Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1900 — EVENTS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

EVENTS OF THE WEEK

The Bourbon Stock Yards Company of Louisville, controlled by the Cudahy* of Chicago, is to have a rival. -The Union Stock Yards Company, backed by the Illinois Central and Big Four railroads, has been organized with a capital stock of $200,000. 2 The highest court in Ontario has declared that ih«j Ontario Government hpd the right to prohibit the export of logs cut within the province and to compel their manufacture Into—hnnbe* within Ontario. The Michigan lumbermen will appeal to the privy council. Three Chinese, partners in a laundry at Morenei, Ariz., were found dead in their workroom. Two had been shot in the head while in their-beds, while the third had made a desperate fight for his life. The premises had been ransacked. Several thousand dollars in coin is missing. “Don't wake the children. Let us all go to Jesus together." These were the last words of Mrs. James Roberts of Goldsboro, N. C., before sending a bullet iuto her ligeast. She had given her two little children laudanum. Her husband came home in time to save the children. Jealousy was the cause. By the death of an uncle in Hungary, Mrs. Annie Stein of St. Louis has fallen heir to $1,000,000. Together with her husband. Marcus Stein, and their children, Mrs. Stein will sail early in May to take possession of her inheritance, $4,000 having been sent her to defray the expenses of the trip to Europe. The second railroad line ever built into Hot Springs. Ark., has just been opened. It is Little Hack. Hot Springs and Memphis Railroad, and it will run a through train service from Memphis tollot Springs. In connection with the Illinois Central, it will furnish a direct route between Chicago and Hot Springs. One man was shot and instantly killed, and six others were wounded in a riot which has been in progress at the BnkerVawter company in Chicago for the past few months. Hurry C, Baster, superintendent of the mills, iirod nine shots at an attacking party, with fatal result's to IVter Miller, a picket fur the union forces. Queen Victoria has granted 'to the Duke of Fife —son-in-law of the Prince ofWales —the dignitaries of an earl and duke of the United Kingdom, under the titles of Earl of Mac Duff and Duke of Fife, with the remainder, in default of a male heir, to the elder surviving daughter, and successively to the male heirs of the daughters by his wife, the Princess Louise of Wales. William Kuhn of Philadelphia, a former State Senator of Virginia, attempted suicide by cutting his throat with a pot-k----etknlfo. Soon after the removal of Kuhn to the hospital the police found his wife, Lulu, aged 24, lying unconscious in the side yard. After being revived she made a statement charging her husband with having attempted to kill her by throwing her from a second story window. Had tho earth opened to swallow her, the disappearance of Florence Leonhard t of St. Louis, It! years old. could not have been more complete or more mysterious. The last seen of her was when she took her little brother to u dentist to have hue tooth extracted. She sent him up to the dentist's otliee and said she would wait outside, but when be came hack in ten minutes she was gone.