Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 June 1899 — Page 2

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BREVITIES.

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EASTERN.

Brooklyn nary yard from apoplexy, ■■rt CO year*. Jalia Krrtya Capen Woodford of Brooklyn. wife of the former minister to Spain, fri aged 50 yean. Ike Keystone paper min, Philadelphia, waa destroyed by fin. Lom fSO.OOO, partly mend by insurance. Ike foorotory building of the Phoenix Paint aad Break Company in Philadelphia was destroyed by fire. Loss $60,000. Gen. E. F. Wiles, colonel of the Seven-ty-eighth regiment, Ohio volunteers, during the civil war, died at Windsor, N. Y„ aged 13 yean.

At Trenton, Jt. J, the Standard Oil Cnmpaay filed a certificate the Secretary of State increasing its capital stock from fUXtMMMO to $110,000,000.

Jadge S. L. Mestrezat of Fayette County was Dominated for Supreme Court Jadge by the Pennsylvania Democratic naralioi on the twenty-eighth ballot

Charles E. Littlefield, Republican, has been elected to Congress to succeed the htit'Xrf'ioa Dingley of Maine, defeating John Scott of Bath by an overwhelming

W. C. Johnson, acting commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, has called a meeting of the pension committee of that body in Washington, D. C„ on Tuesday, July 11.

The death is announced of Simon Fry, grand commander of the Aneient Accepted Scottish Rite for the United States. He sacrum bed to an operation for appendwitis at a New York hospital. He was 46 years oU.

It was officially announced that the option held by Drexel, Morgan & Co. on sSvIOOO shares of Lehigh Valley Railroad Stock had been exercised. The price paid ts** $25 a share for 117.300 and $27.50 for the remainder.

Liquid steam, a discovery made in the development of the new motive power, compressed air, has had a public semi-offi-cial test oa the Putnam division of the New York Central Railroad, and is declared to be a success.

George Beauregard Barrow, the principal in the kidnaping of Marion Clark, the infant daughter of Arthur Clark of New York, has been sentenced to fourteen yean and ten months’ imprisonment. Cattie Jones; who pleaded guilty, was sentenced to four years’ imprisonment.

A sane of masked robbers, probtbly ten ia aamber. early the other moraine raided the receiving office of the Fairmoant Park Transportation Company at Belmont in Fair—nt Park, Philadelphia, and, after holding ap the receiver and fire other employes of the railway, blew open the safe, ■Bearing 94,000, the company’s receipts tar twe days.

WESTERN.

The Michigan Legislature has passed the Sayres anti trust bill.

Richard P. Bland died at Lebanon, Mo., after a sleep of thirty-two hoars.

Lieut. W. C. Eagon of Sioux City, loma, and Miss Janet McKinley mere married at Mexico, Mo. Street car strikers in Cleveland created aeveral riots and a number of non-union am mete badly bare The large planing mill of Fish Jc Hunter, ia Lead, S. D„ mas destroyed by fire. Laos S3BOOO. insurance SB,OOO. Prof. Benjamin Ide Wheeler of Cornell University has been elected as president of the University of California. The American Seed Trade Association in session at Cincinnati elected Alexander Rodgers of Chicago as president. Ur. Daniel Albright Long has tendered his resignation as president of Antioch College at Yellow Springs, Ohio. At Gathrie, O. T., Henry Lee and family of throe are dead. They ate toadstools, mistaking them for mushrooms. The Imperial Council, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, has elected John H. At-m-jod of Leavenworth imperial potentate. The corner stone of the Minnesota Odd Fellows* Hume and orphan asylum was laid at NorthfieUl with appropriate cereElevra firemen were injured in a fire that destroyed the wholesale grocery of Allen Bros, at Omaha. The property loss was SIOO,OOO Fasw>n Lee, a 10-year-old boy who ran away from his home in Chicago, waa arrested ia Washington on complaint of his father. Walter J. Lee. At the meeting of the Ohio Republican State central committee Col. Charles Dick mi Akron was selected to manage the Repahficaa campaign in Ohio, Aa east-booad Northern Pacific freight train rsHided with an excursion train one male cant of Liatoa station. Ore. One man am the Astoria train was killed and five The Miners* Bank at Cfeede, Colo., and hanks at Hooper and Monte Vista, of ahith President D. J. Maben of the Greede hank is also the head, have been The hnfldiag containing the kitchen, rommimsry department, bakery and dining hall of the State Reform School at WhittieT. CaL. horned. Loss $20,000, no A young man named Abraham Herrhberg leaped to his death from a tenthatary window ia Dayton, Ohio. He was re—ne and aa inmate of the State hospital at Cahmahns. By aa explosion at the United States ffmnkrlets Powder Company's factory at Saa Rafael, CaL, Edward Secumbe, John Secamhe. James Morrissey and M. HoiAt Laportr.'TmL, a mob or 600 boys and yonag men raided a gospel tent in which the Hatyitrs were holding services. The rioters cat the ropes sad let the tent down aa the congregation. Ex-Senator Benjamin E. Harding is dead at Cottage Grove, Ore. He was elected to the United States Senate in 18R to fiß oat the aaexpired term of Senator Baker, deceased. The entire front of the brick house of Abraham Koha, at Cleveland, was blown ant ky aa etplomoa of gasoline, and Kobn, Ida wife and child are ia the hospital. Tim baby will sorely die. f while attempting to it— it. John Henry Coffins, who is in the Kan

