Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1899 — WEEK'S NEWS RECORD [ARTICLE]

WEEK'S NEWS RECORD

gRRer. Edward Moagan. late assistant Fgeetor of the Church of the Good Samarik tan in San Francisco. is reported to have L been made a millionaire by the death of an I'Mnt in New York. E The residence of Dr. L. <’. Bagwell, FNfiat of Dalton. Ga.. was burned. Dr. ■jßagwell. his three children and their neKjto n<Misekee|>er were burned to death. It E'ia aupfiosed a lamp exploded. K ; . Four mummies, remains of the ancient EjPharaohs. have been found in the pyraF raids of Egypt. One of them has been as the laxly of Thotlimes 1., who ■flourished about 1(33 B. C. The Supreme (’ourt of lowa has decided pfbat a note or account for moneys involved | in Board of Trade deals cannot lx* cols Ircted at law in the State. Such obligaRgjons are classed as gambling debts. E George I'bler. a farmer. 50 years of age. Ffesiding near Mount Hoj»*. I’a.. killed his F'.Wife with an ax while she was milking a I «». He then hanged himself. The double fciragedy is aserilied to religious insanity. The Texas Senate has passed finally its gduti-trust bill. When originally introduce |«d the bill was identical with the ArkanBaas law. It has lx*en materially amended, r however, and is decidedly more drastic in K.fta provisions. Secretary Meiklejohn has isEBied an order creating the military district Mff North Alaska, which is to include all Bfhat portion of the territory north of the ■Sixty-first parallel. Captain P. H. Ray 'ln to command it. • Jaeob H. Fleisch and Nathan Fleisch, fevmprising the firm of Fleisch & Co., manEAfaeturers and dealers in men's under- [ wear in New York, have filed a voluntary f petition in bankruptcy. Liabilities $235, f 412. assets $95,260. F- T, ’“ native Filipinos under contract to kmbibit iu a dime museum in New York k Were forbidden to land in San Francisco. EComiuis.siouer North holds they are conI tract laborers. His views are supported t by the Washington authorities. | A break in the Erie canal was discovg**ed at Spencerport. N. Y.. and water | from the canal rushed in torrents through F • breach in the banks thirty feet wide, out I.Upon the village. Great damage was done. .-A number of farms north of the village F Wen* completely submerged. P The steamer La Gascogne, ('apt. Simon. K-ffenm New Y’ork for Havre, where she has [arrived. reports that one of her Ixiiler tubes exploded during the voyage. A fire|ibu was badly burned and an engineer. I Who went to his assistance, was so severe--1 ly injured that he died a few hours later. k A cyclone visited Mulvane. Kan., and k-New down twelve frame business houses I nnd the Methixlist Church. A small cyEeioue passed over Wichita, and five miles |***t of there it dropped to the earth and up five farm houses. • Mr. Jacoba, rWhile out feeding stock, was hit on the [ bead by flying debris and fatally hurt. i A cycloue struck Coldwater. Kan., at 10 I •‘clock the other night, completely deEfitroying twelve houses and killing Joseph HBowers. a prominent cattleman. Ald|lieh's general store was wrecked and a ■■rick block on Main street was blown I d-»wn. The Presbyterian Church was [JNowti away and the court house was imiwofed. K Archie McCarter, a civil engineer and gjbnnl rat-tor in Fort Scott. Kan., until IpHbl. when be left for Yucatan, has just I been released from a political prison in f the republic of Colombia, where he was I confined for about six years, and has rettarned there. He has gone directly t» I Washington and interested the G overtI raent in his demand upon the Colombian BBovernment for $150.1 MlO indemnity. j The standing of the clubs in the Na Etional League race is as follows: | W. L. W I. I St. L0ui5....14 5 Baltimore . 11 10 MMriladelph:-. 14 7 Louisville ... X V 4 Efetaoidjm ... .13 XPittsburg ... T 12 MSncinuuti . .11 7 Washington.. 4 17 PRoston 11 lOClevelaud ... t 18 "Following is the standing of the clubs I la the Western League: | W. 1.. W. L I St- Paul 7 5 Buffalo 6 3 Mhrtrwit ..... 7 ti Kansas City.. 6 7 | fcadtanapolis.. 7 6 Columbus ... 5 T Mfenneapolis. . 7 (1 Milwaukee.... 5 I