Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1899 — SUMMARY OF NEWS. [ARTICLE]

SUMMARY OF NEWS.

The discovery has been made that some very successful coiners have been operation inside the State penitentiary at Canyon City, Colo. The counterfeits made are diver dollars, and it is believed they are Of a combination principally of babbitt metal. Advices just received from Apia, Sattioau Islands, report that severe fighting has taken place between large bodies of friendly natives and the rebels. The casualties, it was thought, would not exceed twenty, and no Kuropeans or Americans were among the injured. According to dispatches from Vienna, liquid air, when mixed with silicious marl and igulled by electric sparks, exploded with twenty times the effect of dynamite, and when used in cannon no heat was developed. and the range, of the projectile was considerably, increased. Three men were killed by n fall of slate in the Pen Avgyle valley quarry, Pen Argyle, Pa. Two hundred tons of slate and dirt fell into the hole and Edward Harding and Joseph I). German were buried under it, with no hope of rescue. A third man, an Italian, was cut in two. The control of the "Monon,” officially known as the Chicago, Indianapolis and Louisville Railroad Company, has passed Into the hnnds of J. Pierpout Morgan & Co. The stockholders have elected a board of directors headed by Charles H. Coster, Temple Bowdoin and R. M. Galloway. The standing of the clubs in the National League race is as follows: W. L. W. L. Bt Louis.... 7 1 Baltimore ... 5 5 Boston 7 3Louisville ... 5 5 Philadelphia.. 7 4 New York... 3 (J Brooklyn .... (1 4Pittsburg ... 2 6 Chicago 7 5 Washington.. 2 8 Cincinnati .. 5 4Cleveland 1 6 Bank-Examiner Pope took charge of the assets of the State Bank of West St. Paul, Minn., and ordered further suspension of business. The depositors will be protected. The last statement shows the total resources to be $103,784.98, of which loans and discounts amount to $t!0,139.53; of the liabilities $33,004.20 is in time certificates. An attempt to kill George E. Sterr.v, Jr., secretary of the firm of Weaver & Bterry, New York, was made when an asp was sent him through the mail. The address written in faded ink on the box that held the snake was in a woman’s hand. When opened the snake fell on Bterry’s hands, but by his quickness the merchant escaped injury. Mr. Sterry has put the case in the hands of detectives. The final night of the Second Illinois regiment’s stay in Augusta, Ga., was celebrated with a riot at midnight, in which Private James G. Gilliland was shot, probably fatally, by Lieut. John Mayeski, and a lynching lice was only prevented by the strongest efforts of CoJ. Moulton. The soldiers had set fire to sheds near the camp, and the lieutenant, who was officer of the day, was trying to suppress the disturbance. Mrs' Jane Tottaton, a widow, and her four children, two boys and two girls, ranging in age from 0 to 12 years, were murdered in cold blood in their home seventeen miles south of Malden, Mo., and their bodies partly consumed in the fire that destroyed the residence. J. H. Tettaton, a stepson of Mrs. Tettaton, who had hitherto borne a good reputation, has been arrested on suspicion of haviug committed the crime. A terrific windstorm swept over St. Edward, Neb., doing a great deal of damage to property and injuring several persons. The wind was accompanied with hail. Leon Sisson had his barn, granary and kitchen torn down. At the farm of W. A. McCutebin the fury of the storm was the worst. Mrs. Sprague of Sioux City, the aged mother of Mrs. McCutchln, was in the cellar when the storm struck the place. She was struck in the back by flying debris and seriously hurt. Mrs. MeCutrhin was also seriously injured, as was old lady MeCutchin, Mr. McCutchin’s mother. The house was wrecked, trees torn up by the roots and u lot of stock killed.