Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1899 — SUMMARY OF NEWS. [ARTICLE]

SUMMARY OF NEWS.

F James P. Wright, Jr., second vice-pre»-Ment of the International Navigation EJbmpauy, said that the company had definitely abandoned all plans to save the ■teamship Paris from its position on the 'Manacles. The Harrison County (Texas) court house at Marshall, recently finished, was (burned with its contents, causing a loss «f $75,000. Adjoining property was also ‘burned, swelling the total loss to SIOO,OOO. Insurance only partial. W. D. Robertson has been convicted of fforgery at St. Paul. Minn. He attempted ,to organize a life insurance company and 'forged several names to the articles of incorporation, also pocketing all the preiSiiums he could collect. Princess Chimay gave birth to twins Monday in the beautiful villa that she ‘Rad rented in the suburbs of Alexandria, ■Where Rigo, her gypsy husband, was host. IHbw she is a widow, Rigo having died Of the plague on Tuesday. ‘ The steamship Lake Huron, from Bahram, Russia, with 2,300 Doukhoubour iftnmigrants on board, is detained at the Grosse Isle quarantine station above Quehec, Canada, with smallpox on board. There were five deaths on the passage. ■ The Navy Department has ordered the ’Buffalo to be put out of commission, thus indicating the abandonment of the proJact of maintaining a regular naval transport service across the Atlantic and by Way of the Mediterranean to Manila. A cablegram from Manila to the Navy Department states that Commander Seth Ackley, who only recently was sent out to take command of the United States steamship Concord, has fallen ill and has been •ent to the naval hospital at Yokohama. Justice Beach in the Supreme Court has appointed William J. Arkell as permanent ■eceiver for the Arkell Publishing Company, on application of a majority of the directors for voluntary dissolution of the corporation. Assets $53(1,330, liabilities $730,120. Elder George W. Higgins, the leader of tile Holiness Disciples, the sect which has Ottered up much excitement in Levant, Me., lately, was taken from the house of • friend Monday night by a mob of 200 masked men, ridden out of town on a rail, undressed, treated to a coat of tar and leathers, and then ordered to leave for Other parts. The steamship Laura da is in port at Seattle, Wash., from Wrangel, Alaska, with detailed news of the terrible suffering that bas been the lot of American miners who dried to reach the Klondike gold fields aver the all-Canadian route from Edmonton. They say that not less than 200 prospective miners have lost their lives by drowning, starvation, exposure and freezing during the last winter. Attorney General Frank S. Monett of Ohio served notice on Henry O. Have■wyer, president of the American Sugar Refining Company, that the company had been adjudged a trust under the laws of the State of Ohio, and that, according to ouch laws, the company was liable to the payment of a forfeit of SSO a day for each day that it continued to do business in Ohio after the service of the notice. The standing of the clubs in the National League race is as follows: W. L. W. L. Brooklyn ... .34 11 Cincinnati ...21 21 Boston .....21) 14New Y0rk...19 24 St. L0ui5....27 17Pittsburg ....17 25 • Chicago 26 19 Washington. 10 29 Baltimore ...25 19Louisville ...14 30 Philadelphia. 24 19 Cleveland ... 8 32 Following is the standing of the clubs in the Western League: W. L. W. L. St. Paul 21 15 Indianapolis. 18 19 Milwaukee . .20 16Columbus ...16 17 Minneapolis. 20 17Buffalo 15 19 Detroit .....17 18Kansas City..ls 21