Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1900 — EVENTS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

EVENTS OF THE WEEK

An explosion of a tank in the gasoline storehouse of A. G. Wykoff nt Raritan, N. Y,, called out the fire engines. While the firemen were at work a second tank exploded and its flnniing contents enveloped and terribly burned A. H. Conyne and A. J. Chamberlain. In the United States Court in Boston Charles H. Cole, former president-of the now defunct Globe National Bank of that city, who recently pleaded guilty to charges of misappropriation of funds <st the institution, was sentenced to serve eight years in Greenfield jail. After a conference with the President, nt which an understanding was reached by which he will be appointed a brigadier general in the regular army, Gen. Joseph Wheeler gave out a Iptter announcing that he w'ould not stand for re-elect ion to the House from the Eighth district of - Alabama. A quarrel between children at Dunmore, Pa., was followed by Mrs. MaryPace, mother of one of the children, making a furious attack on Mrs. Sylvester Bellows, mother of the other child, -with a butcher knife. Mrs. Pace repeatedly slashed her with the weapon and inflicted a fatal wound. Becoming dizzy while in the steeple of St. Patrick’s Church at Lowell, Mass., Thomas McDermott, a painter, lost his balance agd fell 175 feet, striking a ridge of slate roof, bounding high in the air, striking again, then going downward-till his body struck a picket fence and was literally torn to pieces. The body of Charles N. Bertram was taken from the North river in New York. ' Bertram disappeared from his home at 6 West 104th street, April 27, while suffering from dementia. Frank Bertram, a brother, said the dead man was 43 jears old and that he was once manager of the Columbia Theater in Chicago. A terrible accident, resulting in th* death of from thirty to forty persons, took place at Roneiglione, on the Lake of Vico, Italy, during a celebration of the fete of St. Lucie, whose chapel is on the shore of the lake. Two boat* filled with young people capsized while returning from the chapel within 300 yards of the landing stage. The flag of the Thirtieth Louisiana Confederate regiment, captured before Atlanta on July 28, 18<J4, by the Fortysixth Ohio, was surrendered to the survivors of the latter regiment by the Governor at Columbus, Ohio. The flag will be returned to the survivors of the Southern regiment at a Confederate reunion in Louisville June 1. The standing of the clubs In the Na tional League is as follows: W. L. W. L. Philadelphia 14 6 St. L0ui5....10 11 Brooklyn ...13 8 Cincinnati ... 0 11 Pittsburg ...13 0 New’ York... 6 14 Chicago ....13 10 Boston 5 14 In the American League the standings are: W. L. W. L. Indianapolis. 14 6 Buffalo 8 11 Milwaukee ..14 7 Minneapolis. 11 13 Chicago ....13 10 Kansas City. 9 14 Cleveland ...10 9 Detroit 6 15