Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1901 — EVENTS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

EVENTS OF THE WEEK

Fire in the tied Hook storage building in Brooklyn, owned by the New York Storage Company, did damage to the estimated extent of $100,600, and property worth $150,000 more was in dangt r of being destroyed liefore the firemen mastered the Hames. Arrangements for a reunion of the Eighth Ohio regiment of the SpanishAmerican war, popularly known as th? "President's Own,” have been put as'.de until the complete recovery of the President. It had been hoped to have him at the reunion. The steamer Tartar brings news that a mountainin northern Japan disappeared after an earthquake. It rose over 500 feet in height and covered forty acres, at the outskirts of the village of Kolwaynma. It sank with a tremendous thundering noise. It whs officially announced that the Mexican International Railroad had been purchased by Hpeyer & Co. of New York. It is expected the property will be. operated more or leas in harmony with the Mexican National, which is in process of reorganization by the same firm. The schooner Sea Gem while attempting to make Manitowoc, Wis., harbor missed the pier and went ashore. Captain Hanshaw of Charlevoix, owner of the boat, ami the four members of the crew were saved. The vessel broke up, nnl with her cargo of slabs will Is- it total loos. While seated at the front window of his cottage, in Brighton, N. Y., Giuseppe ('uciauti was shot and seriously wounded. His assailant is not known, but the police arrested Joseph Bell, who was found running in Brighton avenue. On Bell's person was found a revolver with one of the chambers emptied. The Weldon Grocery Company, a < 01poration with a capital stock of $400,000, went into the hands of a receiver. The company has seventeen stores in Pittsburg and vicinity and is said to be doing a good business, but lately has been unhide to pay its credits when they came due and had to give notes*. Vice Admiral Fnik Pasha, chief of the general staff of the Turkish admiralty, has made his escape from Constantinople, going by British steamer to Malta. Fear of the consequences of his memorial to the Sultan denouncing maladministration in the navy caused his flight. His property has teen declared forfeited. Three conviyts at the State penitentiary— Ed Caviness, sent up for murder; Frank Harris, for stealing beef cuttie, and D. K. Reed, serving time for larceny —have escaped from the penitentiary ranch two miles from the prison near Canon City, Colo. They overpowered Overseer King, an I, taking his carbine and revolver and horses from the stable, started for the mountains. Some weeks ago Homer Reahard, an 11-year-old boy, was found dead near his home in West Denver, Colo., with a bullet in his brain. He was thought to have been accidentally shot by a hunter, but the police now believe it was a case of murder, and eight boys have been arrested on suspicion. The detectives believe Reahard had quarreled with some of these boys and that he was first stoned nud then shot. Following is the standing of the clubs in the National League: W. L. W. L. Pittsburg ~.73 42 Boston 59 61 Philadelphia 70 19 Chicago 50 74 Brooklyn ...09 53Cincinnati ...45 68 St. L0ui5....63 50 New Y0rk...45 71 Standings in the American League are as follows: W. L. W. L. Chicago ....70 40 Baltimore ....">8 58 Boston 68 52 Washington. 53 66 Detroit 05 55 ('levels nd ...52 08 Philadelphia 02 58 Milwaukee ..44 70