Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 December 1898 — WEEK'S NEWS RECORD [ARTICLE]

WEEK'S NEWS RECORD

rThe official time of the torpedo boat dd■troyer Farragut has been computed and ■er record is 30.6 knots an hour, with ■26 revolutions of the screw. The Farragut is the fastest vessel flying the AnieriCan flag. > & The Grand Lodge of Virginia Masons has invited the Prince of Wales to attend the Masonic celebration to be held in Alexandria Dec. 14, 1899, the one hunjjfredth anniversary of the death of Genfirar Washington, F Howard Gould will not be called upon ffo sacrifice any part of his fortune as a jfefhilt of his recent marriage to Miss Katherine Clemmons, The other Gould heirs decline to profit by his disregard of father’s wishes. | Fastened in a high chair, Ida Laycock, |the 13-nionths-o!d daughter of Mrs, Mary of Philadelphia, fell upon the Stove during the absence of her mother, and was held, until burned to death, by •the fetters which were meaut to keep her jtrom harm. L Patrick Shacker, of Portage, 0., was held up on the country ■ rojid. six miles Bauth of Toledo by t wo masked highw;iy*nen, who took S3O in money, his overcoat, coat, vest, shoes, watch. 1 gold cross, And wound up by compelling him to hand ipver his false teeth. I Four-year-old Eddie Hull, of St. Louis, died from an overdose of whisky, after the physicians at the city hospital had laSjort il trying to eradicate the effects of fthe overstimulation, The-lad clandestinely drank tlie liquor at his home, gulping down a half-pint of the .stuff,. I William Vannoy, SO years old, lives alone Oh bis farm, twelve miles from Lincoln; Neb, He has money and docs not trust banks. The other night two flinknowp men visited him, beat and gagged hini and secured what money they • could find, between S4OO ami .*..>00. k The question of postponing the Paris Exjiosition to 19*11 is being seriously discussed. The reason for this-is that work on tin* exposition grounds ami buildings is in arrears as a result of the recent Strike and also there is alleged inefficiency on the part of cert ahi heads of departments. | A tenement-house at 1728 Franklin avenue, St. Louis, occupied by eleven families, aggregating sixty persons, was set on fire by some one unknown before sunrise the other day, and but for the quickness of Claude Browne; a 12-year-bld boy living next door, who alarmed the occupants, many lives would have been lost. ~ | Detective George Bryant will be the first Kansas City officer to be promoted for bringing in a dead burglar or footpad. He arrested .John Itaffel, colored, on the charge of burglary. Itaffel broke away from the officer and refused to obey the command to stop. Bryant fired once •in the air, then took deliberate aim and shot Itaffel between the shoulders, iufiicting a fatal wound. | John Tully, a stevedore, saved the life of one man and rescued the body of another after an explosion of ammonia gas .on board the United States hospital ship Bay State, which lies at the foot of Pacific street, Brooklyn. The accident was due apparently to carelessness. Robert j-Twist, the man in charge of the ship’s Refrigerating plant, in which the ammonia Is used, was killed by the explosion.

A St. I'aul A Duluth l ruin of forty cars, loaded with wheat. Struck one of the supJt ports of the fith street steel bridge in St, Paul, Minn. About loti feet of the bridge ; fell. A. Cohen, a collector, was on the • bridge at the time, and went down in the ■ wreck, sustaining internal injuries which may cause his death, The damage to the ' bridge is estimated at S2O.(MM), and to the train at $2,600. One of the wheat cars jumped the track as it approached the ,/bridge. I The Secretary of the Treasury has I transmitted to Congress the estimates /of appropriations required for the service j of the fiscal year ending .June .'l6, 1900, as : furnished by the several executive departments. These estimates, including permanent annual appropriations, aggregate $593,048,378, as against $808,875,513. the amount of the appropriations, int eluding deficiencies and the miscellaneous, for the fiscal year 1599. and $4(12,647.885 | the amount of the estimates sos 1899. Appropriations for the military establishment for the fiscal year 1899 amounted to $287,841,446. Postmaster General estimates the deficiency in the postal revenues for 1960 at $4,265,888.