Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1900 — WEEK’S NEWS RECORD [ARTICLE]

WEEK’S NEWS RECORD

A detachment of twenty men of the Twenty -fourth regiment, while engaged in repairing telegraph wires, at a point near San .low, Nuevo Eeija province, S&le de Luzon, Philippines, were set upon ■by 200 rebels and were overpowered and .scattered. Tile bark Merom of San Francisco, ■wind by the Alaska Packers’ Association, was driven ashore and totally wrecked on Kodiak Island in a gale.., A Bailor of the crew known as “Dutch BUI remained on the vessel and went down .■with her. • r /Rhe torpedo boat Dahlgren lies high and dry on the mud fiats at the south end of Newport, 'll. 1, harbor. The torpedo boat T. A. M. Craven is in her slip at the torpedo station with ten feet of her ■bow bent to port nt right angles. The two boats collided in a gale. Advices from Dawson say that steamers bring word that the United States telegraph system in the Yukon country will be completed from Nome to Tanana toy (Thristmas. The line from Dawson northward to Eagle on the American side ■wifi be concluded a month hence. The St. Louis police are looking for a man who is known only as / “Jack, the oil thrower.” A year ago he Turned scores of women’s dresses by squirting oil on them, apparently from a syringe. His first victim this season is Mrs. Ida Schwartz, whose tan coat was ruined. Gov. Beckham of Kentucky has approved the only election bill passed during the extra session. The bill goes into effect immediately. The law re|M*als no part of the Gobel law, but provides severe penalties for violation of election laws and otherwise throws safeguards around the voter. John Bruce ran a locomotive into a flame-sheeted shed of the American Cereal Company's plant at Chicago, whore Ills conductor, Edward Kitchen, coupled the engine to five cars loaded with oatmeal. A minute later the cars, with fluming roofs, were pulled out into the open, where they were saved by firemen. An explosion of rubbet cement in the shoe factory of Witchell Sons' Company, in Detroit, resulted in the death of one person and injury of eight others, four of whom were girls. The fire spread ■with such rapidity that the employes were emnpelled to jump from the upper stories. The building was completely gutted and will doubtless be a tidal loss. George C. Beveridge, a resident of Sau Francisco And one of the owners of the famous Dolores mine of Mexico, brings news of a horrible tragedy enacted in the vicinity of his mine. A hand some young girl was abducted from her home by a man who was enamored of her and kept a dose prisoner in a cave for three months. During that time ten men were killed because of her. Tempted by the knowledge that thousands of dollars were within his grasp and fortified by an intimate acquaintance with postoffice methods, some one robbed the United States mail of the entire re-ceipts-for the day of station IL the “second general postofficc,” at Forty-fourth Street and Lexington avenue. New York. Such an occurrence is unprecedented in the annals of New York. Subordinate officials place the loss at from $15,000 to $40,090.