Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1900 — SUMMARY OF NEWS. [ARTICLE]

SUMMARY OF NEWS.

The south bound Louisville and Nashville passenger train ran into a freight which was entering a switch at Cave City, Ky. The engine went over on Its side. Fonr freight ears were wrecked. Five passengers were hurt, none seri- , onsly. A discovery of coal has been made in the Laurentian mountains, province of Quebec, which is believed to be of considerable importance. The stratum bearing the coal is some forty or fifty feet below the surface and its extent remains to be seen. Ellsworth Evans, alias “Jocko Jones,” shot and instantly killed Assistant City (Marshal William llennecke at Boonyille, Mo,/ When shot Marshal Hennecke was attempting to arrest Evans after the latter had robbed a cigar store. Evans was captured. After experimenting for fifteen years, Thomas Burkholder of Hosensaek, I’a., Ims perfected a new method of tanning hides, and he has sold his secret to a party of Allentown capitalists for $25,000 down and a royalty of 2 cents on every hide tanned. The dead body of William Hootenbardner of Wapakoneta. Ohio, who was traveling through the country selling medirine, was found in the road near Beaver Darn with his pockets rilled. He had nearly SI,OOO when last seen. It is supposed he was murdered. Policemen George W. Kirkley and .1. 11. Adams were shot and seriously injured Within a block of the police station at Birmingham, Ala., by two men, supposed to be safe crackers. The men were suspected of theft, and were being taken to the station house for examination. Joseph Stahl was blown through a stone wall and instantly killed by the explosion of eleven dryers in a paper machine in the 11. F. Watson Company’s mill at Erie, I’a. Five other employes were so badly hurt that they may die. The property damage amounted to $20,000.

The huge Daniel Hcotten tobacco plant at Detroit, which became a part of the Continental Tobacco Company two years ago, by the payment of altout $5,000,000 to the Scottens, will be dismantled and removed. The 1,600 employes have been notified that their services will not Is* needed after May 1. Miss Elsie Tyson of Humboldt, Cai., has sailed for England with an Australian attorney to assist in establishing the claim of the children and grandchildren of John Tyson, who died in New Providence, N. J., thirty years ago. to the $13,000,000 estate of James Tyson, who died in Melbourne in 1888. An attempt wr made to rob the Doi Jar bank at FlusiP>ig, Ohio. The robbers blew o)K‘n the door with dynamite, but the explosion awakened the inhabitants, and upon the arrival of armed citizens the burglars fled. The door of the vault was blown off the hinges, and the buildlug was badly damaged. Mrs. Frances M. Wolcott, granted a divorce from Senator Wolcott of Colorado March 6, has lost jewelry valued at about $40,000. She carried her jewels to Faris in a specially constructed portmanteau, which she never trusted out of her sight. One day, however, she absent-mindedly left it in her carriage in front of her hotel and no trace of the jewels has since been found. Remarkable coolness was displayed by Albert Stedge, 17 years old, of Chicago, after killing William Hobson, a boarder in his mother’s house, in defense of his . mother. He struck Hobson in the head with a barrel stave in front of his home, And then calmly went into the house, told his mother what he had done and ■went to bed, leaving the itody of his victim lying on the walk. Stedge was arrested.