Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1898 — SUMMARY OF NEWS. [ARTICLE]

SUMMARY OF NEWS.

EAn attempted train robbery near SoMalia, Mo., was foiled by six detectives ieoncenled in the express car. One robber gwas captured after a lively fight arid punch shooting. Gen. Lord Kitchener appeals to the [{British public to subscribe £IOO,OOO to ■found and maintain the/Gordon Memorial SCollege at Khartoum, with a view of eduieating the Soudanese, r k Export robbers held up the police station sat Laugueuil, Canada, lagged the policelinen on duty and looted the municipal ■safe. They also robbed several stores, getting away with about,¥lo,ooo in cash. R. C. Eddy, a lawyer from Chicago, has Ipraetically succeeded in effecting a cu:'.sIbinution of the linseed oil interests of the country. It is said that the capital stock Of the new combination will be fixed at |80, 000,000. Joaquin Miller, the poet of the Sierras, has notified the Harpers -that he will sue them for libel because they published ari article asserting that lie was supported in Alaska by the benevolence of miners who admired him. Claude M. Johnson, director of the bureau of engraving arid printing, in his annual report shows that during the year there were 92.979.478 sheets of sis nips and government securities printed and delivered at a cost of $1,570.'AW. While boring for oil on Siiminerland beach, near Santa Barbara, Cal., a marvelous flow of natural gas has boon struck, throwing sand and rocks a number of feet into the air. It is pronounced the biggest strike ever made in the M ost. : Figures to date indicate a gold production for Colorado this year of $2K,M0.000. Cripple Creek's November gold output Was 36.450 tons,'worth $1,177,560. The aStnelters treated 11 <■ iO tons of an average bvalue of $72. Mill ore ratigcd from $-20 :to S3O a ton. | At Shippenshurg, Pa-., Max Boyne, a :young Ulan employed around the depot, thad an epileptic lit and fell up against an engine, lie was being slowly roasted to !death when discovered by the little son of the yardmaster. lie is horribly burned, (but may recover. |- The details of the new German army (bill Show the Prussian peace contingent =tvill be increased by 11,424 men ami 2,8,>0 horses. The Saxon contingent will be increased by 2.073 men. llerr Eugene Bichter, the radical leader, calls this Germany's answer to the Czar’s disarmament (proposal. b Officials of the United States Express Company in Denver have been notified that its office in Almoiia, Kan., was robbed the other night. The safe was opened and a package was taken containing $3,000 in greenbacks that had been sent, by the Standard Meat and Live Stock Xbompnny of Denver to its agent at 'Aliment. llow much more was taken is not known. f The suit of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Hailway Company in the Unitled States Distric t Court in New York to compel the Western Union Telegraph Company to affix and pay for the revenue stamps required by the* war revenue law on the telegraphic messages transmitted (under its contract with the railway company has been dismissed at the railway company's costs. I* Annie Lansk.v, 23 years old, committed suieide at the homo of her sister, Mrs. Annie I’ineoss, in Chicago, by strangling herself. The- young woman had been demented for more than a year, it is said, and had frequently threatened to end her life. Mrs. I’ineoss left-lier sister alone,in the house wlnle she went shopping. When she returned she called for Annie, hut, received no response. She then searched the house and in a closet in the- kitchen she found Miss Lansky's, body. She bad doubled a rope about lver neck and then ended her life by drawing the ends together.