Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1900 — WEEK’S NEWS RECORD [ARTICLE]

WEEK’S NEWS RECORD

In New York Milton Rathbun fasted for thirty-five days, ate heartily. During | the time of his fast Mr. Rathbun drank about three pints of water daily, but abstained entirely from food. lie weighs 164 pounds now, as against 207 when he began his fast. ft The Supreme Court of California handed down a decision by. which the validity e* of the trust will of the late Senator James G. Fair is upheld. The decision | will prevent Mrs. Nettie Craven, who : claims to be Fair’s widow, from getting more than SSO from the estate. The Kentucky State contest board has : awarded certificates of election to all of the Democratic contestants for minor State offices. The contestants were sworn in and repaired to the statehouse in a body, where they made a formal demand on the Republican incumbents for possession- , - One of the most disastrous tires that have visited Deshler, Ohio, occurced the other morning. One-fourth, of th? business portion of the town was burned in a remarkably short time. It' is estimated that the loss will reach $20,000. Seven blocks were burned and two others damaged somewhat. L. G. Burnham, second viee president of the United Fruit Company of Boston, and Hippolyte Dumois, the agent of the company at Havana, have purchased 198,000 acres of land on the Bay of Nipe from an old French syndicate. This is the largest land deal consummated in Cuba in many years. The sum of $750,000 is involved. At Ravenna, Ohio, the jury in the case of the State against John McGowen returned a verdict of murder in the first degree, and recommended mercy. The crime for wliich McGowen was convicted was committed at Edinburg Jan. 13, when N. K. Goss, a general merchant at that place, was shot and mortally wounded by burglars in his store. Mr. Grogan, an African traveler, who has been exploring the volcanic region in the neighborhood of Lake Tanganyika, found several active volcanoes which are discharging enormous streams of lava. The country is also victimized by a ferocious nomadic tribe of cannibals, called Baleka, from the Congo valley. They have almost depopulated what was formerly a densely occupied area. Three men, a woman and a child, who sj>ent two days and nights shipwrecked in Great Routh Bay, off Babylon, L. 1., and five members of the Fire Island lifesaving crew who went to their succor and were cut off from the main beach by ice floes and gales that swept the frozen area at the rate of eighty miles an hour, fought their way through the icepacks in a lifeboat and were safely landed at Fire Island. William H. Chisholm, a river man. committed suicide on the eighth floor ot the Odd Fellows' building at St. Louis. Chisholm was a member of Red Cross lodge, Knights of Pythias. He attended a meeting of the lodge, and shortly after 8 o’clock withdrew, crossed the hall to the lavoratory, placed a pistol to his breast and pulled the trigger, dropping dead with a bullet through his heart. Financial troubles are supposed to have been the cause for the act. Joseph Glean, farmer, living six miles north of Bluefield, W. Va., killed his daughter and her lover and then cut his own throat. Glean had forbidden Albert Marsh to call on his daughter. On returning home he found Marsh in the par lor with his daughter. He ordered Marsh to leave, and upon his refusal took up a shotgun and fired at him. Ellen Glean sprang in front of her lover and received the charge in hpr throat, dying instantly. The second shot killed Marsh. Glean then cut his own throat.