Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1898 — WEEK'S NEWS RECORD [ARTICLE]

WEEK'S NEWS RECORD

1 • Wilmer Stone. the chairman of the ■Committee on Bird Protection, addressed ■ the American Ornithological Union in ■ Washington. Traffic in American birds M has been reduced to a minimum, but the ■Mae of imported species goes on unabated. K'The engagement is announced of Miss f Fannie Halbert Mills, daughter of I’nited ■ States Senator Koger (>. Mills of Texas, ■jto. First Lieutenant George Richards, I United States marine corps, who served ■in the war with Spain on the cruiser ■ Newark. - ‘ John Shanley, of South Bond. Ind., was ■murdered in a St, Paul billiard saloon. BBhanlcy. who had been on a prolonged ■ Spree. knocked against the cue of James ■ Bose, spoiling his shot, and the latter Krtrnek Shanley over the head with the ■ cue, fracturing his skull. I 111 11 general row in the colored quarters ■of Cheyene. Wyo,. three soldiers were ■ Shot. They are L. Fontenough. 11. Mitch- ' ell and William Saumb-rs. All will rei cover. The shooting was done by t'or-t-poral Seott of Company E of the San Juan heroes, who was arrested. te A private letter received in Terre ’Haute, Ind., from Jacksonville, Fla., states that Major B. !•'. II vens is to be named as resident paymaster in Cuba, with headquarters in Havana, and Major Russell B. Harrison is booked for the position of provost marshal of Havana. The bill providing for a treaty commis- • uion was lost in the Cherokee Senate at Tahlequah, I. T., by a tie vote. The Cherokees will now be governed by the ■ Curtis bill. By the terms of |he bill the were given theirchoice of treating r with the Dawes commission or accepting the provisions of the Curtis bill. William Murray. 70 years old, was ■ found dead on the floor of his house in the outskirts of the village of Beaverton, Ont. His head was terribly crushed and a piece of wood and a poker found in the : house‘were covered with blood and gray hair. Edward Elliott, aged 13, and James Mcllattie. aged Hi, were arrested, fecharged with the crime and also with robbing the place. Eliott confessed. Mrs. Barnes, who has figured much in ■the courts and afterward married ex- > Mayor Magowan of Trenton, N. J., came to Cleveland with her husband and kidnaped her 7-year-old daughter from the legal custody of her grandmother. Mrs. Barnes had got away on a Lajte Shore train before the child’s abduction was discovered. The abductors were intercepted on a Lake Shore train nt Erie, I’a., and placed under arrest. I In his annual report State Department Consul General Bittinger, at Montreal, says’that Canada is about to make an important change in her postage rates. On the 25th of December there ! will be three rates of postage on letters, : 2 cents for Great Britain and her colonies, 3 cents for Canada and the United States, and 5 cents for foreign countries. If the experiment proves satisfactory the , postmaster general, it is understood, will then reduce letter postage for Canada ; and to the I’nited States to 2 cents. After Jan. 1 next the newspaper rate will be l-i Of n cent a pound, but after July 1 this will be increased to >/, cent a pound. - At the instanc e of the Governor of Ari- | Bona the State Department at WashingE ton has instructed I’nited States Minister t Clayton at the City of Mexico to demand ’ the surrender, under extradition proceedI Ings, of Temple, the American railroad conductor who is held under arrest by the i Mexicans near Nogales on the charge of E killing a Mexican in the I’nited States. If the Mexican Government concedes the justice of this demand, which is not p doubted. Temple will be tried in the F United States, and once more the principle of extra-territorial jurisdiction claimed by Mexico will have escaped a test I’ issue, although our government is on rec- : ord as having, by its demand for Temple's ■’ release, repudiated that principle. ■ . Secretary Alger, after a conference with Adjutant General Corbin and Major Shaler, of the ordnance bureau, has de- | elded that the I’nited States armories have progressed with the manufacture of Krag-Jorgensen rifles to a point where ’ he could undertake to arm the entire “ army with this weapon. At the outbreak of the war only the regular soldiers had the small bore rifles and the volunteers were necessarily armed with the Springs' field, except in a few cases, such as that of the rough riders. The armories have been running steadily ever since, turning out the small bore rille at the rate of 9,000 per month, until the stock on hand : warrants the undertaking which the see--5 retary has ordered.