Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1898 — MMARY OF NEWS. [ARTICLE]

MMARY OF NEWS.

■Spear-end collision occurred on the Ijgrlvania Railroad, throe niilbs from pay, N. J., resulting in the loss two and aerious though not fatal injuries ui* persons. Thick fog is blamed for tccident. iiunissioncr Herrmann of the general I announced the logging of dead down timber will be resumed on the jtewa Indian reservation in Minnetbis winter, but will not be continued }. this year. en. Corbin has issued the prejary orders providing for the muster I at 50,000 volunteers in the nest pu This action marks the final pnssOf the volunteer army organized for war with Spain. le provincial court at Berlin has ac*d Frank Knnak of New York of the ge of lese majesty in referring to Era:|t| t William as a sheep's head, because, jjf Appears, Mr. Kuaak was drunk when |i ommitted the offense, v iliiatn Simms, a soldier, who murderlobert Norton, a citizen of Town f dt, six miles from Decatur, Ala., while country dance, was dragged from the ity jail by a nml* of 500 men and 1; hed. Ilis body was riddled with buly reports a fight near Flat Top, || I between revenue officers and moont ers in which Sam May of Coburn, one of the revenue raiders, nnd two ? Is companions were killed. The fataliamong the moonshiners arc not M *“• p4e hi the case of W. S. Jewett, ‘ lerly president of the Lake National • k of Wolfboro, N. H., charged with |j embezzlement of $25,000, said to have Butted while settling the affairs of the k, brought in a verdict of guilty at lon., ft |e Drake & Stratton Company of ... aburg has received a contract from t > United States Government for the Mjirnction of a great dock at Havana, |l and a short railroad to Morro Cas- ; Costing altogether about $500,000. The s>any has dispatched r.K) laborers to ' bland. : Iss Margaret Ytodgo, 50 years old, a kknowii literary worker, was found 1 in a gallery pew by the janitor of . Church of St. John the Evangelist in . | Ton, Mass. She had hidden in the ? rch after the evening service and end- ’ ler fife with cynnnide of potassium, a ’ by her side revealing this fact. avid Shea, an ex-convict, deliberately * imltted suicide in a rooming house in ; Louis by shooting himself in the head. ,' A pathetic letter left by Shea he says if was driven to death by a private dctecs|t agency ns a result of being hounded J: the agency. Shea declares he was un- <- i to obtain work to sustain himself ,|.j estly and he decided to die. - f fter a two days' meeting at Toledo, t : American Sheep Breeders’ Association , ourned. Following are the newly electj officers: President, John E. Webb, Ini napolis; vice-president, tl It. Hall Way. ia, Mich.; secretary-treasurer, E. V. f ‘pnham, Woodstock, Ohio; directors, j right 1 rincoln, Illinois; W. S. Ilnnson, s?th, and Mr. Benner, Belle Center, Ohio, j ; -ov. Johnson has offered substantial reIrds for the arrest of some Mississippi Hers who eommitted a cowardly deed | Alabama. The First Mississippi volun;rs had been mustered out of the ser- •: ;at Columbia, Tenn., and were passing j rough Alabama en route home. As the tin rolled through Entaw a number of | men fired through the coach windows a party of women nml children who 1 assembled ta»houor their return. One man was killed nnd a little girl’s eye .« shot o«T* The train kept on its way cpferidian, Miss., not many miles away, s difficult to locate the offenders and a ole company may be arrested.