Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1899 — EVENTS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

EVENTS OF THE WEEK

K|jphe correspondent in Guayaquil, .KcuaKlur, telegraphs that the custom house, ■Ran Jose Chureli and the theater block in Hpst city were destroyed by tire. The Ktotal bjowses arc estimated at 1,500,000 H'Tfae Supreme Court of Minnesota, in a Bjpase where a husband sought to secure Kjpposftession of his wife, agetl 13 years, deRnded that girls under age can marry Bprfthont their parents’ consent, notwitliEuanding the State law on age of conBent. | The Court of Visitation created by the Kansas Legislature at its latest session has been declared invalid by Judge Hook pf the United States Circuit Court at Topeka. The function of the court was to regulate railroads and telegraph companies. ■ Dr. William It. Brooks, director or Smith Observatory, has just been award *>d by the Paris Academy of Sciences the Grand Lalande prize for liis numerous and brilliant astrouomical discoveries. ';The prize is a gold medal worth 500 francs. j? ! The local lodge of Modern Woodmen at , Lushton, Neb., will contest the payment • of $2,000 life insurance on Sherman Me- { Faddcn, a member, who died there. M<.Fadden was a Christian scientist and re- ' f u«*d the lodge’s request to employ a whysiciau. - Yokohama advices say that a terrible f-condition of affairs prevails at New Chwang, Manchuria, with respect to the j bubonic plague. Hundreds of deaths are oeeurriug weekly, the mortality Touching i forty to sixty every day. The disease is j lM'ginniug to spread over Manchuria. The Pennsylvania company has aequir- - ed control of the Baltimore and Ohio. At the same time W. K. Vanderbilt, in the ■lnterest of the New York Central, takes over the controlling holdings of J. P. Morgan in the Cleveland, Cincinnati, < Chicago and St. Louis uud the Chesa- ; (make and Ohio. Captain Whalen of the schooner Harry f L. Belden, at Boston, reported the loss of | the Boston fishing schooner Sylvester i Whalen as the result of a collision with | the Portland schooner Major Pickands, i and the death of Patrick Powers and Mi- ; chnel Corrigan, two of the Whalen’s | crew, in the accident. The transport Manauense, with Limit. | Col. Webb Hayes and three companies | of the Thirty-first infantry on hoard, lias K arrived at Manila. She narrowly escaped ' disaster. The officers and soldiers were H for twelve days hailing with buckets. I Her engines broke down and she rolled ■ three days in a typhoon. The Donaldson Line steamer Hestia, I front Baltimore for Glasgow, has arrived fe- at Greenock with the crew of the Amort* R can schooner 11. and J. Bleuderman, |, from Hillsboro, N. 8., for New York. I The shipwrecked seamen were rescued in ;■ latitude 40, longitude (55, much exhaust* ed, having been for thirty-six hours in au I open boat. After suffering awful agony for two | days, Joseph Gibbs, aged 32 years, died f in the Chester County, Pa., Home for I Hydrophobia Patients. His wife is nff: tlicted with the same disease at her home. I Gibbs and his wife were bitten by a rabid | dog about two months ago. He was scut jp to New York, where he received the l’ns- | tour treatment. I? The difficulties under which the pttbi lishing house of Harper & Brothers, New 1 York, lias, according to rumor, been lu- » boring for many months, resulted in the ; entire business passing from the hands of the Harpers into the control of the State Trust Company, acting us trustees f for J. P. Morgan & Co., holders of $3,fr 500,000 in mortgage bonds.