the Murder trf bis father, has written «, book on prison life which has been printed in the penitentiary office. The southbound passenger train on the Kanins City, Pittsburg and Quit Railroad ohMheM up hy three maskdt men at a curve a mile south of Shady, I. T*> The robbers got only $5 and a registered letter. v Ed J. Stubblefield, charged with the attempted robbery of a Missouri Pacific express train, was found guilty at Bed all a, Mo., and bin punishment fixed at .1 ten years’ imprisonment in the State penitentiary. . - ■ At a Bohemian picnic outside the Cleveland city limits a fight was started, during which Frank Hajdut was shot through the bead and instantly killed. The police are unable to learn the name of the slayer, who escaped in the crowd. The Nebraska State board of public lands and buildings has closed the'arrangements for the purchase of a residence for the Governor. The price paid for the which includes the house and furniture as it stands, is $20,000.

One hundred and fifty ore handlers oa the Hocking Valley docks at Toledo, who struck on account of the company refusing an increase of wages, have returned to work. The situation for a short time looked serious, as several large vessels were in port waiting to unload.

A military prisoner named Wringer, who was serving a two years’ sentence in the Federal prison at Leavenworth, Kan., for desertion from the Sixteenth Infantry, made a break for liberty and waa shot and killed by Private Olson, Troop F, Sixth cavalry, who was oh guard duty.

A unique condition of affairs exists at Xenia, Ohio. Owing to the refusal of the City Council to provide money for meeting the expenses of the workhouse, the board of directors of the workhouse passed a resolution ordering that all prisoners confined there be released from custody.

Gov. Scofield of Wisconsin has sent out telegrams to the Mayors of thirty or forty cities asking them to renew their efforts to raise money for the storm-stricken people of New Richmond and vicinity. The Governor estimates it will take $500,000 to meet the requirements of the situation.

John A. Magee of San Francisco has filed a petition in insolvency in the United States District Court. His failure is ascribed to ill advised investments in the Klondike freighting trade and the steamer Humboldt last year. His losses are estimated at $122,500. Assets estimated at $3,000.

SOUTHERN.

The Benbow House at Greensboro, N. C., was burned. Loss SIOO,OOO, with no insurance.

John P. Shannon of Elberton, Ga., has been elected supreme dictator of tbe Knights of Hofior.

At Parkersburg, W. Va., Madge Gordon, 13 years ol«b was indicted for peddling “moonshine" whisky.

At Rock House, Ky., while acting as peacemaker between John Moore and Chris Craft, William Maggard waa shot dead by Craft.

William H. Fischer, a New Orleans builder and contractor, shot his wife after brutally beating her and then fatally wounded himself.

While a party were bathing at the foot of Broadway, Galveston, Texas, Etta Thorn, aged 14, Marian Howard, 18, and Irene Lauderdale, 16, were drowned.

William Bingham went to John Riddle’s house, near Pineville, Ky., and calling him out, shot part of his head off with a shotgun. He then fled to the mountains.

James Howard, who was suspected of killing Tom Baker in the coujrt house yard at Manchester, Ky., is reported to have been shot by some member of the Baker family.

Gen. Nelson A. Miles has accepted the invitation to be present at Fort Thomas, Ky., on July 1, at the unveiling of the Sixth infantry memorial tablet and accept it in behalf of the United States regular army.

