Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 December 1900 — WEEK’S NEWS RECORD [ARTICLE]

WEEK’S NEWS RECORD

Andrew Doig, n stonecutter, was arrested in Cleveland upon the charge-of having murdered Mrs. Mollie Knapp, whose mutilated body was found in her apartments. Doig admitted that he assaulted the woman, and alleged that she had robbed him. At Jacksonville, Oregon, O. W. Traynor shot and killed J. Harden brook and then killed himself, llardenbrook was engaged to he married to Miss Sarah h. Beeson, a sister of Mrs. Traynor, ''but Traynor objected to the match and it is said had threatened llardenhrogk's lifo f In a 10-niile motor paced race on the indoor bicycle track at the Velodrome, Los Angeles, Cal., (Jus Lawson defeated John Nelson, the middle distance champion. Lawson won by a quarter of a mile, and incidentally lowered the world’s record by thirty-seven seconds, bis time being 25:12. A difficulty has arisen between Germany and Turkey. The Ottoman government objects to Germany Using l'n c Sau Island, in the ltcd Sea, ns a coaling station nnd wishes to establish there a Turkish depot accessible to all the powers. Germany, however, insists that she will not abandon the island. New proof of the,probable truth of Andrew Carnegie's statement- that John D. Rockefeller is the richest ntan in the world was given in the offer of SBOO a share for 500 shares of Standard Oil stock. The holdings of Air. Rockefeller in that company must be worth approximately $200,000,000. The Treasury 1 tepaHment has decided to admit the lace workers and their families who were brought to this country by Dr. J. A. Dowie, the “divine healer" and founder of Zion City, 711, 1o teach Others the art of lace making. This is a reversal of the action of the Philadelphia immigration officials. The lifeless body of \V. 11. Fullhart, an eccentric and well-to-do ranchman near Anselmo, Neb., was fouind on the prairie near there by the sheriff. Fullhart had been murdered, his skull being crushed by some blunt instrument. Fullhart lived alone, except, for a hired man, and this ntan is missing. Dr. 11. A. Hamilton, a prominent physician of Marysville, lowa, was shot dead by an assassin. Alfred Aim, who had accused the doctor of rousing the separation of Aim and his wife, is under nrrest on the charge of tiring the fatal shot. No one saw the shot fired and the physician died without making any statement. A policeman found a starving woman with her 18-months-oM starving girl baby in Broadway, New York. Tlie clothing of both was saturated with rain and the woman was wandering aimlessly about in a half-dazed condition. She is Claudia Staples of Omaha, in search of her hits band, who, she says, deserted her. Thomas A. Edison, Jr., states that he has authorized lawyers to institute di voreo proceedings against his wife of one year and seven mouths, lie said that she left him seven months ago and has sinee declined to either live with him or begin divorce proceedings. Before her marriage Mis. Edison was Miss Tuoliy of Chicago. Mrs. Natalie Bayard Brown of Newport, It. 1., guardian of her infant sou. John Nicholas Brown, has filed an inventory of the estate left to him by liis father, showing it to be worth $1,943.690.31; The estate coming to the child from his uncle, the late Harold Brown, will nearly equal the amount of property he receives from his father. Solitary confinement and degradation to the ranks was the severe punishment ordered for three officers and one cadet of the United States Military Academy at W est Point, N, Y., after a recent breach of discipline. The officers are the most popular men in the first class, and the action of the authorities is strongly re seated by the mass of students. The Indiana Supreme Court has rendered a decision that the low of 1899 prohibiting the piping of natural gas outside of . the State of Indiana is unconstitutional. The decision was rendered on an appeal from Marion, I ml, in which the manufacturers of the State sought to shut off the supply of gas now being piped to Chicago and Ohio cities.