Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1899 — SUMMARY OF NEWS. [ARTICLE]

SUMMARY OF NEWS.

to estimates made by exKiperts, the farmers of California will receire somethin?: like 515.W0.00Q this sea|,*ou for such products of their orchards S and vineyards as are canned or dri<«d. f This is au advance of about $3,500,000 over the total received last year, p- By a decree in the Federal Court at gilKausas City the noted Mastin case, : which has dragged along in the Federal for five years, was ended. The d<orders Thomas H. Mastin to pay jf Julia Mastin $31,900. and divides the e>tate of John J. Mastin equally between | them. | ! .At Short Creek, nine miles above Wheeling, W. Va.. a n >rth-bound pass-*n- -- geer train collided with a sp»*cial front Pittsburg. the latter bringing delegations £ from western Pennsylvania to the :riState encampment of the uniform rank Knights of Pythias. Eight persons w re h* injured, two fatally. I’ The Judge Company, publishers at New | York, has pledged its copyrights, |K*rso:iI ai properly, stocks, bunds, contracts, trade-marks, etc., for SS.H),UOO to the Knickerbocker Trust Company. The mortgage secures gold bonds for the ■ above sum due iu ten. twelve and fifteen : years, at 4 per cent. Ex-City Treasurer C. L. Funk was •hot and killed by a highwayman on El Paso avenue, Pueblo, Colo., when going ’ to the depot to take a train for Cripple l Creek, where lie was engaged iu mining. His pocket tank was taken, but it mataiued only a small amount of money. Mr. Funk was 38 years old. I The standing of the clubs in the National League race is as foDowa: \V. L. W. L. Brooklyn ...08 4<> Pittsburg ...75 72 Boston 94 55 Chicago 74 72 Philadelphia !l2 7*7 Louisville .. .73 70 .Baltimore ..85 359 New Y0rk...58 88 St. L0ui5....84 HU Washington. 52 SHS Cincinnati ..79 97 Cleveland .. .20 130 At Reynolds, Ind., the bank was robbed of S!MM*) and wrecked by ail explo- ■ sion. Several citizens were aroused by the sound of the expiosiou. and President J. C. Van Atta ami Cashier DehlIng, with a number of others, reached , the building in time to see four men run to two buggies and dash away with the : horses in full gallop. A desperate street duel was fought at New Orleans between Dominick O'Mal- - ley, proprietor of the Evening Item, and C. Harrison Parker, editor of the Delta. Both were seriously, if not fatally, wounded. The trouble originated over a cartoon iu the Item representing Colonel Parker as a little dog led by a’ string by Gov. Foster and labeled "Me Too." The npi>el!ate court at Concordia, Kan., hnndcd down an opinion in the cases of Limboeker against McDowel ami Hoffman against Yoe, as regents of the State Agricultural College, holding that Gov. b Stanley illegally removed Limboeker ami f Hoffman from office as regents, and a £, writ of ouster was issued against Yoe i ; »nd McDowel, the present regents, and an order reinstating Limboeker and II off - ft man. The last-named are Populists, f Rev. AY. L. Woodward, one of the most I prominent ministers of Disciple Church | in ui*rthwestern Ohio, committed suicide | at his home iu Oak Harbor by shouting jy himself through the heart. lie had invitE'ed a numberof his congregation to spend I the evening with him. The last of the |. guests scarcely htul reached the gate to I go home before a pistol shot rang out. I?The minister was found prostrate on the I lioor with a bullet hole through his * breast. I One of the largest contracts for ships ; ever closed on the lakes was made at Cleveland when the American Shipbuild- * Ing Company secured tli ■ job of building i five steel freighters for the Cnrnegies Oliver steel interests. The steamers will f be duplicates. and nil! l*e 475 feet long, SO feet icam and 2b feet deep. The I total cost of each ship will be SSSS,t*UO. ■: The Carnegie Steel Company will furnish j§ all of the material for the boats, so they will be turned out by the opening of navigation next year. The engines will be r quadruple expansion.