Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1900 — SUMMARY OF NEWS. [ARTICLE]

SUMMARY OF NEWS.

An order has b«>n issued by the Presfdent directing that the United States - military post at Valdes, Alaska, be hereafter known ns Port Liscum, in honor of the memory oi* Pol. Etnerson-H. who was killed in the battle of Tien-tain, China. The small Canadian steamer Dominion was burned to the water’s edge While, lying at the Sulphur Springy canal below Sandwich, Ont. The vessel was without a cargo, haviug arrived down from the 800 about two weeks before with a loud of pu ip wood. Prince Iknuthor, son of the King of Cutnzodiit (French lndo-Chinn), who was recently a guest of France, and who disappeared mysteriously, has been found In Brussels. He says he is awaiting the reply of France to grievances presented by his father. It. O. Benjamin, colored, editor of ■the Lexington Standard and attorney for “Tallow Dick’ 1 Combs, who is accused of being accessory to the killing of Goebel, was shot In the back at Lexington, ivy., by Mike Moynahnn, white, while fleeing ” after a registration quarrel. At Hannibal, Mo., the grand jury indicted Mrs. Alice Neeenbcnrr on the charge of murdering her husband, Frank Keeenhener, by giving him an eighth of an ounce of morphine on July 14, which caused his death. The husband carried a small amount of insurance. Three burglars entered the bank at Elkport, lowa, -blew the safe to pieces and secured SI,<HH) in cash and valuable papers. When pursued they fired a dozen - shots at citizens nnd escaped. A big posse and the sheriff pursued the thieves, who made for the Mississippi bottoms. The standing of the clubs in the National League is as follows: W. L. W. L. (Brooklyn ...79 52Chicago 63 70 fPittsburg ...74 57 St. Louis... .59. i 2 (Philadelphia 71 01 Cincinnati .. .59 72 Boston 05 00 New Y0rk...50 7o In the presence of Sir Wilfrid Laurier and a large number of invited guests the cornerstone of the new Quebec bridge over the St. Lawrence was laid. I'his bridge will have one span that will be the biggest in the world. The structure will cost $5,000,000 and is to be finished In 1904. Bank books and papers valued at many thousands of dollars were stolen from the interior of an automobile carriage, where they bad been left by Elbridge T. Gerry while he transacted business in the Becond National Bank in New York. The papers were subsequently found iu the back room of a saloon.

An attempt wns made to blow up the Immense dam of the Tampa, Fla., Electric Company, six miles from the city. ,The unexploded dynamite was found the next morning. This work was built at a cost of $300,000, nnd was destroyed by unknown persons two years ago. It backs water over a large territory. The United States Circuit Court of 'Appeals in San Francisco has rendered a decision quashing the indictments against ten men who were arrested nt ,Coeur d’Alene during the mining strike there last year for interfering with the United States mails. It was shown that the men did not know that the train which they interfered with carried the (United States mails. The men, now Imprisoned at San Quentin, will be released. Williamsport, I‘a., experienced the most disastrous fire iu if* history. Flames bfcke out in the big four-story shoe factory of J. E. Dayton ffc Co., occupying almost an entire block. The factory building, with its great stock of finished shoes and raw material, was entirely destroyed. Other occupants of the building fwho suffered total losses were the ltoyal Braid Company and L. E. Whitman & Co., bookbinders. The loss is $1500,000. Several firemen were hurt by the falling of a portion of the building.