Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1899 — SUMMARY OF NEWS. [ARTICLE]

SUMMARY OF NEWS.

M'MMt {Sergeant John Jaiksxn was shot ■BBU killed at Fort Douglas by Private BtEH. Carter, and the latter was then ■K'4Uld instantly killed while resisting Both belonged to the Ninth States cavalry. |Kn* National Steel Company has rouKKted tor 3t«» new coke ovens in the coke regions and also has mMatravted to take the entire production jjjgEthe 750 oven.- of the Oliver <k Snyder for a long term of years. Jaieenah. who killed hi- wife Kt Ilolwikcn last May because she refits jHKito live with hint, committed suicide in Km| in the Jersey City jail. He himself w ith a n >pe made of torn from his underclothing. Corpse of a mau found floating in ■|.Missouri river just above Kansas has been identified its that of Janik's KPeters, an inmate of the soldiers’ at Grand Island. Neb. There are that the man was murdered. Hraltss Mary Ellen Sig-lxe. only daughKgr of Captain Charles D. Sigsbee. cumHpnd< r of the battleship Maine when the Mjnol was destroyed in Havana harbor, Hjras secretly married in New York in ■SuremlH'r last to Balfour Kerr, a young I BpTke rumor that William Waldorf Astor KjfIII noon be raised to the British peerage Mbmimes what is impossible. A law pass■MJduring the reign of William 111. deMjrives the crown of the power of conKirring the rank of peer upon natural Ked aliens. IKThe dead bodies of two men. one white Kd, the other colored, were found at CogYtiml:i, N. J., near the New York. SusKpehanna ami Western Railroad tracks. Erhe white man has been identified as a Kian named Francis. and it is thought Be w«a killed by a train. I rWith a revolver in one hand and a Übanch of vaccine quills in the other Dr. ■E, A. Doyle, borough physician of HomeKteed, Pa., forced his way into the Foun[pain inn and vaccinated forty persons livBng there. Andrew Abids was found in Ethe place suffering with smallpox. r Edward Eckinger. living six miles Krathenst of Canton. Ohio, and his dough [Ser. Ruby, aged 3 years, were killed by Kis wife, she then ending her own life, | using carbolic acid, slashing her arms i With a razor and sending a load of shot Onto her heart to accomplish the suicide. r A trainload of s«l> horses which P«w|[*ll Bros. were taking from North YaIgKima. Wash., to Son th Omaha were unHjoadcd and watered at Billings. Mont. IjThey had had no water since leaving HBpokane, thirty hours previous. Soon gAfter drinking and eating the horses beto go into spasms. Half of the Korses died. p Twenty-two freight cars furnished fuel t lfor a smoldering fire in tunnel No. 4 on kShe Cincinnati Southern Railroad, near ||Bomcraet. Ky.. and the company was grtobligcd to operate passenger trains by Kray of Jellico and tin* Louisville ami H|(nahri!le road. The fin' was due to the Kgplosiou of a tank car containing oil and Ejgf a car of naphtha while the freight was Banning through the tunnel. B The standing of the clubs in the Na[Mona) League race is as follows: W. L. 'V. L. Emrooklyn ...01 33St. L0ui5....53 44 GO 34 Pittsburg 48 48 Philadelphia. 58 38 Louisville —4l 51 [PBaltiniore ...55 39 New Y0rk...37 54 EjOhicago 52 42 Washington. 35 62 [ Following is the standing of the clubs t in the Western League: W. L. IV. L. Detroit ~...48 44Buffalo 39 53 , -Grand Rap. .47 44Kansas City..3B 57