Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 August 1899 — EVENTS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

EVENTS OF THE WEEK

| The NilW-Bement-l’ond company, in corporate,! at Trenton. N. J.. is spoken ‘ -Of in financial circles as a “tool trust, fajthough its organizers declare that they 4®re. not seeking to establish a monopoly. ®?he company has a capital stock of SB,E A statement completed by the Auditor tlpt State of Ohio shows that there arc 8jp0.874 saloons in the State, a gain of 698 istnce the July statement of last year. ‘The total revenue is $548,116.69. The Kfeeer and whisky license in Ohio costs fss2so a year. k The Seneca Point Hotel, on CanandaiHftta Lake. N. Y.. was destroyed by fire. ■|‘The structure was valued at S6§JM)O. Kjttle insurance was carried. Thcre4were Babout forty guests in the house at the ft time and all escaped, though many of ft them lost their effects. ■k The .London war office has completed fflts preparations for an emergency force ||iof -30,000 men to be ready to leave at any fc’ time for the Transvaal. Fast steamers I- for their transportation are waiting oristiers. It is said that the Grenadier now at Gibraltar, and the Twen-Ifety-first Lancers, now in Egypt, may also ( >be sent to South Africa. ? George W. Cady has been appointed Kfeceiver for Thomas 11. Groves, proprie- | tor of the Chicago Bankrupt Store, loftrated in Cleveland until very recently, B when the stock was removed to other An involuntary bankruptcy petiE tion was filed against Groves by three of his New York creditors, who claim | that Groves’ liabilities amount to $125,jooo. Ift Fire came very near destroying the town of Robarts, Ky. The losses are: b Eakin's drug store, $17,000; Eakin’s hardware store, $10,000; Dunean’s genI eral store, $7,000: empty store buildings I belonging to W. G. Duncan, $12,000; Dr. Cottigham’s office and residence, $5,000; K. of P. hall. $2,000, and several small jg cottages, SIO,OOO. No insurance was cargried. t At New Philadelphia. Ohio, Albert MyK ers shot and killed his wife at the famK Hy residence, and with the same revolver r ended his own life. The tragedy created [ a great sensation. What prompted the Redouble crime is not known, but it is supfcposed that jealousy was at the bottom of E the shooting. Mr. and Mrs. Myers had £ not been married long and were both under 30 years of age. : An engine under full head of steam fc blew up at the Cardenas roundhouse fc, near Tampico, Mexico. The killed are: s Engineer Felix Limer, New Orleans; EnI’gineer L. Fitzgerald, Monterey, Mexico; E Engineers J. Hussey and Will Gibson, ;»■ formerly of Chicago. Three Mexican K firemen and wood passers were also killi ed. An engineer of the name of Lockchart was blown ninety feet and fatally ; injured and two Mexican shop employes f ■were also fatally hurt. The standing of the clubs in the NaK tloual League race is as follows: W. L. W. L. | Brooklyn ...tit) 34 Chicago 53 4(1 f Boston 62 38 Pittsburg ...50 51 | Philadelphia 6.3 39 Louisville ...44 55 I Baltimore ...59 39 New Y0rk...41 55 | Cincinnati . .55 44 Washington. 35 66 I St. L0ui5....55 4(1 Cleveland ...17 87 Following is the standing of the clubs •in the Western League: W. L. W. L. Indianapolis 59 34St. Paul..,. .4(1 54 Minneapolis. (11 49Milwaukee ..43 52 k Grand Rap. .53 48 Buffalo 43 58 Detroit 50 48 Kansas City. 39 60