Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 58, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 March 1907 — Telegraphic Brevities. [ARTICLE]

Telegraphic Brevities.

The Hardman Rubber Company’s plant at Belleville. N. J., was destroyed by fire, involving a loss of >250,000. The Y. M. C. A. building in Utica, N. Y., was completely destroyed by fire. The loss will be upward of >150,000. Crossed electric wires caused a fire at Cincinnati which destroyed the Ohio Carriage Company’s plant. Loss >70,000, fully covered by insurance. The coroner is investigating the death of Mrs. A. M. Darling, who was found dead with her skull crushed at her horns in Oberlin, Ohio. Chief of Police George G. Sheets of Salt Lake City, charged with conspiracy to defraud tourists by protecting gamblers who fleeced them, was held for trial. While preparations were being made at Spartanburg. S. 0., to hang John Shelton, a negro, convicted of killing his fath-er-in law, Sheriff Nichols received an order from Chief Justice Pope of the Supreme Court staying the execution until April 19.