Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1899 — SUMMARY OF NEWS. [ARTICLE]

SUMMARY OF NEWS.

A dispatch from Sofa. Bulgaria. rays , that a member of the Macedonian committee made an nnsrarewfal attempt to i? Stab Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria while the latter was granting him an audience at the palace. Frank Campbell, living at West Alex- < and ria. Ohio, shot and killed his wife and hi* sister-in-law. Mrs. Lucy Gray, the last-named being a resident of Lewisburg. He then seat a bullet through his own : brain, dying almost instantly. Arthur S. Colyar. Jr, the lawyer from Mashrille, pleaded guilty in general sesrion* at New Fork to an attempt to kidnap Nicholas A. Heekman. a witness in the Moltoeex case, and was sentenced to the penitentiary for sixty days. H. B. Fitzgerald. a lumberman of Hammond. La— was shot and instantly killed by his brotber-in-law. Ed Strahlem. Fit* gerald was in bi* cup<s and threatening to | murder his wife, a sister of Strahlem. when the latter puked up his gun and shot him. Miss Viola Horloeker. the Hastings. Neb, stenographer who is resting under a 95,000 bond on the charge of having attempted to kill Mrs. C. F. Morey by send I ing her a box of poisoned candy, waived r examination and was bound over for trial f to Sept. 25. | At Hollealvrg. Kan_ Sheriff Ed Ccde- | man of Washington County was shot and | instantly killed by William Hoxie, whom Rhe was attempting to arrest. In the en- " counter Hoxie was fatally shot through I the bowels. Hoxie was wanted on a ■ charge of robbery. fcl The Governor of Missouri has signed ■ the department stone bill. It applies only | to stores in St. Louis. Kansas City and St. Joseph which employ fifteen persons ar more, and taxes heavily all classes of goods handled except one of the seventy- . three classes. It will be resisted. The battleship Kearsarge is SO per •■ent completed and the battleship Kentucky 88 per cent. It is understood these vessels will be turned over to the Government about Jan. 1. The lu ik-kp Alabama is 82 per cent, the Illinois 65 per cent and the Wisconsin 67 per cent completed. The ambitious plan for a canal from the Rhine to the Elbe, which would have required >6s.«*».<«W for its construction, has been killed by the Prussian landtag’* 'rawniiii - Sectional jealousies rather than any motives of economy are mainly responsible for the defeat of the measure. Kansas. Texas and Oklahoma cattle dealers have placed a boycott against Kansas City. All of the shippers have joined in the boycott and they estimate that Kansas City will lose 40.000 head per month and believe that the greater majority of that number will be shipped on direct to Chicago. At a meeting of the board of directors of Wittenberg College at Springfield. Ohio, one of the oldest Lutheran educational in utituttaus in the country- it was decided to admit women to the theological seminary and upon comfdrtiom of the course to confer the degree of B. D. upon them the same as upon the men. The Hay tian Government accepts the deli—ilatiou of the frontier* by President Henn-aux of lioininica and the presidents of both repuldics will meet in conference at Mole St. Nicholas. President Heunaux's visits through the country have calmed the people by his personal guarantee of the redemption of paper in July, and his popularity continues. fe Robbers enlcrod the general store of £ John Kohler at Steiner station. Ohio, and f blew opea the safe with nitroglycerin. I There was a large sum of money in the E vault, but the burglar* did not succeed in I opening the inner compartment. They were so incensed at their failure to secure booty that they set fire to the building and it was almost wholly destroyed. The standiug of the dubs in the Na •tonal League race in as follows; W. L. W. L. St. Louis.—l» TBaltimore —l3 13 Brooklyn 19 BLouisville ...IV 15 i . Chicago 18 »New York... 9 15 VfWadelphia. 17 10 Washington.. 5 21 Boston 15 11 Cleveland ... 3 20 F Following is the standing of the clubs In the Western League: W. L. W. L r Indianapolis. 11 BMilwaukee ...10 9 Buffalo 9 7 Detroit 9 IO | i'Mtancapoli*. IO BKansas City.. 8 12 t 81. Patil 9 SCcdumbns ... 6 IO