Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1901 — SUMMARY OF NEWS. [ARTICLE]

SUMMARY OF NEWS.

Safe blowers entered Frederick Coutu’ •tore at Patricksburg, Ind.; mid blew open the safe. The explosion wrecked the building. About $1,500 iu money and' motes was taken. Then the safe crackers stole a horse and hffitgy mid drove away. Having stolen $16,000 from the Wathena State Bank of Wathena,. Kun., •of which he was cashier, mid discovery being imminent, Jacob F. Harpstn walked into an undertaking establishment, lay ■down upon a coffin and shot himself dead. The Aberdeen apartment building, a three-story brick structure at Garfield boulevard and Aberdeen street, Chicago, was destroyed by tire, causing a loss of about $75,000. One man was burned to death and a number of others experienced narrow escapes. / A riot occurred at Corbin, Ky., as a result of the shooting Of .James Shotwell by Rollie White and several persons were killed and injured. The trouble grew out of the fact that White had been paying attention to Shotwell’s daughter against the will of the hitter.

Theodore Boellger, a Chicago musician, 71 years old. stepped from a South Side L train, missed the station platform and fell to the ground below, u distance of twenty-five feet. His nose was broken, his body was seventy bruised and he sustained internal injuries.* Scotland yard officials have been cabled to arrest in Liverpool as be steps from the steamer the defaulting confidential clerk of a large wholesale house in Walker street. New York, who is said to have absconded with $50,000 of the firm’s funds mfd to have embezzled $200,000 lie fore he was even suspected. The little town of McGill. Ohio, is aroused over a horrible outrage upon a boy. His stepfather, John Burrus,, is under arrest. Burrus is charged with whipping the child until great black welts appeared on his body and then setting the baby on a hot stove and holding it there nntil its body was horribly burned. A company is being formed to operate lines of ice-crushing stemnshi|is bet ween Duluth and Swedish. Norwegian and Itussian points. Contracts for the ships for that part of the route between Quebec and North Sea ports will be let in Europe at once and for those to ply between Duluth and Parry Sound on the lakes will come later. A masked robber at midnight surprised G. C. Shoemaker, cashier of the Greenwood County Bank at Severy, Kan., as hi* was working on his books and with a revolver ordered him to open the safe. When the robber learned that the safe had a time lock he bound and gagged the cashier and attempted to drill the combination. He was unsuccessful, aud finally made his escape after robbing Shoemaker of what little money he carried.