Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 October 1899 — EVENTS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

EVENTS OF THE WEEK

“wi .».• Hpng*d children of the late Robert Bon■fljtt, “have begun salt at New York to ■lt&iitest liis will. They allege that when 81 was made, ten days before Mr. ‘a death, he was mentally incomand was improperly influenced by ters. d« <ew’ England transfer elevator at Chicago, owned by Latter & , was burned to the ground. The re was used by the (Rand Trunk din transferring grain. Twenty td bushels of wheat in storage iirned. The loss is $100,(XX). tim of melancholia resultant from th, Helen Banfield, wife of W. S. I, a banker, committed suicide at lo Springs by shooting. She had rtaken of luncheon with her hustkd six children, and retired to her a. The bullet entered the heart. Casino at Green Labe; Win., was ed by fire between <5 and 6 o'clock er morning and Mt; and Mrs. F. ks, who were living on the third ■ the building at the time, were to death. The loss will be $35,QOQ qn the building and SIO,OOO on the §?• contents. «. E- . At Tacoma, Wash., the American bark | Wilna, Ca'pt. John Slater, caught fire jjj her hold and became a total loss. [ She"Wns'loading at the St. Pfttil and Ta- ' coma Lufiibcr Company's mill for Australia and had.. 400,000 feet of lumber below her decent the time of the lire, i .The total loss ,yi*l be $31,000. As a result «ts the wont storm in Tel: ton County, Mont., four sheep herders are known to be dead and eight others fc are missing. The severity of storms may S'- be judged by the fact that it took four horses four days to bring in one body on | a toboggan. The snow is four feet deep on the level in parts of Teton County.) Captain Powell of the steamer John p Plaukinton reports passing through a large amount of wreckage on Lake lluI ron off Point Attx Barques. The wreekp age consisted of cabin doors, painted green, mattresses, pillows and the deck- | house, apparently fTom a steamer. Noth- | ing can be learned of the identity of the I ship. & . One person was killed and nine others tvere injured, several probably fatally, in a tirade crossing accident at Seymour, I6Vrh. A wagon in which were tun young SfWi honbd across the country to ehaVP vati a newly married couple was struck by an east-bound meat train on the Rock Island roud and knocked from the track. - WiHeCuppkvß was killed outright. .. Wtavtfc excitement prevails at Olive ; .Ohio, as the result of the arrest qf. .several prominent citizens for an alleged attempt to lynch Ira Stevens, a f married man, who, it is alleged, has for the last three years annoyed the commnnity. The crowd, it is alleged, placed I, a rope around Stevens' neck, and after I dragging him two miles started for the woods to hang him. His piteous cries || moved them to leniency. £ Reports from Duluth state that timber speculators have discovered a way lo ge-t possession of about all the best unI surveyed government pine bearing land Ip the northern port of the State with p old “forestry scrip.’’ These scrip holdep« are looking up the best land and plasf, trying it with their forestry scrip, for Sich they have paid $2 to $3 an acre. ! pifie land'is worth at least S2O an ■ acre the size of the profit is apparent. |; if ate John Widoseu of the scaling' schooner Bowhead has reached San Fratteisco front Ihe far north with a story H of.:the terrible experiences of himself and twts sailors for fifteen days in an open boat .in the Arctic ocean. They narrow- , escaped wrpek several ttmes and at the last their boat swamped off lloskinuta, a small coast settlement. Their f peril was* seen from the shore and they were rescued. They then tramped eighty ttlllea'across country to Yukon, where they were picked up and taken down the river. l’ The most serious fire in the history of | Knightstown,, Ind., broke out. Three lives were lost and property worth $160,000 pr more was destroyed. The dead fe men were members of the voliinfeei'. lire department and were lighting the lire i . when the front wall of a three-story building fell outward. They were caught H by the falling bricks and crushed to death. The Masonic Temple, the largest building in the city, was in the path of t the flames and was destroyed, together V with the building occupied by K. O. Anto derson, dealer in household.,g/vd*; Green If, Brothers, saloon,, and Davey Brothers, dealers in notions. The fire is supposed ' to have originated from an,.explosion of natural gas.