Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1895 — JURY OF WOMEN ONLY [ARTICLE]

JURY OF WOMEN ONLY

NOVEL SITUATION IN A KENTUCKY COURT. Receives 2,000 Volts of Electric Fluid and Lives—Salisbury Succeeds Rose-bery-—Death on an ier Dies at His Post. Will Have a Jury of Women Only. Circuit Judge "M.C.Saufley.of Lancaster, Ky., proposes to try a novel suit before a novel jury. It is an action for breach of promise brought by W. C. Stivers, a Lancaster widower, against Miss Katherine West, a vcftipg school teacher, \ and Judge Saufley says that the jury before which it shall go must be composed of women. Under the new constitution they sire eligible for jury service. The case will be interesting in other respects, for Stivers threatens to have Miss West’s letters read in court, and her friends say that if he does there will be trouble. Miss West has engaged W. O. Bradley, the Republican nominee for Governor, to defend her in the suit.

Irover Finds the Dynamo Loaded. Frank E. Grover, foreman of the Rochester, N. Y., GaS and Electric Company, Friday leaned against a dynamo at the lower falls power house, where he is employed, and fell writhing to the floor. He had received a heavy charge of electricity, and was apparently dead. A physician and assistants worked over his body fortyfive minutes before there was a sign of life. Then natural breathing began, and in half an hour more the man opened his eyes and recognized those about Jiim. In Mr. Grover’s leg a deep hole was found, and on his side a burn seven inches long. When the machinery was stopped his clothing and flesh were burning. Between 2,000 and 3,000 volts of electricity passed through his body. The current is .considered, three times that necessary to kill in a State prison.

Robbera Loot a Bank. Rainy Lake City, Minn., is intensely excited over a daring and successful robbery of the bank late Friday evening by two masked men, who, after a desperate struggle with the cashier, in which he was finally beaten into insensibility, -secured $30,000 and escaped through a crowd of bewildered citizens wRo had been attracted to the bank by the struggle and pistol shots. ’Several posses have taken up the search, and there is some hope of overtaking the desperate robbers.

The Tories Triumph. Lord Rosebery tendered his resignation to the queen Saturday evening. He advlsed the queen to send for Lord Sails-" bury, the former Tory premier. By a technical ruse almost impossible to explain to American readers, because of the totally different procedure in parliament as compared with our Congress, the new ministry will avoid declaring itself before parliament and may force dissolution and a general election within the next three weeks. Die of Their Bnrns. The wlialeback steamer Christopher Columbus made its first excursion of the season from Chicago to Milwaukee Saturday. On the return trip, while off Waukegan, a valve connecting one of the vessel’s hoHers with “the steam pipes leading fo'the engine burst, causifif ffie deatff'lli" two firemen and scalding more or less seriously ten others of the passengers and crew. It.is said a race was on with the Virginia, a rival boat. His Trust Cost His Life. C. B. Birch, receiving teller for the West Chicago Street Railway Company at its Armitage avenue car barns, was shot four times by a masked robber at 2:30 o’clock Sunday morning and died three hours later at St. Elizabeth Hospital. The murderer escaped, after securing but a little cash. A former employe has been arrested on suspicion-,.