Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1900 — SUMMARY OF NEWS. [ARTICLE]

SUMMARY OF NEWS.

Robert Cunningham, proprietor of the Cunningham Hotel in Kaunas* City, won fined s{>O<) in police court for “mashing." The technical charge against him was disorderly conduct. The tine wn« intended as punishment" for a long series of offenses. Miss Clarissa Blake, daughter of 8. Parkman Blake, a retired banker of Boston, was killed at {few Rochelle, N. Y. She rode a Inrse to a hurdle and was thrown. Her spine was broken at the base bf the brain and she was dead when picked up. Tlie Lake Bennett section of the White Pass and Yukon Railroad is completed, and from now oti through trains will be run from Skugnay to White Horse. The completion of the road will result in the deserting of Bennett City, so long the point for thousands of Klondike™. The whole of the Tintic, Utah, mining district was shaken by an earthquake. The first shock was so severe that the people became thoroughly frightened. The shaft of the Mammoth mine was so thrown out of shape that it was impossible to get the cage below the 1,000-foot level. Dispatches from Tonawanda, N. Y., •ay that a wallet was picked up at the central station in that city, which had evidently been dropped by a passenger, and which, when examined by the police, disclosed two documents which are considered as proof of a second piot to blow up the Welland canal. An explosion of oil and benzine in the engine room of the steamer Alameda at San Francisco, caused by the accidental droning of a lamp, fatally burned Matthew Hamilton, chief boilermaker of the Bisdon iron woaks, and severely injured Alex. Strong, who was assisting him in repairing the vessel's boilers. Hamilton died in great agony several hours after the accident. The standing of the clubs in the National League is us follows: W. L. W. L. Brooklyn ...50 20 Boston 80 41 Philadelphia 44 3(1 Cincinnati ...37 45 Pittsburg ...43 30 St. L0ui5....34 43 Chicago ....40 40 New Y’0rk...31 45 Following is the standing in the American League: W. L. W. L. Chicago ....52 33 Cleveland ...41 44 Indianapolis 45 30 Buffalo 43 47 Milwaukee ..47 43 Kansas City. 43 50 Detroit 43 46 .Minneapolis. 30 52