Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1900 — SUMMARY OF NEWS. [ARTICLE]

SUMMARY OF NEWS.

Anton Wood, Thomas Reynolds, “Kid” Wallace and oqe Wagner, four convicts in the penitentiary at Canon City, Colo., . stabbed William C. Roney, captain of the night watch, to death, captured and bound two other guards and made their escape. Rot. Mother Sujieribr Anastasia is dead at St. Joseph's Convent, Lockport, N. Y., aged 75 years. She was mother superior of the Sisters of St. Mary of the United States and Canada. Last September she .celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of her coronation. Leroy W. Secor, who emliezzled $17,000 from the Goodrich Transi»ortatiou Company at Milwaukee, has confessed to the officers in New York City, where he was arrested. He will help the Goodrich people straighten out his books and then take his punishment. The Glasgow steamer Ardandhu, from New London. Conn., for Halifax, N. S., was sunk in collision with tin* Metropolitan liner Herman Winter, from Boston for New Y’ork, off Robinson’s Hole, Vineyard sound. Mass., and two of the Ardandhu’s crew were lost. At Mitchell. S. 1).. Judge Smith has appointed O. P. Auld of Plankinton receiver for the defunct Plankinton Bank. The appointment of a receiver was contested by the attaching creditors. The non-attaching creditors will attempt to have the attachment dissolved. After maintaining for over six weeks that he wns suffering for the crime of others, Levi Steward, the colored ixan who is lying in the Sandwich. Ont., jail under sentence of death, confessed that he was the murderer of "Old Jim" Ross in Windsor. The murder wns committed July 18. Robbery was the A large part of the town of Ward, a mining camp in the mountains, fifteen miles from Boulder, Colo., was destroyed by a fire which started in the McClancy Hotel. A high wind was blowing and the fire spread rapidly among the frame buildings, but did not reach the mills and mines, which are just outside the town. The loss will probably amount to $50,01)0. John Smith, a former resident of Detroit. was devoured by wolves a short distance from a logging camp where he was employed near Presque Isle, Mich. He strayed from the camp in the early evening, as he was in the habit of doing, nnd the next morning his partially devoured body was found in the snow. Smith was a veteran of the SpanishAmerican war. Advices from the north substantiate file report of a big tire at Dawson. It destroyed buildings and merchandise to the value of S4OO,(MM». The news comes by telegraph from Dawson to Skaguay. The fire is supiwised to have originated trom a defective Hue. The flames burned about 400 feet along the principal street, laying in ashes many of the costliest aud most substantial structures in the Klondike metropolis. Samuel Peter Mayers, convicted of the murder of Michael Karney nnd John Lenhart, was hanged in the county jnil yard at Somerset. Pa. The crime for which he was banged was the outcome •if a dispute with his father over the possession of some property. The father claimed a life interest in the property and with the assistance of Karney and a man named Baker attemphnl to take possession. Young Mayers shot Karney dead, and later, when Lenhart, who was a constable, tried to arrest him. he killed him also. The United States Circuit Court of Ap|»eals at New York affirmed, with costs, the decision of Judge Lacombe dismissing the habeas corpus proceedings in the case of former Captain Oberlin M. Carter of the United States Engineers, convicted by court martial of frauds in connection with the Savannah River and Cumberland Sound improvements. The decision was signed by Judges Wallace and Shipman. Carter is a prisoner at Fort William, but has been sentenced to six years at Fort Leavenworth, Kan. He was also ordered to pay a tine, which he has already done