Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 July 1900 — EVENTS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

EVENTS OF THE WEEK

Train No. 102 of the Illinois Central left the rails owing to an obstruction ncnr Hillside, Ky., and the road officials tiro inclined to believe that it whs th» result of another attempt at train robbery. The engine and the mail Couch were badly wrecked. A passenger train on the Wabash llail* road jumped the track near Seventyninth street, in Chicago, the engine and baggage car toppled over into a pool of water. Although the. occupants of the coaches were considerably shaken up, no one was injured. The bath house of .1. B. Sehoeffel, the theatrical manager, on Singing beach, Manchester, Mass,, was entered by a thief while Mr. Sehoeffel was bathing, and his gold watch, chain and other valuables were taken', also important papers, nil valued at <2.500. * The Illinois Brick Company and the Rrickmakers’ Alliance in Chicago have signed a three-year agreement, by which the employers are entitled to hire union or non-union men as they please, and the sympathetic strike question remains about as it was under the old agreement. Boms Blanehi shot and killed his cousin, Joseph Passino, at Paterson, N. J. He then shot and killed himself. Blanehi blamed Passino for his discharge from a dye works. He lay in wait near . the works and shot Passino as the latter’s two little daughters were running to meet him. Tid Fisher, an outlaw who was arrested at Southwest City, Mo., on a charge of highway robltcry, resented being again _ taken In custody and shot, and mortally wounded Itiehard Jarrett, sheriff of McDonald County. Young Fisher escaped, but was surrounded by a posse of citizens and was riddled with bullets. In all Alaska and the British Yukon there has lieeu discovered prolialily no treasure-hole so sensationally rich .na .the little stretch of from 1.200 to 1,500 feet of ground along the shore of Bering Sea, fifty-five miles below NOine, and known as the Topkuk diggings. Front this strip of ground there was taken from May 1 to June 10 about $8tM),000 worth of virgin gold. Caroline K. Keyes pleaded guilty in the Mnrylobone police court in Loudon to the charge of stealing a gold watch, ti bracelet, hair brush and articles of clothing the aggregate value of £22 from rooms in Norfolk Mansions Hotel, where she had been staying. Miss Keyes said she was an American and hail come to London to attend the world’s Christian Kndcavor convention as a delegate from a church in Minnesota. Recent developments indicate that Rev. T. 11. James, the Methodist minister who went to England two mouths ago from Safina. Kan., to secure an inheritance of $20,000,01H), with which lie agreed to endow several American institutions, and who dropped out of sight while he was gone, was drugged as soon as he reached Liverpool. Ilis friends believe that other heirs did it in order to keep him from getting the principal part of the estate. His present condition indicates that his system has been saturated with some drug, from which he is still suffering. Tito standing of the clubs in the National League is as follows; W. L. \V. L Brooklyn ...45 25 Cincinnati ...55 57 Pittsburg ...40 53 St.- L0ui5....51 50 Chicago ....57 54 Boston 51 38 Philadelphia 57 51 New Y0rk...24 45 Following is the standing in the Aiuer lean League: W. L. W. L. Chicago ....44 30 Detroit 55 42 Indianapolis 40 52 Kansas City.3o 45 Milwaukee ..45 55 Minneapolis. 55 41 Cleveland ...50 55 Buffalo 51 45 Jesse P. KcinncU, expert telegrapher, was arrested while taking off a message in cipher code on the top floor, of the union station at St. Louis. Reiuach is accused of complicity in a shrewd scheme bjb which the American and other express companies have been robbed during the last month. Forged telegraph money orders have been cashed at various offices of the several companies in the Puited Status on the receipt of false telegrams appearing to have been sent from the main offices. A few hours before Uoi'uaeh’s arrest O. P. Dillon had been captured in Chicago and had made a confession implicating Kcin/ich.