Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 December 1899 — WEEK’S NEWS RECORD [ARTICLE]

WEEK’S NEWS RECORD

The Kurds have avenged tile recent incunrion of Russian Armenians into the Alashgcrd district in Turkish Armenia, by pillaging the Armenian village of Kostur and massacring 3<A> of its inhabitants. Information was brought by the steamer Warrimoo from Australia of the atrocious murder of a white man and subsequent devouring of the body by_ the treacherous cannibals of the Admiralty islands. Senator Hayward died at Nebraska City. Neb. Aug. 15 he was stricken with, apoplexy while addressing a Modern Woodmen picnic assembly at Brownsville. Neb., and from that time bis strength gave way gradually. The Central Steel Company has been organized by Indianapolis and I’ittsbnvg capitalists, with a capital of $240.01 Hi. The new corporation has purchased the JBremier steel-plant at Indianapolis and will reopen the works. The People's Telephone corporation, the Knickerbocker Telephone Company and the American Telephone, -Telegraph and Cable Company. were consolidated at a meeting of the directors of the three corporations in New York. Charles J. Clarke, a prominent millionaire and philanthropist, died at Pittsburg Jrom concussion of the brain. Me was thrown from liis road wagon while out driving and never regained consciousness. Thevlcceased was (Mi years Of age. The crop bulletin of the Kansas Board of Agriculture for the present year- shows final returns of the State’s agricultural products ns follows: The winter wheat yield amounts to 12.815,171 bushels. ’1 lie yield of coni is 225.183,452 bushels. Maddened by :t fear that her husband would not he able to find work and that the family Would starve. Mrs. Annie Gleunnn of Brooklyn, X. Y., killed her <i-year-old daughter Mary and attempted the life of her other daughter and herself. The European Union of Astronomers announces, through Harvard College observatory, the discovery of a minor planet of the tenth magnitude by t harlois. The object has « motion of minus 14 minutes iu right ascension and 4 minutes north in declination. In Philadelphia George X. Hey I, 52 years old, was burned to death in a tire which occurred in ids shop, while he was sleeping, lleyl’s body was found leaning against the front door. It is believed he was endeavoring to escape when he was overcome by smoke, A feature of the opening day of the l>ecomber term of I,a Moille Couut.v Court at Hyde Park, Vt., was the hearing of a euit for divorce brought by the wellknown actress. Julia Marlowe Taber, from her husband, Robert S. Taber. She alleges intolerable severity. Col. Harvey, who is acting agent of the State Trust Company in the management Of Harper ic Bros, of New York, says that the famous old publishing house had (sold to the American Book Company the publication rights of its entire line of college and high school test books, comprising 450 works. At Mn.vsville, Ky.. Dick Coleman, the negro murderer of Mrs. Lashbrook, was taken from the officers by a mob of 1,000 men ami burned at the stake. The mob, led by the husband of the negro’s victim, dragged the shrieking criminal through the principal streets of the town, bound him to a small free, set fire to brush and tow about him, and stood guard until he was dead.