Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1898 — EVENTS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

EVENTS OF THE WEEK

RRRMpw steamer Cleveland Ims been posted ■Mee Sept. 27 ns due at San Francisco St. Michael's. As nothing has been of the Cleveland there is general ■RRfbeling that some accident has befalh-B dispatch from Poteau. I. T.. says it is RHHEorted on reliable authority there that RfflWohn I). Rockefeller has completed uegoRmßhlous for the leasing of over I.IMMt.OUO ■Hm of land in the Choctaw and CheroRmBM nations for oil and coal purposes. MV'The Austrian war office has been experiwith automobile transport wagand gun earriagess. 'Die experiments RHKibved highly successful and it is said that and gun carriages of this chnracwill lie adopted by the military author Rjßß‘Au Indianapolis girl a few months ago RBHbtnmitte<l suicide because her lover had RHHilled himself on her refusing at the altar RKo marry him. Her mother soon after herself in a puddle. Two sons the family, left alone, enlisted, and were killed in Cuba. McKavitt, a widow, residing in 24th street. Sen York, recently <<>mRRK'uittcd suicide under peculiar circuniShe lived with her son Pat. RRMhoae desire to get married distressed her RHtaetitly. Recently he made a secret mar RBHbge. and when his mother heard of it she herself with carbolic acid, alleging RHMkat life had no other interest for her. SKI Following is the standing of the clubs the National Baseball League: W. L. W. L RH Because his men were not furnished HMlHth rations Captain E. V. Walsh of CoinF, First Missouri Volunteers, NHaarched his company past the guard at R|Hkeff<*rson barracks ami dismissed them — RRP* thing uniuiralleled in military history. men had assembled at the end of RHKheir thirty days' furlough to be musterout. but no provision hail been made RMRBtor feeding them. RH B.The board of health of St. Louis has RRHkdopted a resolution asking Congres-man ■■wart hold t to introduce in Congress his RHlpill to stop Chicago from emptying its RHntwage into the Illinois ami finally into RHghe Mississippi River. Drs. Starkloff. RKiHughes and Grill, the medical members RH Of the board, agree that the effect of the RHioperation of the canal will be to isdlirte water supply of St. Louis. RH RsF. Tennyson Neely, of New York, gave RKCa dinner to several men at 1 •elmonico's RBHRTuesday night and afterward called on of them to speak. Among the was Gen. Panic] E. Sickles, forRRp merly minister to Spain, who declar.-d ■RMBbflt the peace commission sitting in ParRK l* was a farce, that no agreement would ■[be reached and that hostilities between and the United States would lie rewithin three months. RK t The fellow-conspirators of Romero EKf-Robledo ami General Weyler. recruited the army and from civil life, are feverishly in the conviction that opportunity is now or never to l»e RRBer takes seriously his farcical role of (Ytesar and he is planning a gencoup which by its scope and its cnershall paralyze the forces of resistance ■Eat the command of the monarchy.