Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 September 1899 — SUMMARY OF NEWS. [ARTICLE]

SUMMARY OF NEWS.

The marine hospital service has receiver «d cable advices announcing that the ft lower part of the town of Orizaba, MexE >co, is now' infected with yellow fever, ft. There have been sixty-three deaths at K Cordova. I I A fire started nt Tiro, Ohio, and the K larger part of the town was destroyed. |T The tire departments from Tiffin, Ohio, and New Washington went in response p to calls. The fire started from an exillusion. al'. James Fisch, chief clerk at large of the railway mail service, is on his way to t Valdez, Alaska, to take up the matter of a opening an all-American rail route from ■ Valdez by way of Eagle to Circle City, I Alaska. E It is reported in San Francisco that a |j Chinese-American corporation with a | capital of $20,000,000 i.s being formed to K, establish large enterprises in China. The J? Chinese Government is said to be backI ing the undertaking. I “Abe” Coakley, who is said to have I been a partner of ‘•Jimmy" Hope of i Manhattan Bank robbery fame, was stabbed in New York. His assailant was William Joyce, a hotel porter. Coakley is dangerously wounded. I At Yuma. Ariz., E. F. Saginetti's merchandise store burned with the loss Of six lives. A crowd of men was carrying 1 goods from the building, when the second floor fi 11 upon them. Many wore injured. The loss is estimated at $150,000. | N. E. Crissy, 25 years old, an aeronaut Of Johnstown, I’a., fell 000 feet to instant , death on the Punxsutawney, I’a., fair grounds. The belt by which he wan held : broke before his parachute was spread, and he shot like a stone to the ground. Capt. Richard P. Leary, United States , navy, a native of Baltimore, has arrived at Guam, Ladrone Islands, and has established the sovereignty of the United States. He has issued his first proclamation us governor of the island to the natives. N. W. Harris & Co., bankers, of Chicago, have sol dtheir street car lines in Seattle, Wash., thirteen miles in length, and operated as the Seattle Traction Company, to a Boston syndicate of‘capitalists. The price is said to have been $1,250,000. While a herd of 600 cattle was being driven over a bridge which spans the big Carey river south of Elgin, Kun., the : structure suddenly collapsed. John Kehen and Tom Baker, cowboys, mid 140 head of cattle fell to the stream. Sixty feet below, and were killed. The conference between President Truesdale of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railway with Chief Arthur of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, at Scranton, resulted in an agreement that all engineers on the regular passenger runs shall lie paid a stated sum for each 100 miles run. The standing of the clubs In the National League race is as follows: W. L. W. L. Brooklyn .. .75.30 Chicago 58 57 Boston 71 42 Pittsburg ...50 58 Philadelphia 71 45 Louisville ...50 02 Baltimore ..00 44 New Y0rk...49 02 Cincinnati . .02 49 Washington. 39 73 St. L0ui5....04 53 Cleveland ...19 99 Following is the standing of the clubs in the Western League: W. L. W. L. Indianapolis 08 40 St. Paul 53 GO Minneapolis. 71 43 Milwaukee .'.48 GO Grand Rap..sß 55 Buffalo .....47 G 7 Detroit .....56 55 Kansas City.4s 60