Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 February 1899 — WEEK'S NEWS RECORD [ARTICLE]

WEEK'S NEWS RECORD

The general passenger agents of all railroads south of the Ohio River have entered into an agreement to abolish secret rates, and to send out a notification to all agents wheu special rates for any pur* , pose are made. Net profits of the Pittsburg Plate (.lass Company for the past year were announced at the annual fleeting to have been more than $1,000,000. At the annual meeting of the stockholders A. W. Mellon was chosen ehairmnu. Electricity is to l»e installed as the motive power for the Manhattan Elevated Railway at New York, ami $18,000,000 of additional stock will be issued to meet the expense. It is expected that the change will save $1,000,000 a year in operating expenses. Private information has been received in 'Washington that Duke d’Arcos, formerly Spnuish minister to Mexico, is likely to be designated by the Madrid Government as its minister to Washington to exchange the ratifications of the treaty of Paris. A letter from Morgantown, Butler County, Ky., says an epidemic of spotted fever, or spina! meningitis, is raging there, old and young dying rapidly. It is imjK)ssible to estimate how many have died, and there is no one able to report the true condition. Right Rev. John Williams, 1). I>., LL. 1).. of Middletown, Conn., died of grip, aged 81 years. lie was bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church, diocese of Connecticut, and senior member of the bouse of bishops of the Episcopal Church in America. A. C. Fowler, a well-known patent attorney, was attacked in an elevator in the Bank of Commerce Building at St. Louis by A. M. Leslie, a surgical instrument manufacturer. Fowler was dangerously stabbed with a pocket knife in the right side of the neck and in the abdomen. Fred Scott, a member of the Terre Haute, I ml., colored fire company, was shot and fatally wounded by Charles Clark, a barber, in the presence of the lire committee of the city council. Scott, it is alleged, while intoxicated, drove Clark and his wife fromtheir home at the point of a revolver. The President has caused to be promulgated the sentence in the ease of Gen. Charles P. Eagan. The court martial sentence was dismissal from the army and the l’residcut has commuted this to six years’ suspensiou from duty, which covers the remainder of the time prior to Gen. Eagan’s retirement in January, 1905, The Judiciary Committee of the House has by a unanimous vote decided to recommend the repeal of what is said to be the lust remnant of disqualification against men who served in the Confederacy, the section of the revised statutes which provides that such persons shall not serve as jurors in-4he United States courts. A fire at Prairie dn Chien, Wis„ destroyed eleven business houses. The following are the losses: I*. Uher & .Son, shoe store: Boucher & Mticket, grocery: Horace Beach, hardware; McFotlcr’s art gallery; Mrs. Kelt, millinery; John Koch, tailor; Zimmerman, jewelry store; Poehler & Bon, grocery; C. Greele, dry goods: 11. Beach, art studie. The total loss is SIOO,OOO. A desperate attempt was made to hold up the Jackson-lone stage. The stage left Jackson, Cal., with the driver, Peter l’odesta, Messenger McConnell and two workmen on botrrd. When about four miles out two robbers concealed behind rocks on the roadside opened fire, hitting McConnell twice in the shoulder and Podesta once in the hand. The horses were put to a gallop and they got beyond the range of the robbers’ guns. The stage had some treasure from the mines’ on board, but the shipment that day wits comparatively light.