Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1900 — EVENTS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

EVENTS OF THE WEEK

|® August uh Ford Harvey, associate edi|h< tor of the insurance Review aud the B'Chicago Indei>eud«.*iiL a im-mbcr of the Loyal Legion mid one <>f the moat widely j? known men in insurance circles in the \V<--<t. Is dead nt his home in Kirkwood, aged 70 res la . . le'.. It is rumored that the Japanese gained ' u great victory over the Boxers and I hiK nese troops from Pei-Tsang and Hb-Ni gfe -.Wii ai 'Teh-Chou. The story *ajs tlutl 1/0.1 <•;. ■. • ■ 1,.:'.. I. ill- Hu-li; t- I‘ritn-e Tuan, and that all the Chinese ■ wire driven back into Chee Lee. Charles I i.‘B:>rn< s, nlias Joliiw H. Nel If’' #Oll. the alleged Kentucky train robin-". B? who eta-aped from ten defectives in St, Kt Louis recently, is reported through polite E-- chai.nels to have been located lit I her s?. Trail, British Columbia. The clew is ?;T Mid to have been furnished by Mrs, Barms. doiilde frag-dy is rep in nd front BeH■ . leu, N. M. David Er Baca made remarks gt casting reflections upon the cliaiacier j>lT n woman friend of Melquiades Baca. ThO f men met. Two six-shooters were raised f 5 Hiiiinltanconsl.v. Three shots front’ each I 1 weapon rang out. and both ihe Bacas fell ’• mortally wounded. ESy Professional safe-blowers cracked the aafe in the postottfee at St. Joseph, J Mich., and secured $5,099. The thieves B entered the building from tin- second story of n house in the rear. They then cut through the steel Ceiling.of the postR office, which occupied the first floor of the building, ami blew the safe. 8.. The body of Ida Corrigan, 15 years y“~ old, was found limit:ng in tin- lake near where she vi as drowned. <»n July 7 the schooner yacht Idler capsized off the port -• of-develaml dtuiug .< hea-vy squall, and E five women and girls nnl one baby of.the . families of John and James Corrigan. _ the wealthy vessel owners, were drown- “ t 4 "' • The buildings ami machinery of the Weldon mine, one of the richest silver producers in la-adv ille. Colo., were bnrnf ed. The money loss is sc<>.<hiu. The 1 mine engiiim-r staved heroically at his | post until nearly nil the men in the mine had bm-n hoisted from below; the rest * made their'Way out through other eonF tignous mines. Capt. Platt' B. Walker of St. Paul. . Minn., is still a prisoner of war. having f been placed upon- parole by the I nion r- Soldiers shortly before the close of the war, from which be was never released. He was imprisoned in Fort Smiling, from which place he wits paroled, but he has received no further attention from the War Depart tiu-nt. A .daring robbery occurred at Larimore, t N. 1).. just before the "flyer)’ pulled in from the west. Two masked .men entered the Great Northern express office and i- -held up Agent Harry Nelson. They took X “shot ut hiffl.and by the tight—-nf mutches am! at the point of tt gun i-mn- || pelled him to open the safe. They sc Eg cured about $95. after which they disap- |? poured, presumably gang out on the g morning train. Some think the robbers J: tire loenl parti,-s; others that they are I’ traveling outlaws. The standing of the clubs in the NaF- lionnl League is as follows: \V. L. W. L. s' ; < Brooklyn ...GO Its Chicago 50 52 Pittsburg ...55 47 Cincinnati ...IS 53 Philadelphia 51 19 St. Louis.. .47 53 Boston 50 50 New Y0rk...40 59 K Following is the standing in the Amer g* ican League: 1 W. L. W L |L Chicago ....<’>7 43 Detroit 57 50 K Milwaukee .Jit 52. Cleveland ...51 Hi * Indianapolis c>2 51 Buffalo 52 UG j Kansas City.s'j 57 Minneapolis. 45 73 F A’ehtirch painter saved his life ut La i? ■ Salle, 111., by hanging with his teeth t<> a rope suspended ICO feet in midair. He y was engaged in painting the spires of St: Hyneinth's Polish Cntholir Church ami fc while standing on a small pint form sup &' .ported by ropes from life steeple he |B/overbalanced and fell backward into tin Vk air. One of the ropes was dangling be low tin- board and hi- managed to grasp r this with his teeth ns he fell. Here he hung for several seconds, until able to K grasp the ropes ami climb back to safety, k-, Ho descended from the steeple immedi iitcly, mid on reaching the ground faint Od. After being taken to hi- home it t was' 1 found that he had received severe ? internal injuries.