Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1901 — EVENTS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

EVENTS OF THE WEEK

Eight-year-old Esther Bishop, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Bishop, was allowed to die in agony at Hamilton, 0., of burns from a gasoline explosion while her parents sang and prayed at her bedside, according to the rites of Christian Science. William Austin, of Hill City. S. D., sent orders to Chicago commission houses to sell corn for him, but his letter aroused suspicion, and discovery was made that his bank account is short. Had the'sales been made Austin would have cleared $35,000. The steamship Senator, at Port Town send, reports that the .steamship < luii-L. > I). Lane, on her way from Nome to Seattle with 175 passengers, went ashen during a dense fog oa the west bank of Nunivitk Island. She is a total' wreck. Her passengers and crew were saved. George McCabe, 4(1 years of age, committed suicide by cutting his throat. Members of the man's family say that McCabe was driven to desperation by the jeers of his fellow workmen nt the Worthington Hydraulic Works in Brooklyn, where a strike has been in progress, and he had continued at work. Although he wrapped himself in the German flag and claimed the protection of the Kaiser's ensign, Col. Abel Murillo was forcibly removed from a HamburgAmerican liner at Cartagena, Colombia, ami placed under arrest, despite the formal protests of the captain of the vessel, as well as those of the German vice consul at Cartagena. Four masked men l.eld up the New York limited express train on tihe Baltimore and Ohio road, near Edgemore. Ind.; of CBTi agct, and dynamited the mail car, having inadvertently cut off the express ear, which they designed to rob. Twenty shots were tired, but no one was hurt. The robbers escaped in the darkness. Lyman C. Smith, the millionaire typewriter manufacturer, intends to enter the great lakes freight carrying business, an 1 as the first step in this line he says he has decided to let contracts for the construction of ten large lake freight steamers to be ready for business next May. The boats will Is* run between Buffalo and Ihihrth in the grain and ore trade. When the turnkey entered the county jail in Toledo, Ohio, with the prisoners' breakfast the other morning he was hell up at the muzzle of two revolvers and locked in a cell. John Brown, alias ‘‘Topeka Joe,” Thomas Keegan and James Stewart, all held for robbery of the West Toledo postotllce, and David Morgan, a local prisoner, then marched out of jail. John Stewart, who says he is a cousin of the late A. T. Stewart, filed a complaint in the Supreme Court of New York in a suit he has brought to recover a share of the estate of the late millionaire. It is charged in the complaint that the will of Alexander T. Stewart which was admitted to probate was not his last will and testament and the <o:trt is asked to decree that he died intestate. Following is the standing of the clubs in the National League: W. L. W. L. Pittsburg .. .48 32 Boston 39 40 Kt. L0ui5....48 30 New Y0rk...34 41 Philadelphia 40 35 ('in innati ...33 48 Brooklyn ...44 39 Chicago 34 55 Standings in the American League are as follows: W. L. W. L. Chicago ....54 29 Philadelphia. 34 42 Boston 47 31 Washington. 32 42 Baltimore ...43 32 Cleveland ...31 49 Detroit 45 37 Milwaukee . .30 54