Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 99, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1904 — Interesting News Items. [ARTICLE]

Interesting News Items.

William Zeler killed his father-in-law, William Surkamp, with a crowbar and then stabbed his wife to death with a butcher knife in Omaha, Neb. The killing followed a quarrel between Zeler and his wife. The Methodist Minister*' Association of Denver appointed a committee to investigate the labor troubles in Colorado and fix the responsibility for the chaotic conditions In the Cripple Creek district and elsewhere. Roscoe Gorrie, 23 years old, was drowned while swimming In Cow creek, four miles north of Hutchinson, Kan. Hs tried to cross the swift current, but was seized with a cramp and went down In twelve feet of water. Aa a result of a raid by deputy sheriffs on a gambling house In Memphis, Tenn., Deputy Houston Mitchell is dead and Deputy Thomas J. McDermott is mortally wounded. Frequent raids have been made in crap games recently. Col. Sylvester R. Burch of Olathe, Kan., chief clerk of the Department of Agriculture, has been appointed by Secretary Wilson as the representative of the department on the government board of She Louisiana Purchase Exposition to succeed the late J. H. Bingham. Becoming conscience stricken at a ie llgloua meeting in Chicago, a man giving his name as Charles F. Floethe has, according to the poUce, confessed to having robbed his employers in Jersey City, St Louis, Cincinnati and Chicago of various sums. His confession Is being Investigated.