Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1900 — WEEK’S NEWS RECORD [ARTICLE]

WEEK’S NEWS RECORD

Th* will of David Sinton was probate d in Cincinnati. The estate is valued at $15,000,000 to $20,000,000, and Mrs. Charles I'. Taft, the only heir, is made executrix without bond. Sinton had many bequests in his will, but paid them all before be died. ~'Pottawatomie Indians claim many miles of lake front in Chicago, which is valued by County Clerk Knopf at $15,000,000. The claim is made that, the land never having been surveyed or taxed, it is the original property of the first squitters, the Indians. Teresa Wenger, the 7-year-old daughter of Frank Weeger, a Chicago saloonkeeper. was burned to death. In company with her companions, the child started tt bonfire In the back yard of her home and merriiy skipped about the blaze. Suddenly her dress caught tire. Two young Americans’, students at the University at Eiehstadt, who were in Rome attending a congress of university men, visited the Catacombs with their friends and strayed away and disappeared. Their absence was remarked only upon the return of the party to the hotel. Prof. Fotergill, who lias been giving ■balloon ascensions and parachute jumps at the Michigan City. Ind., street fair, wjtije making an ascension', caught on one of the guy ropes, which tore the parachute. He dropped 200 feel and lit on <i small brick building. He was picked up unconscious. While Walker F, Cutting of Bddwinsadl h\ Ala ss.t wa sHt-aufckugo.lL the .pLlUfonu of a railroad car bis hat blew off. In attempting to recover it lie fell from the train Win u the engine went back to recover the bodj of ill.- supposed dead man Cutting was discovered walking into Baldwinsville along the track. He was nut in theleast seriously injured. Turkey evidently intends to be prepared to resist any attempt which may be made by foreign governments to collect indemnities by force. Consul General C. M. Dickinson at Constantinople has cabled to tlic State Department announcing that tile sublime porte has awarded a contract for the construction of two torpedo boats to a shipbuilding firm.. at Genoa. The standing of the clubs in the National League is ns follows: W L W. I, Brooklyn ...65 11 Boston 52 50 I’ittsbiirg ...62 48 Cincinnati ...50 5!) Philadelphia 55 52 St. Louis.... I'3 58 Chicago ....54 56 New Y0rk...45 (12 Following is the standing in the American League: W. L. W. L. Chicago ....74 4G Kansas City.GO (14 Milwaukee ..69 55 Cleveland ...57 65 Indianapolis- (I'i 56 Buffalo . ... .5(1 70 Detroit 65 G 1 Minimapoli-.. 4.8 78