Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1903 — Brief News Items. [ARTICLE]

Brief News Items.

Six negroes tunneled out of Paducah, Ky., Jail. . James Whitcomb, Eekinnn, W. Ve., •hot, and killed Mary Williams. Jealous. Clifton Minton and Fred Ward wers killed in a boiler explbuioo, Trimble, Tenn. It Is said that tbe crown nrincess of Saxony and M. Giron will come to this Country. lowa Supreme Court decides that the cigarette law is valid, it imposes a fine of |3OO on dealers who handle "rets.” , Botho Struble, New York, who sent a threatening letter to J. P. Morgan, was sentenced to one year in prison and fined 8100. F. P. Roberge, veterinarian, New York, has sned the Robert Bonner estate for SIOO,OOO. He says be attended Bonner’* horses for twenty-three years and received no pay. v < “Spy oak," said, to be tbe largest tree In New York, has been condemned as unsafe and will be Pelham road, Westchester. Spies and deserters -wefe-hanged to U daring the Revolutionary War.