has authorized the committee to make. It is probable that this subcommittee will first go to Boston to take testimony. The bricklayers, in convention at Memphis, discussed the question of the establishment of a school for apprentices.

The Fourteenth Street theater in St. Louis has been sold to Lester M. Crawford of Topeka, Kan., and will be added to his circuit of fourteen playhouses. The general store of C. J. Kerns at Valparaiso, Ind., was nearly destroyed. Loss on stock and building, $18,000; insured at $12,500. Two hundred miners employed by the Spaulding Coal company at Spalding, 111., went on strike, alleging that the company does not furnish enough pit cars. This the company denies. A. J. Gompers, son of Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, is critically ill of malignant pneumonia at Denver. Hia father and mother have been summoned from Washington. The President has nominated Colonel Edward M. Hayes, Thirteenth cavalry, to be brigadier general. The executive committee of the Pilgrim’s' club, London, has completed arrangements for a dinner to Mr. Choate, to which all the resident ambassadors, all the United States ambassadors and ministers on the continent and all members of the British government will be invited. Frank Tlmmens, employed on telephone his work at Freeport, 111., caught hold of a live electric wire. The flesh was burned off his left hand and death resulted in a few hours afterward. His home was at Rockford. In a revolver duel at Henderson, Ky., between a policeman and Dick Crook, a farmer, Crook was fatally shot and the officer received wounds which will render him a cripple. London advices from the Falkland islands report a life buoy and a ship’s wooden bucket marked “St. Enoch, Glasgow," washed ashore at Port Stephens, West Falkland island. The British ship St. Enoch sailed from Hamburg May 4 for Santa Rosalia and was last heard of May 30. Jacob Wolters, a 19-year-old- son of John Wolters, bled to death at Virginia, 111., from accidental gunshot wounds while hunting. Senator Gjertson of the Minnesota legislature introduced a bill against existence of bucketshops.

OoL William R. Morrisaa, who is ill at his home at Waterloo, HL, is improving rapidly and there are hopes of his ultimate recovery. W. A. Scott, a jeweler of New Cumberland, W. Va., was robbed of money and Jewelry valued at $2,000 by three masked men who blew open the safe. Because of the severe illness of Helen Grantley, the star, ‘‘The Girl and the Judge” company disbanded at Anderson, Ind. Miss Grantley will go to Florida as soon as she is able to travel. As a result of the negotiations between the grievance committee of the Louisville & Nashville locomotive engineers and General Manager Evans an agreement has been reached whereby the engineers will receive an increase in wages in proportion to the added duties which have fallen upon each division on the various sections of the system. Prominent members of the Sons of the American Revolution will go to Canton Jan. 29 to present to Mrs. McKinley an elaborate memorial of her husband, who was a compatriot of the society. The party will include members from every state in the union. They will gather in Cleveland on the evening before to attend the annual banquet of the society. Brooks Story, an escaped convict, has voluntarily delivered himself to the sheriff at Kosciusko, Miss., and asked to be taken back to the penitentiary at Jackson to serve three unexpired years of his term. Story was convicted in 1892 of robbing the express office at Durant and was given a sentence of ten years. He escaped five times and was recaptured four times. The pope received in private audience Francis McNutt and Mrs. McNutt of Washington, who gave the pontiff a jubilee gift of four magnificent columns of alabaster from Tivoli. These have been erected in the throneroom to hold candelabra on each side of the throne. In the course of a spirited attack on the government’s general policy Lord Rosebery, speaking at Plymouth, referred to Venezuela. He reminded his audience that when the liberal government had the same kind of debt collecting to do in Nicaragua it first consulted Washington and then settled the business in a couple of days. A dispatch from Cairo reports the discovery in Syria of one of the oldest Hebrew manuscript bibles. It consists of the five books of Pentateuch, written in Samaritan characters on gazelle parchment in the year 116 of the Moslem era. It shows important differences from the existing text. Adam Treadwell, colored, was hanged at Norfolk, Va., for the murder of his wife. John G. Bulling, 70 years of age and an old resident of St. Joseph, Mo., was killed by an engine at a crossing. The President commuted the fifteen years’ sentence of Henry Starr of Indian territory. He was convicted in 1898 of manslaughter and also on two charges of robbery. The secretary of war has submitted to congress an estimate for SI,OOO for one year’s lease of a tract of land on the Winnebago reservation for use as a rifle range for the soldiers at Fort Crook. Captain E. C. Barnes, assistant surgeon of the Second Infantry, Wisconsin National Guard, is quoted as saying that to keep soldiers in perfect health good beer is better than poor water. Two little children of Ole Gunderskord, a girl aged 7 and a 11 years, were instantly killed near their home in Sandborn, Wfs., while returning from school in a cutter. They were thrown under the runners of the sleigh, which cut their bodies in two.

M. Faillieres has been reelected president of the French senate. During a performance in the Exchange concert hall at Missoula, Mont., electric light wire circuits became crossed and flames shot over every wire in the place. There was but a single exit and a panic ensued. Six persons were partly suffocated and Harry Walker, a bartender, is likely to die of internal injuries. Contracts have been let by the Longmont Beet Sugar company for the construction of a beet sugar factory at Longmont, Col., that will cost $1,000,000. The plant will have a capacity of 1,200 tons daily and is to be ready to begin grinding beets Oct. 1. The diocesan consultors and irremovable rectors of the diocese at Cincinnati nominated three prelates for the office of coadjutor bishop of the archdiocese of Cincinnati, recently created upon the request of Archbishop W. H. Elder. It is stated that the choice fell upon Bishops Byrne of Nashville, Maes of Covington and Moeller of Columbus, O. “Doc” Butler of Chicago, the third of the suspected Abingdon National Bank robbers, at the preliminary hearing at Galesburg, 111., was bound over in the sum of $7,000. Investigation of the alleged case of hazing of Midshipman Pea. son at the naval academy probably will not be pressed further, the authorities at Annapolis and at the navy department being convinced that the accident to the midshipman was not the result of unfair play. Mrs. Nancy Page, colored, aged 112, died at Centralia, 111. The age of her children substantiates her claim of age. The high school at Sheldon, la., burned. The loss Is $50,000; insurance, 26,000. Not a pupil was hurt. Alfred Beit, the financier, who was taken ill suddenly, is much improved. He hopes to start soon from Johannesburg for England. Warren, the 2-year-old son of William Cason of Covington, Ky., was burned to death. The baby tripped on a rug and fell Into an open fire.