Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1901 — SUMMARY OF NEWS. [ARTICLE]

SUMMARY OF NEWS.

' Fifty thousand dollars sent from Quebec and intended for the payment of Burgoyne’s army 125 years ago has been recovered from an old hulk in East Bay, Lake Champlain, where it was sunk to prevent it falling into the hands of Americans. After eluding the police of the principal cities of the country for two years, W. E. Hutchinson, who is wanted in Pittsburg for embezzling $4,500 from the German National Building and Loan Association, was arrested at the office of H. N. Coolidge & Co. in Chicago. Following is the standing of the clubs in the National League: W. L. W. L. Pittsbnrg ...88 48Boston <lB Gs) Philadelphia 83 56New Y0rk...52 83 Brooklyn ...77 aSChicago 52 85 St. L0ui5....75 111 Cincinnati ...51 86 The Interior Department is rapidly completing plans for the opening of the Fort Hall, Idaho, Indian reservation. The date has not been fixed, ns the preliminary work is not completed, but it is expected that the reservation, which contains 400,000 acres, will be thrown open to settlement within a few weeks. James Edward Brady, the jnan who made an unusually brutal attack upon 5-year-old Ida Pugsley in Helena, Mont., was taken from the jail by a mob and hanged to a telegraph pole in Haymarket Square, about three blocks from the jail. About 200 men were engaged in the lynching, and they were masked. Advices received from Foo-Chow by the steamer Athenian tell of the narrow eseape from death -of live officers and several seamen of the United States cruiser Wilmington when they arrived at the Chinese port. The officers were going ashore in the cruiser's launch when the boiler exploded. No one was hurt. Ceremonies attending the unveiling of a monument erected by the State to mark the spot where Lieut. Zebulon M. Pike hauled down the Spanish flag and caused the Stars and Stripes to be raised for the first time in Kansas territory were belli at Courtland, Kan. The monument is located at the Pawnee Indian village, close to Courtland. Very quietly the United States government has tendered an apology to Japan for an indignity imposed upon the wife of ati official of that country. During the bubonic plague in the Orient a steamer from Japan arrived at Honolulu and the officers made a rigid inspection of all passengers, especially of the Japanese, and the wife of the Japanese consul was among those thus treated. The extensive mills of the E. Q. Stan nrd Company .■Mid several adjoining build ings wore, destroyed by tiro at Alton, 111. The loss is $400,000, of which $300,(MM) falls upon the Stanard Company. Other losers are the Farmers’ elevator, $25,000; George B. Hayden, machine ship, $15,000; Roller Milling Company and Model Hotel. $5,000 each. The freight house of the Diamond Joe Line and seven small buildings also were burned. A financial octopus, the tentacles of which are Pierpont Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, William C. Whitney, the Seligmans, Guggenheimer and kindred spirits, is reaching out for the control of the lead mines, smelting works and white lead manufacturing plants of the entire country. The capital of the new combine will be about $150,000,000 and the properties to be absorbed will include some twenty-six plants now operated by the National Lead Company. The first case of hazing at Missouri University, at Columbia, in many years was reported to the disciplinary committee of the faculty the other day. 8. A. Thompson was the victim. Under the supposition that he was to be initiated by a secret fraternity he was enticed into the woods, stripped of his clothing, tied to a tree nud thrashed with switches. His hair was clipped close to his head by his tormentors, who, after hiding his clothing, deserted him. As it was dark and cold, the victim suffered severely while he wandered through the trees and bushes in quest of hie garments. Thompson reported the matter and reqm sled an investigation, but. ns he was unable to identify any student implicated, nothing lias been done toward punishing the malefactors.