Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 86, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1902 — INANUTSHELL [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

INANUTSHELL

Whitmer’s lumber yards, Keyser, W. Va., burned. Loss $75,000, insurance $35,000. J. F. Kurth, a wealthy miller of Crosby, Mo., was drowned while fishing with a party of friends in the Platte, near his home. Rush Bell was shot and instantly killed at Lafkin, Texas. Andy Nelson surrendered and was locked up on a charge of murder. Tom Dilly, a cattleman, shot and instantly killed Steve Chipman, a prominent sheepman, and shot Chipman’s Mexican herder through the left hip, eight miles north of Sunnyside, U. The men quarreled over range rights. It la announced that Miss Jean, daughter of Mrs. Langtry, will be married shortly to lan Z. Malcolm, M. P; All surveying parties working for tha Burlington Railroad have been called in. It is said that no new extensions of tha system are now contemplated. The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers has petitioned Congress and tha President to have three battleships constructed in the government navy yards. James Ewing Shot and killed N. E. West because of an old grudge. Tha killing occurred sixteen miles southeast sf Miami, L T., near Grand river.