Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1900 — SUMMARY OF NEWS. [ARTICLE]

SUMMARY OF NEWS.

(, The Rev. Abram L. Davis asks a divorce from his wife Jane because, among 1 Other reasons, she does not dress well 1 enough. He was pastor of the Youngstown, Ohio, Disciple Church until Inst January, when, he says, his wife left him and this caused him to lose his pastorate. Miss Delia Neibei, 25 years old, whose Jiome Is iu Dos tori a, Ohio, twice attempted to commit suicide iu Chicago by shoot* ing ttoraelf jn the breast witfajj. revolver. The young woman is in the hospital, where her chances for recovery are very slight. Family troubles mude her de spondent. A riot occurred at the works of the Bessemer Coal and Coke Company at, ;Latrob>, I’n. Three deputy sheriffs were injured and ns a result the borough prison is' full of strikers. A mob of 50Q excited miners. who are striking, surrounded tiie works. One of the strikers was arrested and that started the riot. Fred T. Gilmore of Baxter, lowa,, can give thanks that be is a farmer with all the bucolic earmarks, for the rural ."(Star* act eristics saved him s23' in money and » $11,2-7 in eertitied cheeks, payable to bearer. Two thugs were beating him over the head with revolver* in an alley in Chicago when the police rescued him. A terrific collision occurred on the Vaudulia at the Cloverland, Ind., station. A west-bound freight and an eastbound coal train collided with great force, telescoping ami overturning both engines, badly wrecking them. Twenty-five ears were also derailed and sent into splinters. The damage will reach more than SIOO,OOO. Edward Roth, a barber of Minneapolis, has tiie unusual distinction of bcsig his own stepson. Sonic time ago he married a Mrs. Schrocli, a widow with a daughter, but tiie couple failed to agree, and the wife secured (a divorce on the grounds of cruelty. Roth is now married to Madeline SchroCh, daughter of his former wife. While Chickntawbut Tribe of Red Men was working tiie chief’s degree on a number of candidates at Beverly, Mass., Fast Sachem Ira T. (.’rackett of Lynn was fatally injured and W F. Rogers, also Of Lynn, was severely burned by an explosion. Hie explosion was caused by the use of a brass lamp to produce calcium effects. Gen. Will L. White, ex-quartermaster general of the State of Michigan, and Gen. Arthur F. Marsh, ex-inspector general, both convicted of complicity in tiie military clothing steal by which the State j was defrauded of $43,000, were by Gov. Filigree on condition that they each pay into the State n fine of SI,OOO a year for five years. Engineer David Fillips and Fireman Cobangh, while running the locomotive of a Baltimore and Ohio express, were suddenly enveloped with flames on their engine near Elm Grove, W. Yn., and so badly burned that they eouhl not continue f their run. Escaping gas from a pii>e line that passes under the tracks at that point ■ ignited from the fire box of the engine. The Pacific Cable Company has accepted in behalf of tile governments of Great Britain, New South Wales, Queensland find New Zealand the bid of the Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company to make and lav cable frmn Vancouver to Queensland and New Zealand, via Fanning, Fiji and Norfolk Islands, for £1,705,000, the work to lie finished at the end of 1002. k One of the most destructive fires that ever visited Evnnsvilfe, Ind., took place the other morning. As a result one life was lost, several persons were injured, and the large structural iron works of George L. Mesker A (V, on First street, ami Loewenthul’s commission house were totally destroyed, with n loss of $106,000, while other buildings were damnged. The entire loss from the fire will reach SIIO,OOO. The firemen killed i and injured were caught by a falling Syr brick wall. The fire is thought to have originated in the molding department of the iron works.