Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1899 — EVENTS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

EVENTS OF THE WEEK

The publication of official figures rewarding Germany's export shows that the ■ exports to the United States last year Ettnounted to $82,350,514, against $97,887,088 for 1897. The decrease was al- | most wholly in sugar. t The American Society of Heating and Engineers elected these offiBeers: Preskient, Henry Adams, WashingI ton; first vice-president, D. M. Quay, Chircago; secretary, Willintn Mackay, New KYork; treasurer, J. A. Goodrich, PhiladelIpbia. | The President and Mrs. McKinley ret eently informally celebrated the twenty- | eighth anniversary of their wedding. A t quantity of flowers were received by Mrs. i McKinley from the cabinet ladies, and | other prominent people sent their congrat- | ulations. I The dead bodies of Charles N. O'Hara ! and his wife have been found in a hole in tone corner of their ranch, near Barr, IColo. They had been missing for several I days, and a search was instituted by the I authorities, resulting in their being found J with both their skulls crushed. ; Three weeks ago a farmer named Kel- ! lerman, near Fairbury, Neb., butchered l a hog afflicted with trichinae. The family, I comprising himself, wife ami seven chilI dren, partook of meat which was insufficiently cooked. Three days later a daughI ter and afterward the mother, after fearful suffering, expired. h Rear Admiral Lord Charles Beresford, who has been visiting Chinese ports, has sailed from Yokohama for the United States, on his way to England. In an interview previous to his departure the admiral laid emphasis upon the necessity of an understanding between Japan, Geri many, the United States and Great Brit’ain in order to prevent war in the far East. ‘ An application for a receiver for the Wabash Valley Gas Company, the Dieterich syndicate, with $1,750,000 capital, was made in the United States Court at ‘Baltimore by the American Bonding and jTrust Company of Baltimore. This is the syndicate that controls most of the natural gas companies in the Indiana cilies and which was reported recently to have ‘bought up all the electric light plants in (eastern and southern Indiana and Ohio. K George Eberhart of New York was shot I and killed by a burglar, who had been tdiseovered working at a window from a f stepladder which he had let down from a |roof. The alarm was given and policemen | and citizens joined in a man hunt. Eberf hart, aroused by the commotion, looked | out of his rear window near the fire es- | cape, up which the burglar was climbing lin order to cscajie over the roof. Eber- | hart seized a board and bit the burglar rover the head. As he did so the latter Ifired. IC. R. Troxel, attorney for Grant G. I Gillett, ex-millionaire cattle king, and I James H. Arnold of Kansas City, one of I the heaviest creditors of Gillett, have arfrived at El Paso, Texas, from Chihuahua, I Mexico. Arnold says that negotiations I? With Gillett looking to a settlement of the matter's affairs with his creditors are now Bunder way and everything points to satisfactory arrangements being completed betfore March 1, when Gillett will return to E his home in Kansas. I k Alaskan mail facilities will be greatly by a contract made by the GovBcniineut with the Pacific Steam Whaling B Company, which provides for a postal serK vice to the Aleutian Islands. A monthly 1 mail ■will leave Sitka for Yakuta, Mitehik, SOrca, Valdes, Zlodovia, Kodiak, Kariuk, ®‘Sand Point, Unga, Belkofsky and Una- | laska. In addition the service will be exit tended by stag routes to inland towtis in E Alaska, as well as to the entire Cook's | Inlet country. Mail will leave Seattle. K” A sick and destitute man, 55 .wars old, K was taken from an east side tenement Ehouse in New York to the department for | outdoor poor. He gave the name of LawKfence Schraeder. He was dying from B want of nutritive food. A few days afterfcward a letter addressed to Schraeder was ■ brought to the superintendent of the institution. It contained a check for $5,EOOO and had been sent from England as E Schraeder's long-delayed share in his E father's estate. Schraeder, however, had I died and the money arrived just in time S to prevent his burial in the potter’s field.