Frederick Brown, aged 17, and Edith Vaughn, aged 16, children of families prominent in the social world of Columbia, Mo., surprised their friends by eloping to Mexico, that State, where they were married.

At Winchester, Ky., Samuel ltupard and wife were iustantly killed by a Chesapeake and Ohio train while en route for the remains of their nephew, H. P. Rogers, killed in a railroad accident at Ronecverte, W. Va.

For thirty-six hours the town of Brackett, Texas, was under water as the result ot a serious cloudburst. No fewer than twenty-five houses are washed away and hundreds are homeless and penniless. Only a few lives were lost. The damage at Brackett ia estimated at $200,000.

FOREIGN.

Exports of gold from South Africa now average about $2,000,000 each week.

The Spanish Senate has adopted the bill ceding the Caroltne Islands, the Ladrones and the Pelew Islands to Germany.

Albanian bands, assisted by 2,000 Turkish regular troops, are reported to have attacked a number of Serviau villages in the Javionitza district.

Rioters killed Rev. H. S. Phillips, Mrs. Phillips, a woman friend and three native converts while they were trying to make their escape from Klen Yang, China.

The United States transport Sherman, from San Francisco with 1,800 men and seventy-five officers under command of Brig. Gen. Fred D. Grant, has arrived at Manila.

The Italian Government has demanded satisfaction from France for the arbitrary arrest at Nice of the Italian Gen. Giletta, taken into custody there on a charge of espionage. /

To prevent smuggling on the Cuban coast Col. Bliss, tbe collector of customs, is to have placed at his disposal, as soon aa possible, several small vessels for use as revenue cutters. Admiral Watson, the new commanding officer of the Asiatic fleet, has arrived at Manila and relieved Captain Barker, who has been the ranking officer since the departure of Admiral Dewey. The Correctional police court at Paris sentenced Comte de Dion, -Comte d’Aubigny and Comte d’Assy to a fortnight in prison and to pay 100 francs fine for participating in the disturjp—es at AutefiE at Stanley, Falklaot Islands, and would probably be a total wreck. Tbe Berlin correspondent of the London ' . j. * •>., ‘ 1 • %

Daily Vail says that a workman Uenswny, xWt jkMmmvger steamer Bloecher arms ran into nod sank by the steamer Poeiita. Thirty persons are reported to have been drowned. Ten were saved, j , Advices received at Londaa from fiat Africa show famine in more prevalent ia drought, which also prevails alarmingly in the British protectorates. Hundreds at women and children are dying of starvation. Bedouin Arabs recently attacked a convoy of Egyptians with the holy carpet of Mahomet between Mecca and Medina. A fierce conflict ensued. Fear soldiers and three civilians of the convoy wear killed and the rest fled. The Hedonists hold the carpet for ransom.

IN GENERAL.

Phyllis Rankin, the actress, has began suit for an absolute divorce from her has band. Actor Henry D. Gibbs. Johnson’s Island. Lake Brie, which wan famous as a prison for rebel soldiers during the civil war; has been sold at auction for $45,000. The steamer City of Beattie arrived from Alaska with 274 passengers, 200 of whom were from Dawson. They brought out between $500,000 and SBOO/100 in dost and nuggets. The Ohio Society of Californio has sent to President McKinley an invitation efagraved on a plate of gold, asking Mm to become the guest of that organisation ia San Francisco.

At the annual meeting of the Bwedish Lutheran Mission Society in Des Moines it was decided to continue the pobßcation of the official organ at North Park, Chicago. and to meet next year ia Jamestown, N. Y.

A special dispatch from Glace Bay, C. 8., one mile from the Caledonia mine of the Dominion Coal Company, says an explosion, accompanied by terrible loss mt life, occurred there. More than forty men were in the pit when the explosion occurred and nearly all of them perished.

Leading chambers of commerce aad other great trade Organizations through— t the world are rapidly coining into'hoe far the international commercial congress, to be held at Philadelphia next fatt. Out mt 800 invitations seat oat a few weeks ago to those bodies, asking them each to a—d two or three delegates, only thirty-eight declinations have been received. Formal acceptances have come from twelve governments.

