Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1898 — WEEK'S NEWS RECORD [ARTICLE]

WEEK'S NEWS RECORD

At Roekport. Mo.. Lloyd and Joseph Henderson and Frank Dorst, farmers, were buried in a sandbank in which they were digging, and were dead when taken out. The annual pageant <>f the Veiled Prophet at St. Louis was a grand success. After the march the coronation of Miss Marie Theresa Scanlon as queen took place. The Rev. Dr. Briggs of Austin, Texas, has been acquitted of immorality, though found guilty- of falsifying in minor matters. by.the-jury of the Methodist Church South. Ilatry Goldberg, a 12-year-old lad, who disnj>p<-ared from La Porte, Ind., two years apo and who was said to have been murdered, has been found in Chicago, where he is at work. New York’s State superintendent of public instruction, Charles It. Skinner, ha a issued a statement disapproving of the various movements started to raise money in the public schools for patriotic purjioses. .1 tulson Crossman died in the Eastern Hospital. Williamsburg. N. V.. from the effects of a dental operation. A postmortem examination revealed the fact that his jaw- -hud been broken and a main artery ruptured.

The four-masted schooner Surnli E. Palmer, Captain Whittier, with phosphate rook from Charlotte harbor to Carteret, N. J., was lost off Stone Inlet, seven miles south of Charleston, S. C. The entire erew of eight men was drowned. Dr. L. C. Morgan, while on his way home home from visiting a jiatient in the eouutry. was decoyed into si house near HarroiLsbiirg, Ky., by three negroes, who tried to rob him. He resisted and they shot him, injuring him so badly that he died a few hours later. A collective note of Croat Britain, France, Italy and Russia, demanding the withdrawal of the Turkish troops from the island of Crete, has been presented to the Turkish Government. It insists that the Turkish troops must evacuate the island of Crete within a month. Queen Victoria and her daughter, the ex-Enipress Frederick of (lermany, had a narrow eseii|>e from death while driving at Balmoral. Scotland. The eouehtuan lost control of the horses and a serious accident was only avert«j}J>y the horses turning into the woods, where the carriage stuck between the trees. Following is the standing of the clubs in the National Baseball League: W. L. W. L. Bostou .....1)7 45 Philadelphia. 70 OS Baltimore .. .1)1 DO Pittsburg ....Oil 711 Cincinnati ..DO 58 Louisville ...05 7!) Cleveland ...77 01 Brooklyn ....51 85 Chicago ....Ml 05 Washington. 50 93 New York.. .73 09St. Louis. ... .37 105 More and more distressing are the hourly rejHirts from fever-infected towns in Mississippi. Ten counties and thirteen towns are infected. All travel from point to point inside State limits is forbidden. Thousands of laborers and wage-earners have been thrown out of work and must depend upon charily for support until after frost. Owing to the controversy that has ensued over the succession to the title of “Daughter of the Confederacy,” Mrs, Jefferson Ihivis has determined, it is said, not to have the inscription placed on the gravestone of her daughter. Miss Winnie Davis, who died Sept. 18. at Narragansett Pier, and who now rests lieside her father, the former President of the Confederacy, in Hollywood, Richmond. Ya. A fatal boiler explosion occurred at the sawmill of Laherty & Lee. located six miles from Verdi, N’ev.. in which two lives were lost and three persons seriously injured. The entire plant was completely destroyed and not a fragment of the boiler was to be found. The explosion was caused by tile engineer allowing the boiler to run dry ami attempting to till it with cold water.