Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1899 — EVENTS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

EVENTS OF THE WEEK

Mrs. J. T. Van Smyth, wife of a Kansas City physician, has fallen heir to an estate in Rotterdam. Holland, valued at $1,000,000, left her by an aunt. Mrs. Van Smyth was Miss Lucille Livingstone of Richmond, Va. Rev. Lewis Lumpkins, who has been preaching at Seottsboro, Ala., for forty years, has been sentenced to the penitentiary for ten years on the charge of inhumanly torturing his little grandson by burning him so badly that the child died. Advices from Barramiuilla to Panama state that the steamer General Montoya, belonging to the Magdalena ltiver Transport Company, took tire and among those who perished was Gen. Julio Renjifo, formerly Colombian charge d’affaires in Washington. A fire that is supposed to have been the work of an incendiary swept the west side of Main street. Now Madrid, Mo,, destroying twenty-two houses, offices and dwellings. The loss is estimated at SIOO,000, partially insured. The suspected incendiary escaped. The financial projectors of the American Window Glass Company met in Pittsburg and allotted the stock for the new combination. All subscribers for stock for SIO,OOO or less receive the full amount, and all over that sum are to be •haded 10 per cent. A. P. Stephenson, a prominent and wealthy merchant of Pittsburg, tried to kill bis wife and child and then commuted suicide. Stephenson had been drinking heavily for several weeks and during fits of melancholy had frequently threatened to kill himaelf. — — Nathan B. Pryor, aged 125. died at Lancaster. Pa., from the shock caused by viewing the body of his stepdaughter. He had been ill, but came downstairs to see the child's body. While viewing it his strength left him and he hud to be assisted back to bed, where he expired. A shocking tragedy occurred about forty miles from The Dalles, Oregon, when Mrs, W. T. Gyton drowned herself and her two children—a boy of 4 years and a girl of lYj years—in the Des Chutes river. Family trouble is said to have caused the woman to commit the deed. A large five-story brick building in Filbert street, Philadelphia, the first two floors of which are occupied by the Matey Furniture Company, and the three upper floors by the Reliance Storage and Warehouse Company, was entirely destroyed by fire, together with its contents. The loss is estimated at about $100,001). Five men were injured, two seriously, by the explosion of a keg of powder in a fire that destroyed Cline Brothers' hardware store at Logansiwrt, Ind. The three-story brick building was half consumed when the lire reached the powder, and the explosion that followed finished the destruction, The loss is estimated at $50,000, with little insurance. The standing of the clubs in the National League race is as follows: vy. L. W. L. Brooklyn ...08 40 Chicago .....71 OS Philadelphia 88 52 Louisville .. .00 71 Boston H 4 58 Pittsburg ...00 72 Baltimore ..70 50 New Y0rk...55 80 St. L0ui5....79 02 Washington. 41* 80 Cincinnati ..70 08 Cleveland ...20 120