Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1901 — SUMMARY OF NEWS. [ARTICLE]

SUMMARY OF NEWS.

Masked highwaymen invaded tln* saloon of Nicholas Michiods, 235(5 South Canal street, Chicago, 1, tally assaulted the proprietor nild his wife, secured booty worth $2,500, and then looked the plair in the ice box. The robbers, three in number, escaped. The officials of the Northern Steamship Company held a meeting in St. l’aul, at which it was definitely decided to run the two large steamers of the line, the Northland and Northwest, between Chicago and Duluth, instead of between Buffalo and Duluth us* heretofore. Canal Dover. Mrs. 'Grim left home about ' two months ngo and her husband tried t > find her, but was unsuccessful. A month ago he received word from Steubenville that his wife had' jumped into the river and been drowned. Mrs. Grim states that she has boon living with relatives near Cincinnati. The Britannia group of copper mines has been consolidated into the Britannia syndicate, limited, by the acquirement of the undivided three-tenths interest 'of Leopold Boscowltz, the price paid for this interest being $1!M>,000. The property is located on Howe sound, about thirty miles from Vancouver. Charles A. Hinckley, alias It. Morris, lured across the Canadian line by Bert Miller and others, is now in jail in Conconully, Wash., on charge of stealing $07,000 from the West Side Bank, New York, in 1884, of which bank hi* had been tin* teller. He hail been living at Columbia, B. 0., and the haul; offered a reward of SIO,OOO for his arrest. The foreign have definitely decided to demand the imposition of the death penalty upon all twelve of the Chineso officials name* in the list snbmitteil, including those who are dead, on account of the moral effect upon the Chinese. The sentence on the living must be inflicted except in the cases of Prince Tuan and Duke Lnn, which the Emperor may commute to banishment to Turkestan. Crying out that drugs were the agents of the devil, n half-dozen women followers of Dowie adopted the tactics of Mrs. Carrie Nation and wrecked a number of drug stores on tin* West Side m Chicago. In some instances there were hand-to-hand fights with the druggists.' Armed as they were,with pitchforks, umbrellas and canes, the women came out the victors in nearly every encounter, and succeeded in destroying property wherever they went. Itival factions of the colored Baptist Church in Osage City, Kan., are at war, and as a result a partly finished church is in ruins. Some time ago some of the members left the church and immediately started to build another place of worship. This did not suit the other members, and with axes and hatchets they demolished the building. The carpenters arrived while the work of destruction was going on and many of the negroes were seriously hurt.