Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1901 — WEEK’S HISTORY. [ARTICLE]

WEEK’S HISTORY.

JMI the Important Happenings Chronicled in Very * Brief Form. fELEOEAPn NEWS BOILED DOWN Attention Given to Event* of Moment In Foreign Cliniee aa Well h Our Own Country. WASHINGTON NOTES. Congressman Hepburn of the eomtneree committee declares the Nicaragua canal bill before thelust congress Will be reintroduced. General and Mrs. Corbin have returned to Washington. Opposition to the ship subsidy bill tas become so strong that the advocates of the measure will make no attempt to pass It the coming congress. The naval board has agreed on single turrets for the new battleship's. The president has appointed William Crosier chief of ordnance, with rank of brigadier general, vice Buffington, retired. Senator Allison, in outlining the work of the coming congress, declared tariff revision unlikely. Strong attempt will he made at the coming session of congress to have Oklahoma, with Ita/population of 398,831, admitted as a state. General Crosier has assumed charge Of the ordnance bureau. THE POLITICAL FIF.I.D. Alabama gave tlie new constitution, which disfranchises the negroes, 38,429 majority. Boston Republicans have unanimously renominated Thomas N. Hurt for mayor. The recent city election cost Greatei Jy’ew York $1170,000, or SI.OB for each voter that was registered. Mayor-Elect Seth Low is trying to get a capable military officer for chief [ of police of New York. Governor Htoue, of Pennsylvania, j tins removed one Brown, whom he had appointed recorder of Pittsburg, and ! appointed another Brown. L. Y. Sherman Is expected to lie the leader of the opposition In the light j against the Isoinier Yates combiiia- j tion at the next Republican state convention. GENERA I. FOREIGN NEWS. Queen Dragu of Servia, a report to i "Vienna says, has 'been shot at In a Belgrade street. while rumor ends her | life by assassination or suicide. . Kitchener reports the capture of two | Snore small Boer commandos, number- j 3ng sixty men. The foreign office at Sofia resents the Insinuations published abroad that the government is acting in bad faith j In the Miss Stone case. The Vienna story of the assasslna- ! it ion of Queen I>raga of Servia is off! j fidally denied from Belgrade. An ultimatum has been sent to the captors of Miss Stone giving them six -day* to accept a specified sum for her release. Seven people were killed and thirty- j •erlonsly wounded at Athens in j fights between Greek troops and citizens. Students led the mob. Arthur Lynch, colonel of the Second Irish brigade in the Boer army, was .elected to a seat in parliament from the Galway district. Riots continue In Athens, the troops staving a busy time suppressing violence. Consul Dickinson has left Sofia for ■Constantinople to confer with the secretary of thi> 1 Tufted States legation concerning the Stone ransom. Nationalists at Dublin paraded the town Saturday, wrecking the doors and windows of the houses of Unionists and Nationalists suspected of voting • against the Nationalist candidate, Bynch. Tin* Greek ministry has resigned as a result of the recent riots in Athens. Boers attacked a British convoy and -ruearly captured 100 prisoners. Half a million Chinese are reported ' * •tarving In the Yang tse valley. THE CRIMINAL RECORD. Safe blowers looted the First Nation- j al bank of Mondovl, Wis., of SO,BOO In j money. Morris einsteln and Morris Goldman, leather dealers of Newark, N. J., have been arrested in New York on the charge that they had received stolen goods valued at $3,000. Mrs. 11. S. Dale is charged with the ' murder of her 5-year-old daughter, j who died mysteriously at a Hoboken I <N. J.) hotel. Evidence at the coroner’s Inquest In •the Krtlley Renner murders at Evansville. Ind.. implicated Policeman Slierwell and another man. A trusted bookkeeper has robbed the Bank of Liverpool, England, of $830,000. Chicago hold-up men beat nnd robbed two young women, shot a man In the leg for failure to throw up his bands promptly, and despoiled a Chinaman in the down-town district of his • earnings. William Milwizski, a Slav, was 'killed and Frank Grandwaski was fatally injured during n riot following a Slav christening at McKee’s Hocks, Ba. Judge M. A. Rogers of Denver committed suicide by blowing himself to pieces with dynamite. George T. Doolie was fatally shot at Bequeen, Ark., by school principal Dick Cobb. Fred Carlson, a logger, 18 years of ngc, who was married seven weeks ■go. committed suicide at Duluth by taking strychlue In the presence of, his wife. Three masked men held up "The Him.” a gambling resort at ClilckaeLa. I. T. t and got away with S7OO. Ben McKnight, convicted at Sioux City. la., of boating his wife to death, lias been denied a new trial and sentenced to twenty-five years lu prison. William Dohman, of Chicago, killed tMinself because be was unable to sup-B-rt Ids wife and Infant daughter. BUSINESS NOTES. The Menominee River Lumber com-

