Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1900 — SUMMARY OF NEWS. [ARTICLE]

SUMMARY OF NEWS.

' -Dunaraut, Kan., was partially destroyed by lire. The business portion is a total -'loss, including Richardson's store and hotel, ■ the postothee building, thu e resideugeft, steam laundry, grist mill, Youricy’s manufacturing plant, and cuntrnciOTs' ■shop ami Oil ** ■■_ ’ ' The Jiitesr iishitrpr <-raft-t« Uuuxnorlhrru Labrador report that nothing has Keen seen of the'iV'eary relief steamer ,Wiu4vturd. The winter wasonlms already begun to set in and the whole region will sbon be frozen up, making it next to iinpossible for the \\ indward to get south this year. 'During the season just closed tllirjyXour, sv-itliug sehvQuera took IbAIOO skills in Hering Sea, which is S,t)O<l. less .1 hull taken by twenty five schooners last year. The spring schooners took 111,517 skills _4Mutlm_£imL. .brhiging.. the total sos the (eason up to 32.517. Only lilty-fixe ■branded seals were killed in Bering Sea. It is Announced that the First National Bank, Broadway and Wall street, N>’ew York, has been robbed to the extent of about $790,000 through the operations of a trusted employe. The othcers of the bunk t'harge that Charles L, AJvord, the »osi?t&ler, is the’ man who Is responsible for the defalcation. Alvord has disappeared. .Standing silent with her hands in. the attitude of prayer and making no attempt to shield her face from the flames, Mrs. Mary Wilzek, wifi' iff a Berea, <>.. farmer, burned herself to death in the ;i . <:vj4.lvf of « shock of corn in one of her "niisHniid’s cornfields. She hnd been regarded as mildly demented, and was supposed to be constantly watched, John Solleiison, a young Swede, was ’ f.jiot'and kilh-d by hue of she srrrtim I- on guard duty at Fort Hancock, Sandy Hook. The Swede was walking along the beach near the fort and was mistaken sot a private who" had escaped from the tori. The Swede was challenged by the sentinel the second tithe, but refused to halt and was shot down. A riot oeeiirnd in a restaurant nt Hyndman, I'a.. conduced by Willis Caves, a negro. Adam Shroyer, who was sitting at one of the tables, cheered lustily for Bryan and angered some negroes who uere present. Knives and pistols were drawn and an effort made to kill Shroyer and bis young son. A score of shots weti' tired, but no one was hit. Gloster Barnes, colored, was lynched by a moli of bis own people in the northern part of Warren County, Miss. In a drunken fttrj Barnes murdered his wife, (Stubbed and badly wounded a negro who interfered, and engaged in a rifle tight with a while man who attempted to arrest him. A big crowd of negroes took iiiui into a thicket and shot him to death.