Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1901 — EVENTS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

EVENTS OF THE WEEK

Tlx' Lemurs. lowa, National Bunk lias closed iIH (lours, and Thomas 1 • ard, viceqiresiden-i and nuutugor of the institution, has Hod, leaving a shortage estimated al from S3<MHA> to $50,000. Ward left a sick \\ if«• and a baby boy a week old. Harold Crowley''of Lookpovt, N. V, son of cx-Congressman Crowley and an employe of the postal department, who was recently arrested ou a charge of misappropriating postal funds, was formally arraigned al San .loan, l’ufto Kiev, and found not guilty. Fred (lay lias confessed at (lutlirie, O. T., to the killing,of Solomon Russell at Ardmore, I. 'l".. April 5. lie says Hus sell -was hoodooing" him and his family. (day put a cordon of bluestone, salt and red pepper around Russell's house after killing him. Sheriff Kd Beeler of Apache County, Arizona, well known throughout the Southwest, wnj ambushed and killed in a tight over a month ago. News of the bloody tight lias just reached l'hoenix. Beeler fell mortally wounded by a volley from behind a stone wall. County Judge Frank Clark was jerked from his buggy he was driving home from Owensboro. Ky., and robbed. Henry Johnson and William Early, two while men. were the robbers. They were caught by Deputy Sheriff Short, identified by Mr. Clark and are now in jail. The Havana constitutional .convention iff a secret session appointed a commit? tee of five delegates to go to Washington t (i see President McKinley rega f ding The Platt amendment. .The eomjnittee consists of Senors Portuondo, Idorente, Bt-i----riel, ('apote and I »i<*go Tuymayo. The New York (\nlrai ear simps at East Hoehester were totally destroyed by fire. The loss will reach over SIOO,OOO, which is offset by an insurance amounting to a little over half. ’The shops have been closed for a week or more on account of a strike of the employes. A lone robber held tip the Cpllinwood pharmacy, in the heart of the fashionable residence section of Toledo, Ohio. Keeping the clerk at bay with a revolver for nearly two hours, he searched the store fi' cash, getting SOO, besides a quantity of tiie more expensive drugs. A derrick ear and a gondola toppled over a bridge over Eighteen Mile creek, eighteen miles from Buffalo, N. Y., on the Nickel Plate Railroad. Six men went with them to the rocky bed eighty feet below. Two were so badly injured that they died within half an hour after the accident.