Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1900 — WEEK’S NEWS RECORD [ARTICLE]

WEEK’S NEWS RECORD

• Couaty Jailer Alfred Henry, while feeding the prisoners in the Howell County jail at West Plains. Mo., was overpowered and killed by two prisoners, Ben Richardson and Ed Grady. The prisonrtw escaped and locked the door after them. The body of Andrew Gauze, a negro, was found dangling from the limb of a tree near Henning. Tenn. Gauze was captured by a mob and lynched because he aided thie Gingerly brothers, assassins of Officers Turner and Dunn, in making theirescape. The Sheriff of Robinson County. Tennessee. was compelled to hur£y to Nashville with Will Morrison, a young white naan, to save him from being lynched. Morrison two weeks ago murdered W. D. Coffman, a young telegraph operator, and has jnst been arrested. Herr Hild. formerly concert master for Theodore Thomas, is now a prisoner in New York, charged with attempting to take his own life. The police found Hild lying on the floor. bis left wrist bleeding from a wound made by a penknife. A surgeon found the wound only slight. A riot between the boys in the grammar room of the Cortland, Neb., public school and the teacher, J. G. Ludlain, •ss'urred the other day. For weeks there had been bad feeling between the teacher and the pupils. The pedagogue held his own with the aid of a rawhide. - The Ontario superintendent of immigration has rvcriv<*d reports from most •of his agents in the I'nited States, a«d estimates that nearly 14,000 settlers from the republic have Iwcome residents of Canada during the last year. Kansas and Arkansas supplied the greater part. William A. English, a son of the former Itemocratic vice-presidential candidate from Indiana and a captain of volunteers in the war with Spain, has returned to the treasury a check for sl,’'172 sent him for pay for his army tervices, with the statement that he would not accept pay for service to his country in time of danger. A St. Johns, X- F., magistrate has received the damaged life buoy picked up in St. Mary’s Bay. On the life buoy are the letters “elgoland," and underneath is the latter part of another word. What is legible is “mnnd.” No doubt these letters are part of the word “Geestermnnde." the Helgoland’s port of registry. At Chippewa Falls. Wis., John SeeMger, 15 years old. found a large amount of money which had lieen hidden by Cooper Snyde. an old furrier who had lived the |ife of a hermit up to the time of his death a month ago. The boy, in pulling over some old boxes- of fur clippings ami rags, ran across currency in denominations of from $1 up to SIOO. There was also a box of gold and silver pieces, about S4OO in all. Albert L. Hodge, a colored burglar, had a desperate tight with Sheriff Snowand two deputies at the residence of .Mrs. Nathan Colematl. in Texas township, Mich. The thief was discovered by a neighbor, and the hottse was soon surrounded. The negro made a dash out. bring at Deputy Clark as he tied. Clark's face was burned ami his scalp grazed. In the fight w hich followed fourteen shots were fin'd Indore Hodge was captured. Hodge was hit twice and seriously, though not fatally, wou'uded. Deputy Clark saved himself by dodging behind a tree, in which five bullets from Hodge’s weapon were imbedded. Hodge is 67 years of age and a civil war veteran. He has served time for burglary. A hundred persons in the lobby of the Capitol Hotel at Frankfort, Ky., saw a duel to the death between Col. David G. Colson and Lieut. Ethel tier t Scott. The duelists dodged about among the panic-stricken throng trying to get range of each other, firing at every opportunity. Scott was'' kilted. Colson was badly wounded, two bystanders were slain by ■tray bullets, two other non-combatants were wonnded. and a seventh man suffered a fractured leg as the result of a rdlision with Lieut. Scott when the latter fell lifeless down the street stairway •f the hotel. The dnel was the result of • fend between Colson and Scott, which grew up between them while they were la the volunteer army during the war ■with Spain.