Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1899 — SUMMARY OF NEWS. [ARTICLE]

SUMMARY OF NEWS.

Melville A. Sheldon, Louis Cohn, Isaac J. Cohn, Sigmund Klee and Moses J. Cohn, individually and as members of the firm of Cohn Brothers, Klee & Company, the New York Musical Record and the Manhattan Railway Advertising Company, filed a petition in bankruptcy in New York City. Several valuable toilet articles belonging to Queen Wilhelmina of Holland and a quantity of silver and gold dishes were stolen from the palace recently. Detectives recovered the greater part of the stolen property at the shop of a silversmith. who says he purchased them from the silvermaster at the palace. An engine attached to the New York and St. Louis day express on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad left the track near Petroleum, W. Va., and plunged Over a twenty-foot embankment. The engine, postal ear, two baggage cars and two coaches were derailed and badly damaged. Engineer William Meyers was instantly killed. The Navy Department has directed that the Eagle and Yankton be completed at the Portsmouth navy yard by Oct. 17, as they are needed for survey work Silbout Cuba and Porto Rico and will be thus employed all winter. The Navy Department has awarded the contract for building the Portsmouth dock to John Pierce of New York for $1,089,000. The standing of the clubs in the National League race is as follows: W. L. W. L. Brooklyn ...89 40 Chicago 68 64 Philadelphia 84 49 Louisville ...63 70 Boston 81 51 Pittsburg .... 63 71 Baltimore ..70 53 New York...54 76 St. Louis ....77 59 Washington. 49 83 Cincinnati ..73 61 Cleveland ...20 120 Elijah Hall shot and killed his father, Henry Hall, in Pike County, Kentucky, for abuse of his mother. The father was a preacher, but was very quarrelsome and abusive toward his wife. The son interfered in one of these scenes, and receiving some abuse from his father, in a moment of passion shot him dead and fled. Fred E. Harvey, until recently corresponding clerk of the Preston National Bank at Detroit, Mich., was locked up on a charge of embezzlement. He has confessed that he robbed the bank by a system of false entries. The amount of his peculations is said to be about $11,000. Harvey had been employed in the bank eleven years. He is married and 35 years of age. The Thirty-first regiment, United States infantry, known as the ‘‘President’s Own,” and composed of fighting men from Ohio, Tennessee and Clay County, Kentucky, is encamped on Angel Island, San Francisco bay, at the Federal quarantine station. The regiment was removed from the Presidio on account of the spread of smallpox among the men. From 0,000 to 8,000 persons, of whom 3,000 were veternns from Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, attended the dedication of the Indiana monuments and markers at Chickamauga Park, Chattanooga. By the ceremonies the State of Indiana turned over to the Federal Government 113 markers and monuments, costing in the neighborhood of SBO,OOO. Gov. Mount made the presentation speech. Immediately following the dedication of the Indiana monuments the Wilder brigade monument was dedicated.