Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1901 — WEEK’S NEWS EECORD [ARTICLE]

WEEK’S NEWS EECORD

A cablegram received by Miss Clara Harley of Cleveland announced the death nt Margate, England, of her brother, Or lando Harley, the famous tenor singer. Mr. Harley was one of the few Americans who reached fame on the operatie stage. The New York and Boston express train collided with a freight train while passing out of New Haven, Cann., through the Cedar Hill yard. It is reported that two passenger ears weje telescoped and that two persons were injured. B. F. Jossy, an immigration commissinner stationed at Tucson, Ariz., committed suicide by shooting himself. He was charged with smuggling Chinese across the border from Mexico and implicated with him was Collector of Customs Hoey of Nogales. The safe in the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company’s branch office in Chicago was blown open by burglars. The cracksmen secured $207. The office is located ou the second floor of a flat building, but nobody heard the explosion. The safe door was blown off, evidently by dynamite. A locomotive and two empty passenger coaches jumped the Lehigh Valley track at Oxboro curve above Mauch Chunk, Pa., and went over an embankment four feet high. Charles Burroughs, the engineer, and the fireman were caught beneath the overturned locomotive tin I both were killed. A battle was fought near Ringwood, O. T., between members of an anti-horse thief association and the Jenkins ban I ol horse thieves, of wlwiu twu. wui- -badly wounded. Five men rode to Ringwood with a bunch of horses stolen in Grant County. They were recognized, the horses seized, and the battle followed. State Treasurer J. 11. Stowers of Mis sissippi has been suspended by Gov. Longino, who appointed G. W. Carlisle temporary treasurer. Mr. Stowers had admitted that $107,000, missing and unaccounted for when the Governor counted the cash Aug. 15, had been deposited in banks, which is forbidden by law. Margaret Tyler, 7 years old, was kidnaped by her father from the home of Mrs. M. F. Green in Chicago. The child's mother had been divorced from Bert Tyler, and hail married J. J. Waite, a bank clerk. Mrs. Waite ditsl two weeks ago, and the child was placed in the carof Mrs. Green. In company with a man who represented himself to be a constable, Tyler went to the house of Mrs. Green and took the child by force. Mrs. William Townsend of Brookings, 8. D,, has returned from Faribault, Minn., where she had been to look after her interests in the estate of her uncle, Harvey Scott, who died Aug. 1, leaving property to the amount of about $(*0,000. Of this amount there is $25,000 in government bonds and notes. In his will he ordered $25,000 to be burned and willed that $5,000 be given to his housekeeper. The authorities have refused to destroy the money as directed in the will and it is likely the heirs will secure their rights. Following is the standing of the clubs In the National League: W. L. W. L. Pittsburg ...50 39 Boston 51 55 Brooklyn ...01 47 New Y0rk...42 58 Philadelphia 00 47 Cincinnati ...42 59 St. L0ui5....59 4S Chicago .....44 C 5 Standings in the American League are as follows: W. L. W. L. Chicago ... .(55 12 Philadelphia. 55 51 Boston (53 43 Washington. 45 57 Baltimore ...5(5 4(5 Cleveland ...14 ill Detroit 5(5 GO Milwaukee . .37 70