Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 November 1900 — WEEK’S NEWS RECORD [ARTICLE]

WEEK’S NEWS RECORD

James A. Norton, who was one of the jurymen iu the Youtsey trial, was burned to death in the jail at Sadieville, Ky., iu w hich he had been put on the charge of drunkenness. Lt is supposed bed clothes i ,night fire and ignited the building? - A student at the University at Dorpiit, Russia, bak been sentenced to imprisontuviit for a term of twu years lor. having billed a fellow-student in a duel’ a year ago. The government has virtually broken up the German dueling association at Jhat university. i Walter Graves, a messenger boy for the wholesale jewelry firm of George K. 31arringtoii A Co., was held up iu Chicago by a negro and robbed of a satchel containing jewelry valued at SSOO. The articles belonged to patrons of the house and were being delivered. A head end collision of Baltimore and Ohio freights Nos. 23 and 24 occurred at Pelieville, Ohio. Conductor John Oatman and Engineer Henry Hall of No 23 were killed. A misunderstanding of orders is responsible for the trouble. A number of Tars were smashed a nil t raffle delayed. At Marietta, Ohio, Marshal Dye cap tured three suspicious look#? men. searched valuable piTpers and counterfeit money were found on them. Within fifteen minutes after being put in jail they sawed their way out by-cut—-ting through the door and started ncrostr the hills. Because he believed his wife had thrown him over for a handsome young minister, Joseph Freitag killed her in Brooklyn, N. Y., shot her pet dog and fatally wounded himself. Resentment bad died out of the heart of the husband after the fatal shots bad been ’ fired, for the dead wife was found Tiosperi in his arms.' The long strike of the cigarmtikers, which started nine months ago, in Kerbs, Wertheim & Schiffer’s factories in New York, and involved twelve other large firms, has been, declared at an end. The cigarmakers, 1,500 in number, Have declared their strikes off unconditionally and have returned to work on the old terms 11 gainst which They struck. Fire •started in the candy factory of Kreicher & Co. in Albany, N. Y., and before the firemen could get water on the blaze the immense building, running through a block, was a mass of flames. Next door, in Beaver street, was the Press-Kniekerbocker-Express. So rapid Jy did the flames spread that the employes of the building had to run for their lives. Total loss, $135,000.