Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1901 — SUMMARY OF NEWS. [ARTICLE]

SUMMARY OF NEWS.

After waiting for eighteen years thnt he might acciunuhjte a fortune. Miss Kate McNulty was married to John Hoy at Pittston, Pa. After the couple had become engaged eighteen yearn ago Hoy I went West and by hard work managed to make a fortune. It is estimated that SO,(WX) acres of cotton will have to be replanted in Ten | nessee. The first planting on plantation* in the delta unprotected by Hie levee is valueless on account of the overflow, an I , on many farms in the highlands seed ma , turity was precluded by rain and cold. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Yerkes has held that express receipts for , goods and merchandise to he transported from the United States to 8 foreign conn- j try are not exempt from tax under de- j cisions of the United States Supreme; Court in the matter of export "bills ot lading. (iov. Deitrich of Nebraska has grant ed an unconditional pardon to Henry Bolin, former City Treasurer of Omaha, and set the nged prisoner at liberty. Bolin was convicted five ydtra ago of embezzling about SI(K>,(BH) of city funds. For this offense lie rpceivqd a 19-j’fiir sentence. Mrs. Josephine White is in jail 1,1 Brantford, Midi., on a charge of having caused the death of her husband by strychnine poison on April 14. The verdict ,of the coroner's jury said: "That White came to his death by strychnine pornon, which we suspect was administered by liis wife.” In St. Louis Alidas. It. Farmer, a ma- ( chiniat, made a test the other (tight of an invention of his, which he calls the, “twentieth century volcano light.” He went to a vacant lot mid turned on the , light, which shot up clear and white into I the air to a height of 150 feet. The city , was illuminated brightly for a’ mile around. Joseph Myers, employed on the old Oxcar Osborne farm near Akron. Ohio, dug up a kettle containing S3,(MX) in gold. It j was found near the barn. This is the! second discovery of gold nitide on the plate, making a total of more than ?5,000. Osborne’s relatives have always contended that there was $20,000 hidden ' in various places. Mrs. Margaret T. Coleman, who was a servant in the family of Secretary of , State Seward, when the attempt was made to assassinate him the same evening that J. Wilkes Booth Xhot President | Lincoln, and who was credited with sav- j ing the Secretary's life, has resigned the . place which she has held in the Treasury | Department in Washington for twentyseven years. Two masked men entered the house of Mrs. Huth Ayers nt Springville, Mich, where she lived alone, bound and gagged her and ransacked the place, taking about *M,OOO in gold and currency. Mrs. Ayers is an eccentric aged woman worth about S4O,(MK), and it is known that she always kept a large amount of money about the house. Officers found S!MI in bills and $15(1 in gold aud silver in n shoe box that had been ojietied. Half of the money had been taken out. A SSO bill ami a S2OO bill were picked tip on the bed. Following is the standing of the clubs in the National League: W. L. W. L. Cincinnati .. 5 3 Boston 3 3 Brooklyn ... 4 3 Pittsburg ... 3- 4 St. Louis.... 5 4 Chicago 4 11 Philadelphia. 5 4 New York... 2 4 Standings in the American League are as .follows: W. L. W. L. Washington. 4 1 Cleveland ... 3 4 Chicago .... 5 2 Philadelphia.. 2 3 1 letroit ..... 5 2 Boston . .... i 1 4 Baltimore ..3 2 Milwaukee ...1 t>