Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 March 1900 — SUMMARY OF NEWS. [ARTICLE]

SUMMARY OF NEWS.

ffAnnounecmeiit is made that the Met'ro&itan Life Insurance Company of New fcjfork has acquired the business of the ironnont Insurance Company of BurlingHk. Vt. The deal involves the transfer | $55,000,000 of insurance in force and a ~ pah payment of about .$70,000 by the BafotfonoHtau. In Kingston, N. Y„ fire destroyed a (LJlarge four-story brick building owned by ■puis Etting & Sons, together with a big afeocU of clothing. The American ExfjHresa Company’s office. A. Carr A Sons’ p'Hndertaking establishment, and “The ArnHade'’ were also damaged. The loss will Ifeaeh $75,000. I Harlan Whittaker of Butler County, Charged with murder in connection with |ibc assassination of William Goebel, was tpeld over, without bail, at the examining fftrial at Frankfort, Ivy., and Silas Jones ||of Whitley County was held over on s.>oo Ifbond to await the action of the Franklin County grand jury. JftTko safe in the offlee of the Hand -ferewing Company at Darlington, a subprb of Pawtucket, It. 1.. was blown open £nd upward of $3,500 in cash, more thaw $1,(>00 worth of revenue stamps and l&hecks aggregating upward of SI,OOO Ijwere stolen. The damage by the explo|&lon will add SSOO to the loss. K An entirely new aspect has been given ft (to the matter of a railroad extension to ffjthe north end of Vancouver island and connection by ferry with the mainland |f:J»y a rumor which has gained currency > (during the last few days that J. J. Hill If jof the Great Northern Railway is inIfjteresting himself in the project. Hf Two State college students, E. G. Gai|||tber and James It. Seeley, fought nine ||*onnds of two minutes each with their jl fists on the college athletic grounds at pEexington, Ky., to settle a quarrel and Klnsult given Gaither by Seeley. Only a | kimekeeper witnessed the battle, which f unded by a knockout blow on Seeley’s | jright eye. I The Buffulo syndicate which has been f prospecting for oil struck a rich vein at ftthe Vannette well, located near Tiffin, f (Ohio. One hundred barrels per hour ■f have been running and it is estimated it hat 500 barrels per diem will be the § (steady flow. When the well was shot I oil was thrown fifty feet over the derI rick and acres were deluged. I ■ James D. Burns and George T. Stalls ings of Detroit have closed the purchase f pf the Detroit club of the American s ’Baseball League. The price is $12,000 jcasb. This will enable the divorced wife jof George A. Vanderbeek, the late owner, jto collect the alimony granted her, amounting to some SB,OOO, and will end the further litigation of the matter. H The Supreme Court of Ohio reversed ■the finding of the lower courts in the ‘famous Hayes dog ease and sent the ease jbaok to the courts of Sandusky County • 'for a new trial. The suit was instituted ; by Mrs. Addle Smith of Fremont, who ; sought to recover from the estate of the late ex-PresSdeut Hayes $25,000 far pcr- ■ m.inent injuries sustained in a runaway I caused by a dog kept at the Hayes home. | The locomotive hauling the Chicago fast freight west on the Pittsburg, Fort | Wayne and Chicago Railroad, crashed through the steel bridge spanning Robinson street, Allegheny, Pa., and dragged the tender and one ear with it. Fireman | A. N. Miller of Bolivar, Pa., and Brakemun George Dewnld of Pitcairn, Pa., were killed outright, and Conductor Jus. ; F. Martin of Pitcairn, Pn., dangerously injured. A fire entailing an estimated loss of over $700,000 occurred in the retail dry .■ goods district of Philadelphia. The conflagration originated in the engine room I of Shoneman Bros.’ dry goods and millinery store. A general alarm was sounded, but all efforts to save the building •were fruitless and it was leveled. The loss is placed at $300,000. Marks Bros.’ dry goods store, adjoining, was partly damaged by smoke and water, and their storehouse was completely gutted, entailing an estimated loss of $300,000. The flames spread to the six-story building on Cherry street, occupied by Myerhoff Bros., and the Philadelphia Electrical Equipment Company. Nothing was left of this place bnf the walls. The loss is placed at $200,000.