Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 November 1900 — EVENTS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

EVENTS OF THE WEEK

A blanket mortgage covering all the lands owned by the Hamburg-American Packet Company in Hoboken,- N. J., was tiled in the office of the county registrar. The mortgage is in favor of the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York uud is for $ 1,000,000. \\\ P. Feagle of Fort Smith, Ark., an expert in cotton and a former member of the- Arka n> as —1 .t-gt-i a f u-ie, — was -found dead in liis room at the South End Hotel in East St. Louis. A box of morphine pills and an empty laudanum bottle seemed to indicate that he had committed stii Cldc. , Gov. Murphy of Arizona has commuted to four years tin* sentence of John Echols, who has served three years of a ten years’ sentence for stage robbery. King V sscry. a noted criminal, says he was the guiky party, and adroitly arranged Ills plans so that suspicion fell oil Echols. . r — — A. 11. McGregor, a farmer residing two miles front Geneva. Ohio, was agreeably surprised when he was notified that he had suddenly become a millionaire, lie received word that the will of his brother, It. McGregor, places him in possession of all his property in Cleveland and vicinity, which is estimated at $1 ,009,000. A meeting of ail the world's fair committees was held at the Mercantile Club in St. Louis. About 1150 of the leading citizens were present, and more than $200,000 was subscribed on tile floor and upward of 100 present agreed to devote half of each day to the immediate completion of tile local subscription fund. State regulation of the sale of cigar ettes has been declared by the Failed States. Sup re me Court to be valid and no infringement of the right of Congress to control interstate commerce. The decision was handed down in the ease of William It. Austin vs. the State of Tennessee, and sustained the judgment of the Tennessee Supreme Court upholding tile validity of the statute now in force in that Sttite. The Russian government will on Jail. 1 put n duty of SO cents a bar rollon flour for Siberia. The object is to monopolize the rapidly growing trade for the Black Sea millers. It will be a hard blow to the Pacific coast millers, who have been building up u big trade through Vladivos-tw-k with Siberia. The completion of the Traussiberian line will, it is feared, cut off most of tlie Transpacific trade with Russian ports.