Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1898 — WEEK’S NEWS RECORD [ARTICLE]

WEEK’S NEWS RECORD

HL. N. Prescott died at his summer home Joseph. Mich. He was formerly of the Chronicle at Farmington, Hfc., and for many years was connected H(th the Treasury department at WiishHgton. Bperrific storms have swept over MaeeHonia. doing an enormous amount of d«mH|e and causing considerable loss of life. Bom l instance a caravan consisting of Btrty-seven people and I<H* horses were Kguifcd iii the River Galice and all were Browned. ■ A wedding of international importance. Hud one of the greatest social events of the occurred at St. Thomas’ Church, tn Kew York, when Miss Marie Churchill Became Mrs. Harold Raring. Harold Bar Bkf is one of the great English hanking Bnn. Baring Brothers. BJames Wentworth Osgood is dead at his Home in New York, aged HI! years. When H young man he worked on the Boston Hranscript. Later lie moved to Columbus, Bpio, and published books, and afterward H) Vandulia. 111., where he set up the tirst Bower press in Illinois. ■ Oil application of United States District ■Literacy Dodge Judge Kicks of the Suited States Circuit Court has granted Ktftaporary injunction restraining the city Bf Cleveland from dumping river dredgBps or other refuse in the lake, except by ■permission of the War Department. H[Tlie American Association of Fairs and ■Expositions lias fixed the following dates Hor Stute fairs to be held in 1899: New ■York and lowa. Aug. 28 to Sept. 2: MinBesota and Nebraska, Sept. 4 to 0; Wis■consin, Sept. 11 to It!; Indiana. Sept. 18, n> 23: Illinois. Sept. 2a to 30; St. Louis, ■Oct. 2 to 7. B Bids for extending the north and south ■jetties at Yaqnina 1 Bay were opened by ■Major W. L. Fisk at the United States ■engineers’ office in Portland. Ore. ChrisItie, Lowe & Heywooth of Chicago were ■the lowest bidders, their bid being $511,■945. There were eight other bids, rungling from $008,790 to $847,(188. I M rs. ('lara Kluge, who claims to have ■been the contract wife of the late Adolph ISutro, has commenced a legal tight at San (Francisco for some of the Sutro millions Iby filing an application /or letters for gtuirdiansliip over her two children, who ■renamed in the application Adolph Newton Sutro and Adolphine Charlotte Sutro. f. A rear-end collision on the Union Pacific at Omaha. Neb., resulted in the death of three men and the serious injury of one other. Au extra freight train standing on the side track and the switch being left often, freight No. 27, going at a good rate of speed, crashed into the rear end of the extra. The ■ugine was badly wrecked and four freight ears reduced almost to spfin‘ters. I‘ The striking women's tailors in New .York announce that some of the richest and most aristocratic women of New York had organized to aid them. Mrs. F. W. Vanderbilt, Mrs. Seth Low and others are named as members of a league which will demand on all gowns a guaranty label that union wages were paid for their making and that the work was done in sanitary quarters. : At St. Lou is, Ramon Basail. teller of the Mexi can National Bank, City of Mexico, was robbed of $4,300 in drafts on American banks, a SI,OOO Mexican bill. SBO in American money and a number of railroad tickets by a negress of whom he inquired the direction to the Union station. Mr. Basail is making a tour of the United ■ States inspecting (he banking system. He was left without a cent. At St. Paul, Minn., Daniel Coughlin, a blind retired railroad engineer, shot and killed his young sister-in-law, Miss Katie Marriuan, and then fatally wounded himselw. Mrs. Coughlin discovered the dead bodies and became nearly crazed over the tragedy. The mother of the two women receutly died, leaving SI,OOO to the unmarried daughter. Coughlin quarreled with his wife's sister over the bequest. When the regular night express train arrived at Susquehanna. Pa., the engineer, Henry Kingsley of Susquehanna, was foutid dead in the cab with his head badly crushed. Train bands had noticed he had answered no signals since leaving Binghamton, and the train had run at a terrific speed twenty miles without an engi-'* neer. There were over 200 passengers on board. It is supposed the engineer was hit by a water crane at a point just east of Binghamton.