pany at Marinette, Wlm, cut Its last log. The mill was established about 1650. A movement is on foot among New York city savings banks to reduce the rate of interest to depositors after Jan. 1 from 4 to 3% per cent. / The rule of the railroads In charging excess fare on fast trains between Chicago and New York is likely to be abolished. A strike for union wages of shirtwaist makers involving 40,000 men and girls is being prepared for New York. Charles M. Hays has been reapnointisl general manager of the Grand Trunk railway. The Louisville and Nashville railroad, w ithout notice, has advanced the Wages of all tlie shopmen in Louisville, who formerly drew $1.75 a day or over. The Copper Range railroad in Michigan has closed n contract with C. J. Johnson for enough ties for fifty miles of track. Frank A. Munsey. the publisher, has purchased a controlling interest in the New York Daily News. MISHAPS AND DISASTERS. Seven persons were killed and three passengers and fourteen trainmen were injured inn collision between limited trains on the Santa Fe road In Arizona. Fire In the Smuggler-Union mine tunnel at Tellurhle, Col., resulted In t.he death of probably 100 miners. Twenty-two bodies have been taken from the Works. Charlie Ott, aged 13, used an old nitroglycerine can for n drum at Alexandria, Ind., causing an explosion which shook the city and tore him to pieces. Thomas O’Hara, a 7-year-old boy. was crushed to death in Joliet, Ills., by an electric car. James McKinney, foreman at the Crandall coal mine, was crushed to death at Pekin, Ills., by the falling of a pile-driver hammer. Miss Belie Woods, aged 25; Charles P. Vallenoey. aged 20, and Stanley McLeod, aged 24, skated into an airhole in St. Louis bay, near West I)u----iutli, Minn., nnd were drowned. Clade Weir of Columbia, Mo., was killed at Centmlla, Mo., on the Chicago nnd Alton track. A party of eight West Virginia state Inspectors and mine officials entered a colliery near Blueflelds to Investigate the recent explosion in the Kahy mine and failed to return. All are thought to have been killed by firedamp. Thirty-three bodies have been taken from the Smuggler-Union mine at Tellnride, Col. A staging In a carriage factory at Allegan, Mich., upon which three masons were working, broke, precipitating the occupants to the ground, forty feet below. Gottlieb Uriels 1 , one of the workmen, fell on n pile of stone and was killed. Robert Moriarity and Robert Soper, two little boys, broke through the ice while skating at Eau Claire, Wis., and were drowned. Mrs. William M. Swift and infant were burned to death at their home near Grannis, Ark. Rose, Amelia, Amanda and Sylvia Miller, sisters, were suffocated in a lire that burned their home at Knoxville, Pittsburg suburb. The steamer Alert, with 200 passengers, including some discharged American soldiers from Olongapo, is believed to have been lost on its way from Sublg bay to Manila. The bodies of the eight officials of the Pocahontas mine at Blttefields. W. Ya„ who were killed by tire damp, have'been recovered by searchers. Twenty-seven persons killed and twenty-four injured by a boiler explosion. which wrecked tlie plant of the Penberthy Injector company at Detroit. The house of I.imeriek Flax, colored, of Lidos Bridge, near Darlington, 8. C., was burned and throe children, aged from 3 to H years, who had been locked In by their father, perished. Nicholas Nielson, a farmer, was killed, his son George, aged 10, fatally injured and his wife dangerously hurt In a runaway accident near Omaha. By the caving In of slate in Brazil block coal mine No. 11, near Brazil, Ind., Frank Kolontsky was instantly killed and Antonio Cubusehwsk fatally Injured. Two men named Griffith and Robinson were killed while boring a well near Camden, Mo., by the accidental explosion of a charge of dynamite.

NOTABLE DEATHS. Colonel D. M. Fox, a veteran of the war of 1812, is dead at Dea Moines. Alson J. Streeter is dead at his home in New Windsor, Ills. He was a candidate of the labor party for president in 1888. Professor .Joseph Henry Tliayer Bussey, professor emeritus of Harvard university. is dead iu his 74tli year. THE FIRE RECORD. Whitney's grand opera house at Detroit was damaged SIO,OOO by tire; insured. Fire at North Weymouth, Mass., destroyed the main building of the Bradley Fertilizer works. Loss, SIOO,OOO. Jonestown, Miss., was practically destroyed by fire. Twenty buildings were burned. Loss, $75,000. ODDS AND ENDS. Argentine Republic troops have lnj vaded Chilean territory. The Reform club of New York presented a memorial to the president op- * lx,sing ship subsidy. The national grange has elected Aaron Jones of ludlunu national worthy master. | The lowa university football scrubs ; threatened to strike unless taken to (Chicago to witness the game with Michigan. J. W. Yantis of Sbelbyvllle was elected grand master of Illinois Odd Fellows. | Salvatore Armes of New York Ims been arresteu for throwing a 3-year-old cblld Into a bonfire. The divorce suit brought by David Nation against Ills wife. Carrie Nation, the saloon smasher, lias been begun at Medicine Lodge. Kan. I The court-martial of Captain Tilley to being held at l’ago-I’ago. ; Cold weather at I Towle’s 7.10 n City lls making life under tenta disagreeable. W. C. Whitney’s winnings on the English turf thla season were £10,820.