Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1901 — WEEK’S NEWS RECORD [ARTICLE]

WEEK’S NEWS RECORD

ih : . Dr. W. B. Swan of the Kansas Board ' Of Health reports 2(17 cases of smallpox F® the State. “’Hie type of the disease 'is more severe than it was last winter," Itho doctor says, “and I think there will ; roe a considerably larger number of fa- | realities.” ■' W. Horace Wright, journalist, lawyer {■nd leader among the forces of the Roylalist party in Hawaii, committed suicide [by taking carbolic acid, He was found ■Mead one morning in his editorial chair I an the office of the Independent, of which ■' the was associate editor. K At the first annual meeting of the New [York Zoological Society Director Horn* jftday stated that during his recent west tern trip to secure animals for the garden la specimen of the skin of what proved Ito be an entirely new species of moun|tain sheep was sent to him from Dawaou |City. I Five persons were seriously hurt in a |rjcbHisi<m at the junction of the Lehigh ■Valley and Long Branch railroads at ' (Perth Amboy, N. J., between an engine •of the I/thigh Valley, running light, and |a Long Branch train. The engineers of {both locomotives attempted to make the (crossing at the same time. ' The body of Charles A. Shedd, the 18-ijear-old son of William J. Shedd of Chi ;cago, general manager of the Knickerbocker Ice Company, was discovered in ta corner of the football green in Washington Park, A bullet bole was over his (right eye and his right hand was clutchdng a half-emptied revolver. No cause for the suicide is known. " The Paris Figaro in a special dispatch . describes a voyage of two hours in the “ .submarine boat Morse during the trials |«t Cherbourg. “In less than two minutes," says the correspondent, “the ves ~ eel reached a depth of eighteen ft-yr, ; when she performed her evolutions with ease and perfect safety. The problem of the supply of air has been solved •satisfactorily and the crew were able to Temaiu submerged for sixteen hours with out fatigue of the lungs." >' From Union Springs, Ala., it is learned that N. H. Frazer, tax collector of Bulloch County, has received a letter dated Memphis, from men claiming to have •kidnaped Frazer’s IR-ycar-obl soti, Bass, in Atlanta. They demand a ransom. The letter contained young Frazer’s alleged signature as proof of the claim. Frazer was a student in the Technological school at Atlanta and it is learned has not been seen there in several days. The kidnapers asserted they were on their way to Kansas City, whence further negotiations would be conducted. At Standing Rock Indian agency. near Yankton. S. D., an Indian found a tank of gasoline on the bank of the Missouri river ami. supposing it to be kerosene, I took It home for burning in lamps. There I being more of it than he needed for his own use, lie passed it around among bis | red friends. At the time the accident f occurred an Indian had called for some ond to ascertain how much there was in the tank a lighted match was held down Jnto it. The explosion which followed ; resulted in the death of eight of the nine persons who were in the house and the cremation of their bodies in the fire Which resulted ami entirely consumed [the building.