Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1900 — SUMMARY OF NEWS. [ARTICLE]

SUMMARY OF NEWS.

The training Ship Mohican, Captain Drake, has gone into commission at Mure -Island, San Francisco, and within a few days will take on board about INK) landsmen who have boon recruited in the East. The Mohican will then go on an eighteen months’ cruise. Mrs. Olin Castle, whose throat was eut June 22 by Miss Jessie Morrison, died at Eldorado, Kan. Immediately after her death the eharge of assault with intent to kill was dismissed against Tim* Morrison, and she was arrested charged with murder in the first degree. The report of the United States assay office at Seattle for the fiscal year ending June SO has just been issued. During that time 5,088 deposits, aggregating $13,680',326.58, have been received. This is more than double the amount received for the year ending June 30,1890. William Beatty, an aged farmer of near ('oopersville, Ohio, in n fit of ma niaeal fury, tried to murder the wife o i the Itev. Mr. Kourds and then put. an end to his own life. Mrs. Hoards has been living with Beatty as his housekeeper anil he became deeply enamored of her. A sharp, clearly defined explosion resembling the discharge of a cannon was heard at Peru, I'nd., the other night, followed four seconds later by a rumbling noise lasting eight seconds. Houses were shaken and their occupants aroused. Many think it was an earthquake shock. The Comptroller of the currency has declared dividends in favor of the creditors of insolvent national banks us follows: Ten per cent. Globe National of Boston, Mass.; 10 per cent. Citizens'’ National of Fargo, N. 1).; UK-10 per cent, the Mutual National of New Orleans, La. J. P, McDonald of Knoxville, Twin., has been awarded the contract to build a railroail iu Ecuador for the Ecuador As•delation of Scotland. The confraf-t price is $10,000,000.“ The road will be lit HI miles long and will extend from Guayaquil to Quito, through the Andes mountains. The business section of Walnut, 111,, whs destroyed by lire. The burned buildings include the Walnut Bank, the opera house, Faber Brothers’ dry goods store, the Fisher Hotel, the Ennis elevator, railway depot and Merger's drug store. The loss is 100,000 uud the insurance SOO,OOO. By the overturning of a rowboat in the Washington Park lagoon, in Chicago, two girls and a young man were drowned within sight of another boat, load of pleasure seekers and half a dozen spectators on the bank sixty feet away. The fourth member of the party was saved by those in the near-by craft after he had made vain effort to rescue his companions. Train No. 54(i, known as the "blind baggage ‘money train," on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, was wrecked near Folsom station, eight miles south of Philadelphia. The engine and live cars were ditched. The disaster was evidently caused by robbery, for it was known that one of the-curs carried a large sum of money. The train was running at the rate of fifty miles an hour when it was derailed. One person was seriously hurt. The standing of the clubs in the National League is as follows: W. L. W. L. Brooklyn ...42 22 Cincinnati ...32 35 Chicago . . ..3(1 31 St. Louis... .251 34 Pittsburg ...36 31 Boston 211 35 Philadelphia 35 31 New Y0rk...21 41 Following is the standing iu the American League: W. L. W. L. Chicago ....43 28 Kansas City .35 41 Indianapolis 30 20 Detroit 31 30 Milwaukee ..40 31 Minneapolis. 32 41 Cleveland ...36 32 Buffalo 28 43