Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1902 — Interesting News Items. [ARTICLE]

Interesting News Items.

J. C. Loving, secretary of the Texas Cattle Association, is dead in Fort Worth. He was an old resident of Texas, having -lived there since 1844. Mr. Loving was 06 years of age. The control of the Manhattan Railway Company in New York City has passed to the Subway Company, giving the latter company ninety-seven and threefourths miles of street railway. While attempting to board a moving street car, John Chinski, Jr., a clerk employed at the Nelson Morris packing bouse plant in South St. Joseph, Mo., lost his life. Chinski came to this country from Russia four months ago. C. R. Smith was serioqaly hurt in the Marshall mine at Galena, Kan., by large boulder falling from the roof. Both his arms were broken, his bead and back badly bruised and he was also hurt internally. Wayne Brumfield was instantly killed near Guyau Falls, W. Ya., during a pistol duel with Henry Tiller. Twenty years ago the fathers of these two men engaged in a shooting affray which resulted in Tiller being killed. Friday’s trouble is traced to the old tragedy. Jules Masou, vice-president of the Plasant Valley Company at Hammondeport, N. Y.. died at the age of 80 years. He was considered the leading champagne expert In America. E. R. Root, a brakeman on the Kansas 6ity Southern, who sued the company for $50,000 damages for personal injuries, was awarded 18.000 by a Jury in the Circuit Court at Butler. Mo. New York capitalists are to expend 825,000,000 in construction of the San Diego and Eastern Railway from Fan Diego, CaL. to Yuma, and thence to a. transcontinental connection in ArUona.