Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 September 1899 — KENTS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

KENTS OF THE WEEK

Hnerlean apples are in such great detr fin Germany this year that shipSta have commenced one month earlier Last year 22,851 barrels ■Kaent abroad. This year it is expect■fcß shipments will reach 100,000 barWWnfo Rockefeller has given $250,000 B&bwti University, Providence, R. I. Eg is.tliv first substantial lift toward Wf2, 000,000 endowment fund which of Brown University has trying to raise for the last five Wirederiek Max Brookhouse was hanged Wihe ’ State’s prison at Westerfield, Wth., for complicity in the murder of Offliel N. S. Lambert in Wilton Dec. 17, ■yiD7. His partner in crime, Benjamin F. 'lllis, was hanged on the same gallows open switch caused a wreck on the tie Railroad at Miller’s station, Pa., in fcfiteh four men were killed and two in|®ed. Train No. 5, the New York-Chi-rMJO express, ran into the rear end of a Jjleight train while going at the rate of atty miles an hour. f jjThe little city of Bowling Green, Ohio, M a narrow escape from a tornado. Just Orth of the city limits a strip about two ’ : .pies long and half a mile wide was lit- ; billy swept clean. One person was peraps fatally injured, while several others sere more or less hurt. ♦ A deed covering the transfer of the carbon factory in Fre*ont, Ohio, to the National Carbon Com♦ny of New Jersey has been filed. The qnsideration mentioned in the deed is sl, Iflrt the revenue stamps attached show be value to be SIOO,OOO. At Wintonville, Ky.. Logan Randolph Ifett shot and killed. It seems he had .iome trouble with the keeper of a “blind tiger” In the morning and just after dark Returned to the "tiger." Friends near heard five pistol shots and on investigation found Randolph’s body near the place. J John L. Larson. John Lundstrom, Albert Larson and Henry Eggan, of Garfield, and O. C. Westman, from Belle River, thrashers, while returning from Brandon, Minn., were struck by lightning. Lundstrom and Westman were killed. Two others were injured, but Will recover. i Probably fifty persons were injured in a rear-end collision on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad at Connellsville station, Pa. The presence of mind of Engineer John Haggerty saved the lives of many. The first section of train No. 5, an emigrant special of eight sleepers, ran into the rear end of the Cumberland accommodation. Engineer Murray of the emigrant train lost control of bis engine, the air brake refusing to work. The standing of the clubs In the National League race is as follows: W. L. W. L. Brooklyn ...82 36Pittsburg ...61 59 ‘Philadelphia 76 46 Chicago 61 61 Boston 73 46 Louisville ...53 65 Baltimore ..68 48New Y0rk...49 69 Cincinnati ..68 52 Washington. 41 77 St. L0ui5....69 54 Cleveland ...19107 Following Is the standing of the clubs tn the Western League: W. L. W. L. Indianapolis 72 44 St. Paul 57 (14 Minneapolis. 74 47 Milwaukee . .54 (14 Detroit .....60 60 Kansas City.sl 69 Grand Rap..oo 61 Buffalo 50 69 ‘ Hopkins J. Hanford, general manager Of the Kinloch Telephone Company, went to St. Louis from Minneapolis, Minn., recently to arrange maps and profiles for a gigantic new long-distance telephone enterprise which will cover all important points in the Mississippi valley. The proposed company will be incorporated Oct. 1, with a capital stock of $1,000,900, paid Up. It "’ill be known as the Kinloch iLong-Distance Telephone Company, and •will extend many miles to the norfh, east, south and west of St. Louis. The company is the outgrowth of the Kinloch Telephone Company of St. Louis, which organisation has recently made a large extension in its local service, involving an additional expenditure of $212,000 on its switchboard facilities.