Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 April 1899 — EVENTS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

EVENTS OF THE WEEK

E It ia offiHaliy anaouaced that the Brit|gish ambassador at Washington. Sir Julian . Pauncefote, and the British minister at ft The Hague, H. Howard, have been apgpointed British representatives at the r peace conference called by the Osar. I’ The Albatross, a new type of torpedo gfeboat destroyer, just built at Chiswick for I' the British navy, has attained a speed of gpthirty-three knots on her trial trip. The is 227 feet long and 21 feet in r the beam, with a draught of 2*4 feet. President Barrows announced to the and faculty of Oberlin, Ohio. Kjpllege that a donation of $50,060 has been | received for a new chemical laboratory J building and SIO,OOO for its endowment. || The name of the donor was not given. R ■ William Kinneman was tarred and in Deerfield township. Ohio, by Ktwelve masked men for undue intimacy Kwlth the wife of WiUiam Eidenour. who f is now serving a sentence in the work house. Kinuemau has left the country. ■New York City has been placed in the field for the meeting place of the national ponventions of both parties in 1900 by the organisation of the recently appointed committee of the Board of Trade and Transportation. Gen. McAlpin, chairman. I? The condition of war which has existed between the United States and Spain since April 21, 1898, terminated the other day when the last formalities in the rentoration of peace were performed by the exchange of ratifications of the peace treaty. k F. H. Brigham. Pacific coast inspector of Government surveys, says some of Altadena’s palatial homes, owned by rich men from Chicago and other Eastern points, are inside the California forest reserve recently established by President McKinley. Apologies having l>een made by the GovI ornor, Sir Augustus Hemming, the legislative council of Jamaica withdrew the vote of censure on the Government and voted $500,000 to meet immediate liabilities, pending a rearrangement of the finances •f the island. The battle between the revolutionists under Gen. Pando and the forces of President Alonso, near Oruro. in Bolivia, tasted over an hour, during which time 200 were killed. The victory of the Pando party was complete, and President Alonso fled to Chili. | The steamer City of St. Ixwis. Captain 1 Thorwegan, from New Orleans, is quarantiued at the southern limits of St. Louis because of a case of smallpox found os board. She has thirty first-class and E tfiirty-five second-class passengers, with - 100 deck hands on board. s Two Chicago men, one of whom jocuf larly gave the name of former Mayor Geo. ' B. Swift, the other calling himself Adolph | Van Trangue. were fined $lO each in a ; New York police court. The bogus Ml Swift kissed a pretty girl in the street and a policeman did the rest. Private advices announce the death from falling ISO feet down the Elkhart : shaft, near Chloride, Colo., of John D. Young of Louisville. Ky. He was a son of J. Roe Young. A month ago he received as a gift a mining claim that would < soon have made him a millionaire. B. H. Goodno, who received five votes for Mayor of Bronson, Kan., at a farce election, was declared by the county attorney to have been legally elected under the Australian ballot law and he and the fun set of city oCtcers chosen with him will take their seats at the usual time. George M. Porteous of Chicago has been awarded $750 damages against John Brisben Walker. Porteous sued for $50,000 damages for libel, based on the publication in the Cosmopolitan Magazine of an article entitled “Identifying Criminals,” with twelve reproductions of photographs Of the plaintiff in various attitudes. At Oshkosh, two large factories and several minor plants and buildings went up in smoke in about two hours. The loss aggregates $160,000, and several acres were swept clean. The fire started in the dry kiln of the Choate-Hollister Furniture Company, a' four-story frame structure, which was destroyed ia half an hour. The names then spread to surrounding plants. The Choate-Hollister Furniture Company lost on factory and stock $125,000. J. A. Barnes, owning the Star foundry machine ' works, lost $20,000 on buildings and machinery.