Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 March 1899 — SUMMARY OF NEWS. [ARTICLE]

SUMMARY OF NEWS.

B'Ktamutt A. Ayres. under conviction for ■Buster in the second degree. and James ■jfonkey.. a cartie thief.* escaped from the Karety jail st Denver by sawing their ■ra® tritrough the bars of a window and jumping to the ground. fc Tan steamships which left American ■BEto fi»r Europe (hiring the latter part KtJfamary are still missing, and the inKjMBHF gteminnis have been advanced to ■B.gmneas. the “obituary rate,” as it is ■Bawm. among insurance men. p-.3fcak. Mary Jane Waits, aged 100 years ■bnumths and Kt days, died in W'illiams■BOK. •Mliu. She was born in Chillicothe, ftfco, April 30. 1798. She had twelve dWlifrwi thirty*three grandchildren and ■Kty-une I'Tsifrr ifiplomatic pressure Persia has fttli the claim of Dr. E. G. WisBbeA. nn American missionary at ShinehMM. whose house, with the connivance of BUfifiers. was- robbed in June, 1898. of bfmdb- trained at 2JHI tomans (about $350). k The syndicate known as the InternaVsnui Tbwer Company, in which Joseph K»ter of Chteago is interested, has secur«C I*o Rhode Island locomotive works ac Ftwditenre. R. I. The locomotive huve been idle several years, but ifiey will start up very soon. > Prilminary steps have been taken at t&f Waldorf-Astoria. New York, to form :a fßiymww knit-goods trust. A comifcdtwe was named to visit all the factories ijw *Be country and report on the capacity aniEwalnurion ami the basis on which each VwilF should be admitted to the trust. | Alter a trial lasting nearly two months. *WB&'t fo* in favor of the plain•■tats hies been rendered by U jury in the Etaperioc Court nt San Francisco in the «Kie of the Pacific- Steam Whaling Com■■ugt against the Alaska Packers’ Assoswhun The suit was for SIOO,OOO damr Ateoir sixty Senators and KepresentaAfoes- have accepted invitations for a trip fojßßtvt the routes of the proposes! Niclagpta ahd Panama canals, coming home Byway of Santiago and other points of in- ■ Iteßest. in. the West Indies. .They will go as the guests of the Panama Canal f ’omThe Cuban assembly at Havana has wtttef to send a committee to present to hTtenfont »• Kinley resolutions which titamlt rhe- Tinted States for its interest ftn Chinn but declare that $3,000,000 is Mtoimffnir'rt to perform the work to which tfte-muuey promised Gomez is to be iqr : WE Worn, at Reton. Texas, drove wifi» from their home through the prin- ' agaE street of the town at daylight, shot In rim. anil then killed himself. He . BmE stolen a shotgun from the hardware store off Wilson A Austin and tired the , «un>* befitre leaving it. The store burned; •thelites is- $25,000. with $5,000 insurance. I Ite®.merchants of Houston, Texas, Auigmu. and Colby Cleveland, who ' Kbvh Bi ok held a grievance against each elite r. fought an arranged duel in a most frifcupuriiiini and sensational style. The ifoeagens used were shotguns loaded with ; Budtateit. Cleveland was shot and badly wounded in rhe body. Osborn was not . Inrt. Bl order to pnrtwt themselves against tfiu alleged aggression of the tobacco teusr. the tebaevo jobbers of New York Itivo On-rued the Independent Jobbers’ jMws-uHion of New York. The purpose fete-fight rhe recently formed Metropolitan Tobacco Chtnpany. which has been mode the sole New York agent of the American; Tobaevo Company. Thrasher hfood. rhe notorious negro Anin rwihher. safe blower ami bandit, was sail to ailed he rhe federal penitentiary*on ■ fin* mail schedule in the United States Cutrt at Meridian. Miss. Mead was indfatted ar it in the morning for Bihwiiii; up and robbing the post office at Khtferpriso, Miss. He was arraigned and Bsetfc at EG s’clovk. ami at 3 o’clock was •m his way to the penitentiary under a 3hyear sentence and a tine of $5,000. Sv Cl Elton of ♦'hi»>ago, representing an Xhgthdi syndicate, claims that he has obAtehe«E an option on !♦>»►,♦•**> acres of land Bn tite Cherokee nation in the northern Rare rhe Endian territory, in the re•wriy Aieuvered oil fields. Mr. Rutan .AHs** the present company, of which he is ;• am atfohnl. has men back of it whose ■Wealth, would, easily aggregate $250,000,•WW* Bt is independent of the Standard ®ffi Company, and expects to compete | with that company, mg only in the mar- ■. Iwtß- of America, but of Europe.