Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1900 — SUMMARY OF NEWS. [ARTICLE]

SUMMARY OF NEWS.

Buapsaaion of the wire mills of the American Steel and; Wire Company in Pittsburg district, over which there Was much anxiety, has been brief. The wire departments of the works ace in operation again, while the nail mills will probably be idle some time. At Lancaster, Ohio, the divorce case of Moses Swift against Martha Swift was to be heard and the defendant had arrived from Chicago to tight the case, the next morning the plaintiff died, with the defendant on her knees at his bedside praying for his restoration. A dispatch from Manila announces that Cj»t James S. Pettit of the Thirty-first regiment of volunteers, in command at Zamboanga, has been court niartialed for handing a prisoner of war over to President Medel) of Zamboanga, who killed the prisoner at once without trial. Sullivan M. Cutcheon, ex-Speaker of the Michigan House of Representatives Hid prominent iu local business circles, died at his residence in Detroit, aged <>7 years. While Ktqtertatendent of schools at Pittsfield, 111., in 1858 he became an ultimate friend x>f President Lincoln. Chicago tailors who were locked out Fell. 15 have returned to work, the contract between the Journeymen Tailors’ i nion and the Tailors and Drapers’ Exchange having“been drawn up and signed by representatives of both Isidies. The exchange wins every point in the* Controversy. President Patton of Princeton announced' that the university had recently received the sum of, $45,000 by the will of August Van Winkle of Hazleton, Pa., $25 ,000 to be used in the erection of a gateway on the campus and $20,000 for a register’s office to be connected with the gateway.

United States Engineer L. H. Hyer, who has been engaged in the preliminary survey of one of the proposed routes for the Nicaragua canal, either fell or jumped overboard from the steamship Jarl, from Bluefields, off South Pass, at the mouth of the Mississippi river. The body was not recovered. Robbers broke into the State Bank of West Pullman, HL, and made an ineffectual attempt to open the time lock safe. They were scared away by two policemen and fled without securing any booty. The safe, which contained between $lO,000 and $12,000, was partly wrecked by the use of explosives. * Chief of Police Alex. A. Main of Stevenston, B. <?•• was found murdered. His body was literally hacked to pieces. Chief Main had made successive raids on the hold-up men and thugs whoh ave caused trouble in former years, and it is supposed that his death is their revenge on his work against them. The delegate meeting of the block coal miners and operators at Brazil, Ind., resulted in the settlement of the suspension of work in the mines by the signing of the contract, the miners conceding the operators’ demand-for semi-monthly pay after having been out for a month. Three thousand miners have returned to work. The will Elian Chrisman, who died in Topeka recently, has been tiled iu the probate court there. She bequeaths the greater part «of a fortune, estimated at $250,000, for the founding of the University of Topeka. The bequest is contingent on the Methodist Church of Kansas raising an equal amount within ten years. At Lima, Ohio, the Circuit Court has affirmed the verdict of a judgment of $lB.000 and interest against N. L. Michael, V. P. and Gun Kalb, officials of the American National Bank at the time it was robbed of the money a year ago. The stockholders brought suit to recover the money so mysteriously stolen, alleging negligence upon the part of the officials.