The supreme lodge of the Ancient Order of United Workmen elected the fallowing supreme officers: Master workman. John C. Bickford of Manchester, X. H.J foreman, W. A. Walker of Milwaukee. Wis.; overseer, A. C. Harwich of New York; recorder, M. W. Sackett of MeadvOfe, Pa.; receiver, John J. Acker of Albany. N. Y.; guide, Alexander Pratt of JKiaaipeg, Man.; watchman, A. B. Jones mt Wilmington, DeL; medical examiner. Dr. D. H. Shields of Hannibal, Mo.

Three men who left Dahl river, Alaska, on Dec. 5 for Jim town were not heard as again and they were supposed to hare been lost The men were Michael Daly, Victor Ediar aad M. Provost. They were from Providence, IL L. Woonsocket, RL, and Brockton, Mass., respectively. Their bodies were discovered seventeen miles from the mouth of Old Man's creek, they having lost the trail aad become bewildered. Daly’s body was found partly eaten, in a tent on the stove, just a# it was left when death overtook the others. The other two men were found dead fire miles away from the tent. The fact mt the tent flaps being shut down when found would seen) to preclude the possibility of Daly’s body having been eat— by animals.

Bradstreet’s commercial report says: “Weather and crop conditions figure to a greater extent than usual this week, not only in the domain of actual distribution, but in their effect op values of staples, particularly agricultural products, a majority of which are higher. Noteworthy in this respect is wheat, which has advanced on Government and other reports, pointing, according to some, to 550,00(MM)fi bushels, and by others estimated aa low 500,000,000 bushels. Cotton remains unchanged. Advices as to distributive trade are in the main very favorable. The trend steel trade displays unexampled activity as regards summer production and consumption. Wheat, including Hoag, shipments for the week aggregate 2,798,471 bushels, against 3,158.047 bushels last week. Cora exports for the week aggregate 3.285,301 bushels, against 3r 339,839 bushels last week.”

MARKET REPORTS.

Chicago—Cattle, comm— to primr. $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, shipping grades. $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, (gir to choice. $3.00 to $5.25; wheat. No. 2 red, 70c to 77c; corn. No. 2,34 cto 36c; oats. No. 2,24 c to 26c; eye, No. 2, Glc to G3c; butter, choice creamery, 17c to 19c; eggs, fresh. 12c Jo 14c; potatoes, choice new, 00c to 70c per busheL

Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping. $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, choice light, $2.75 to S4jOO; sheep, common to choice. $250 to $425; wheat. No. 2 red, 74c to 73c; corn. No. 2 white, 34c to 35c; oats. No. 2 white. 29e 40 30c.

St. Louis —Cattle, $3.50 to $5.73; hogs. $3.00 to $4.00; sheep. $3.00 to $3.00; wheat, No. 2, nc to 79c, corn. No. 2 yellow, 34c to 36c; oats. No. 2,25 cto 27c; rye. No. 2,57 cto 58c.

Ciuciuna t i—Cattle. $2.50 to $5.75; hoes. $3.00 to $4.00; sheep. to s4i»: wheat. No. 2. 74c to 7Ge; cm, X«. 2 mixed, 30c to 37c; oats. So. 2 mixed, 27c to 20c; rye, No. 2,04 cto GGe. Detroit —Cattle, $2.50 to $5.73; hoes. $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, S2J» to $4.73; wheat. No. 2,78 cto 80c; con. No. 2 yellow, 35c to Stic; oats. No. 2 white, 28c to 30c; rye, 50c to Ole. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed. 78c t% 79c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 34c to 3Gc: oats. No. 2 mixed, 25c to 20c; rye. No. 2. GBc to 02c; clover seed, new. $3210 to S4jOOL Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 spring, 77c to 79c; core, No. 3,34 cto 3Gc; oats. No. 2 white, 28c to 30c; rye. No. 1. 00c to Cc; barley. No, 2,40 cto 42c; pock, mess, $8J)0 to S&SO. ltuffalo—Cattle, rood shipping. steers, $3.00 to $5.75; hoes, common to choice. £L2S to $440; sharp, fsirjo choicemethd cm »50 to emoam m extra, $4 50 to $0.25. i New York- t’ittlc. $3.2* to 'sS,7s|h«saS SbStNs. 2 red, 84c to Sic; con, No. 2 42c to 43c; oats. No. 3 white, 31c to 32c; butter, creamery, 15c to 20c: e«p* Wt* cru. Hc to lOc. *4s , * \c

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