Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1900 — SUMMARY OF NEWS. [ARTICLE]

SUMMARY OF NEWS.

In Wheeling, W. Vn.. Samuel Woodruff. a mechanic, went haw intoxicated Bad beat his wife brutally. His mother, Mrs. Jane Woodruff, who made her home with her son, was so prostrated by the spectacle, that she died a few minutes later. • Development of iron ore deposits of (W anhingtou will he commenced next year. Iron of high grade has been known [to exist for many years. High official*, of the Great Northern Rniiwny have now (taken up the matter, and rich deposits have been found. s' Louis Lombardo undertook to serenade 'Jose Do l’urlo in Brooklyn. c The girl's father ordered him away, but Lombardo (persisted in singing a love song. Then, .while his sweetheart was at her window, (Lombardo drew a revolver and shot liim self, lie died two hours later. I The national maritime congress, culled jby the Governor of Georgia to assemble ;at Brunswick Jan. 80, is receiving attention throughout fire DriToh. The Congress [will be nonseefiomtl and non-politienl. Its .aims ure to discuss and suggest met boils [for restoring the merchant marine of the (United States to its former prestige. Gustav Kindt, alias French Gus, alias *”;Frank Leroy, alias Felix King, 60 .years old, burglar, safe cracker and a most dangerous criminal, whose face is fntnil liar to the police of all the large cities of [Canada mid the United States, was caught while looting a safe in the whole iSfile liquor store of John T. Sloane in (Philadelphia. A man named 11. Green lias srtrronrdered himself lu tlrc ita era memo, < til., [police, saying that lie and liis brother John murdered a man named Bill Fee in ■at Claire station, Mich., in IS".". lie says they took Feeiry out, knoekeil jgm in the load, cut his throat and roidied ihiin of S6OO. They then cut a hole in ithe ice on the lake and threw the body tin. At Perry, Ok., .Toe Onrrey was nsaaulted and robbed of $75. The two men knocked at his door and when admitted an id they were looking for the home of a Mr. Creighton, I'urre.v informed them he did not know of such a party,* when suddenly the two men sprung on him, choking him into insensibility. They quickly relieved him of $75 and rail from ,the house. After a lively chase they arrested. News lias been received from Brule Indian agency, South Dakota, that Handgo mo Elk, the most dangerous and desperate redskin of the Northwest, beat his squaw in a brutal manner with a neckyoke. It is thought the squaw will die. Elk then seized another Indian woman Bear Bird’s daughter—and scalped her. Then, arming himself with his ritio and other firearms, lie went into the hills, a jghort. distance from his home, and left word that neither friend nor foe must approach him.