Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1899 — EVENTS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

EVENTS OF THE WEEK

The promised restoration of wages at tte Pacific worsted and cotton mills in latwrewe. Mass., has gone into effect, about 5.060 employes being affected. It m nnderstood that the increase is about Stb per cent. * • Benry E. Cooper has received his commission as Attorney General of Hawaii and has been sworn in. President Dole will now appoint a minister of foreign affairs to sneered Mr. Cooper, who formerly held that office. Dawson's water front has again liern swept by lire. The Haines started in n. rest an ran i and burned fiercely until aavenv or eight buildings had been destroyed. Several persons were badly burned. The h»ss wa> 4.200 on buildings alone. The steamer Rowena Lee, plying between Cairo and Memphis, sank in sev-enty-five feet of water opposite Tyler, Mat, and ail on board excepting Captain Carvel! anil a pilot were drowned. At least eighty persons were on the boat, Wiltiam K. Vanderbilt has duplicated his wedding present to his daughter Consueio. Duchess of Marlborough, for his ■oil. William K. Vanderbilt, Jr. Securities amounting in value to if 10,000,000 have been turned over to the young man »y his father; Mataafa and his chiefs in Samoa continuing to defy the treaty, the Knglish and American admirals were forced to hack their authority by bombarding native coast villages, several of which have been destroyed. The Germans are said to be supporting Mataafa. - The maple sugar harvest in Vermont is believed to be a total failure this year, mid if the worst fears of the sugar makers are realized the industry will be crippled for many years to come. The sugar on-hards were stripped of leaves last .summer by an army of caterpillars, and this spring the trees are foiind to be sapless. En the person of a boy only 15 years old the police of Williamsburg. N. Y., discovered the firebug who has terrorized the district covered by the police of the Ralph avemte station for more than tWif> months. A most remarkable degenerate is this boy. who confesses to having started thirtwn fires “to see the engines run.” The boy’s name is Irving Taylor. Capt .William A. Andrews, who crossed! the Atlantic to Paris in IH7B in a small hour, the Nautilus, will on June 17 of this year start on another voyage across the Aduntie in a tiny craft. The Itoat will b* constructed of alnmimmi and canvas, anti will be small and light enough when collapsed to carry under the arm. The nwyagp. Capt. Andrews calculates, will take him sixty days. At Eats Angeles, Cal., the Mount Lowe Kulw ay was sold under foreclosure proceedings by the court commissioner for MMMM9M to Arthur L. Hawes, who acted as agent for Valentine Peyton of DanEli. A majority of the stoek was owned by the Singer heirs and A. B. Cody of Chicago* while Andrew McNally was also one of the committee that has been financing the enterprise. The Warren lane steamer Norseman, Captain Bees, bound from Liverpool to Riston, went ashore just inside Tom Moore's Rock, about one hundred yards off rhe Nanepashemet Hotel, Marblehead Neck. Mass. Captain Charles of the lifesaving crew saved twenty-one men in the breeches buoy before daylight, and the remainder of the crew were taken off as rapidly as possible. The Norseman earned* crew of I*Kl men and no passengers. The Kansas City Star prints a threeet/lnnin story of the arrest of a remarkable gang of Kansas criminals, who have fcr years lived by means of robbery and sunnier. One of them is believed to be the murderer of Joseph New, who was Ikiiled in Greenwood County, Kansas, two years- ago. and for which crime his wife and George T. Dobbs are now serving life sentenre -!. So firmly dot's Warden Landis of the Kansas penitentiary believe in Che innocence of Mrs. New and Dobbs Cfiot he will immediately nrge the Governor Co pardon them. Frank Alltgood, alleged to be the real murderer, is in jail te Bdu. Kan., under a charge of forgery. AlVia Billiard, serving an eight-year sentence In the Kansas penitentiary for Burse stealing, has confessed that be, Alltgn«d and “Bill” Turner were the mtirder- *» of New. and that Mrs. New and Dobbs are absolutely innocent.