Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 November 1899 — SUMMARY OF NEWS. [ARTICLE]

SUMMARY OF NEWS.

Near Joplin, Mo., three big zinc mines, known ns the Cock Robin, Pelican and Chicago Consolidated, the projierties of 1 Thayer & Chandler of Chicago, were I sold to the United Zinc Company for SIOO,OOO. sr The minor is current throughout the oil field that an English syndicate has purchased the holdings of the Indiana Pipe Line and Refining Company, the Cudahys and the Manhattan Oil Company in Ohio ■ and Indiana, the purchase price lieing $0,000,000. \V. D. Jacobs find Ed Harrison, who were out prospecting, are believed to have been lost in a recent severe snowstorm which prevailed at Battle Lake, Wyo. Their outfit and dead horses were found in a deep ravine about sis miles from town. Telegraph messages were trausmited by the Poliak-Virag system from Chicago to Milwaukee and return at the rate of 12,000 words an hour. Later ••dots"’ and “dasites” were sent to Buffalo and back nt the rate of 00,000 words nu hour. With assets amounting to S3O,(KM) and liabilities $20,000, the Yankton. S. D. Savings Bank was forced to close its doors after a three days’ run oeeasionad by the defalcation of County Treasurer A. Peterson, who was known to deal extensively with that bank. Two thousand sheep belonging to the Ctsliles Sheep Company were driven from Wyoming into Routt County, Colo., to the range forty miles northwest of Craig. Later fifty masked men captured the herders and then proceeded to kill the entire flock. The herders were warned not to bring any more sheep into Colorado and were released. Frank M. Parker, Jr., special agent of the North American Trust Company of New York to Spanish Honduras, speak- ■ iug of the financial condition of the republic, said: ‘Spanish Honduras is today in a much better financial condition than any other of the Central American republic*, tile exchange there lieitig only 125. while in Guatemala it is about 500.” Joseph C. Cockburn, a proiniuent citizen of Logausport, lud., suffered a stroke of apoplexy while seated at his desk in his private office. He fell from his seat in such a manner that his head did not touch the floor, hut instead was propfied up against the bottom of his desk. His collar wus thus pressed tightly nlKiut his throat nud he clinked to death without being able to help himself. Frederick and Henry Blinders, father and son, farmers.of Richfield, Ohio, were arrested on a charge of the murder of Airs. 1\ finders. The woman was found in the garden dead, with her throat cut and n knife in her hand. Henry Blinders was taken ill recently with typhoid fever. The doctor told him he could not recover, and it is now alleged that he made a deutli-l»ed confession, claiming that lie and his father murdered the wife and step-mother. West-bound passenger train No. 5 on the Baltimore and Ohio road ran into the rear end of a west-bound freight train near MeCook’s station, lud.. while running at n high rate of s|M>ed. causing a bad wreck, killing Engineer Bradford of the passenger train, nud injuring Engineer Barber anil two firemen. The accident occurred during a dense fog. The passenger train was drawn by two engines. Both engines, two postal cars and three express ears were derailed and thrown into the ditch, j