Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1900 — SUMMARY OF NEWS. [ARTICLE]

SUMMARY OF NEWS.

Gen. Randallhas rcevivcd nuthoriiy to send back the indigent sick and destitute front the Nome gold district nt the expense’ of the Government. He has r’eeelved over 3,000 applications for passage and there are still several thousand who are penniless. ’ 'Che steamer Rprctflar eolTiiled’Avllh the steamer Denver off Col Chester light, in Lake Erie. The. Spcculax. went dowa.it few minutes after the crash. Mo4t of her crew succeeded in getting into (he lift!boat, while five clung to the rigging, and all were picked up by the steamer Marltana. Former Justice of the Peace Joseph Wilkerson, the alleged leader of the mob that lynched the three Humphreys in Henderson County, Texas, in May, 1881), and J. A. Johns, Sain Hall and John F. Iladdis, the remaining defendants, pleaded guilty to murder in the first degree and each received a life sentence in the penitentiary. Thomas Partridge, a Penfield, N. Y., farmer, has taken the first steps in an action for SIO,OOO damages aguinst Mrs. 'Russell Terrill, a neighbor. The suit grows out of the death of little Mary 'Partridge, who, according to the father’s statement, was so terrified by a false face worn by Mrs. Terrill that she suffered a nervous shock which caused her death. An electric ear on the Cleveland and Chagrin Falls suburban line was wrecked near Chagrin Falls, Ohio, the crew and twelve passengers being cut and badly bruised. Five persons were seriously injured. The accident was caused by a broken brake rod. The car jumped the track on a sharp curve while Hunting at h high rate of speed. The trucks broke and the car plunged over on its side. In Braddock, Pa., fire destroyed J. C. Bchmesinger’s photograph gallery, the BF*ir*t Christian Churi-li. the millinery Store of Maggie Field. Mrs. Annie YleFeeley's grocery, Braddock Upholstering Company’s store, William Zeolplitz’s gents' furnishing store. Rodgers’ lumber yard and the Braddock Coal and Supply Company building. The loss is with small insurance. Origin supposed to be incendiary. The standing of the clubs in the National League is ns follows: W. L. W. L Brooklyn ...58 35 Boston 47 49 J’ittsbnrg ...54 44 Cincinnati ...45 52 - Phi'.adelphia—4B-47 St. Louis. . . .43 51 Chicago ....48 48 New Y0rk...38 55 Following is the standing in the Amerjean League: W. L. W. L Chicago . . .<>4 40 Kansas City.ss 5(1 itmlianapolia st‘> 48 Cleveland .. .51 54 (Milwaukee ..58 52 Buffalo 48 02 .Detroit 57 52 Minneapolis. 43 08 Sheriff Ferguson has rounded up a gang of supposed counterfeiters near |Sodus, Mich. The officer arrested Clyde Churcltill, whom he caught in the act of passing worthless money. On Churchill's statement Sheriff Ferguson also arrested Richard anil Joseph Brant. He then .unearthed the workshop of the alleged Counterfeiters, which he discovered to be tin n cave near Churchill's home. In the cave he found molds and all the apparatus used in the manufacture of bogus coin. The prisoners had a hearing before United States Commissioner O'Hara and were remanded to jail in default of $2,000 bail each.