Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 December 1901 — WEEK’S HISTORY. [ARTICLE]

WEEK’S HISTORY.

All the Important Happenings Chronicled in Very Brief Form. TELEGRAPH NEWS BOILED DOWN Attention Given to Events of Moment in Foreign Climes as Welt as Our Own Country. WASHINGTON NOTES." Bills have teen introduced for public buildings at Jacksonville and Pekin, Ills. Congressman Crumpacker has introduced his bill to reduce jsouthern representation in congress. The United States supreme court has taken a recess until Jan. 6. The president appointed Cornelius Van Cott to be postmaster at New York. Director of the Mint Roberts, in his - annual report, recommends an fn- ■ crease in the country’s stock of subsidiary coin, which, he says, is demanded by the country’s growing needs. < A bill has been introduced in the Senate providing for the repeal of the bankruptcy law. The Presbyterian revision committee, iu session at Washington, discussed the question of “election." A bill has been introduced in the house to pay Miss Stone’B ransom. THE POLITICAL FIELD. J. E. Iglehart of Evansville, Ind., is a candidate for successor to Judge Woods. Indiana senators and representatives are unable to agree on a candidate tc succeed the late Judge Woods. Democrats swept Boston by 19,000 plurality, the largest in Its history. Patrick A. Collins was chosen mayor and his party controls city affairs absolutely. GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS. The November statement of the British board of trade show’s decreases of £2.923,200 iu Imports and £1,782,000 tn exports. The Chinese loan of 265,000,000 francs at 3 per cent, will be issued Dec. 21. A dispatch from Sofia to a London Caper says that Miss Stone’s release y the brigands is imminent. Filipino rebels in Luzon are fountf to have killed George Hayes and a party of prospectors who disappeared In March. 1900. It is now declared that Miss Stone has been located exactly, and that she Is alive. The public schools of the Philippines have been instructed to hold annual celebrations in memory of Jose Uizal. the patriot. Distress among German laboring men without employment has made necessary the establishment of soup bouses in large cities of the empire. Kitchener’s last wekely report gives 31 Boers killed. 17 wounded, 372 cap tured and 35 surrendered. King Edward has definitely fixed June 26, 1902, as the date for his coronation. Paul Kruger has taken possession of a new residence at Utrecht, Holland.

THE CRIMINAL RECORD. Another skeleton has been found on the farm of Henry Bastian, near Rock ! Island, eight murders now being . charged. Robbers surrounded iu a bank at Archbald. 0., fought their way out, carrying $2,000 in plunder. James G. Green, who murdered E.’ V. Ben jh mln last March, has been hanged at Stevenson, Wash. James J. Hampton, colored, who committed a double murder at Fort White, Fla., nine years ago has been hanged at Lake City, Fla. A mob at Opp. Ala., threatened to lynch twenty-five negroes accused of taking part in the recent race riot State troops are on guard. Burglars blew a safe at Wharton, 0., and got no money. The safe wat blown forty feet into the street. Thirty-nine prisoners in jail at Birmingham, Ala., escaped. A footpad at Lexington, Ky., killed and robbed J. N. Hawkins. T. B. Waters, a traveling salesman of Toledo. 0., jumped out of the thirdstory window at the Hotel Lahr in Lafayette. lud., breaking his neck. The national capital has another crime mystery in the assault upon Mrs. Gilbert, a fashionable dressmaker. who was beaten with a pianostool top and fatally Injured by a miscreant hidden In her bedroom One of a gang of three robbers was killed and a second captured by officers in Strawberry Gulch, S. D. William Sharpless, white, was shot and killed near Oskaloosa, la., by Buck Williams, colored, as the result of an old grudge. Theodore Duerr, aged 50, a merchant of South Milford, Ind., committed suicide. Will McCowan and Willis Buckner, both colored, settled an old enmity by a street duel with pistols at Lincoln, Neb. McCowan was killed. Two more safe blowings are reported from Ohio—one at Felicity, the other at Shreve—but the robbers got nothing in either case. G. L. Rowell and J. S. Overstreet shot and killed each other in a quarrel over some trade matter at Zoifo, Fla. Ben Milam, a former negro slave, has been arrested charged with kidnaping negroes amt selling them as slaves to the manager of a plantation on a stockaded island near New Decatur, Ala. Anderson Norris, colored, who killed Mrs. Emma French at Waco. Tex., Dec. 5, 1960, has been sentenced to be hanged Jan. 5. A reward of $2,500 has iK’en offered for the arrest of H. J. Fleishman, the absconding cashier of the Merchant*' National bank of Loa Angeles. Oscar Anderson, a burglar awaiting trial in the ity prison at Alexandria, Ind., hung himself. Henry E. Gash, traveling salesman

for the Galesburg, Ills., branch of the Armour Packing company, has been arrested charged with embezzling sl,BUSINESS NOTES. * The Armours of Chicago have purchased 200 acres of land across the Missouri river from St. Joseph, where It is supposed a packing house will be erected. Street car employes at Minneapolis, St. Paul and Stillwater are to receive an advance in wages Jan. 1. R. It. Scott, proprietor of stores at Bicknell and Mooresville, Ind., has assigned. The Lenoir City bank at Lenoir City. Tenn., has closed its doors. Depositors will lose nothing, it is stated. A syndicate of Chicago capitalists has secured an option on the properties of tlie Bird’s-Eye Coal company in Whitley county, Ky. N. I'. Clark, lumberman of St. Cloud, Minm, has filed a petition In bankruptcy. ~ - Mrs. Carrie Nation, the Kansas “Joint 1 ’ smasher, has announced the suspension of her paper, The Smashers’ JI ail. , The directors of the Omaha Loan and Trust company have decided not to ask for a receiver at present. Affairs of the institution are m the hands of the stock holders’ committee, Wymans having retired. N. \V. Harris & Co. of Chicago have secured the $50,000 sewer and water bonds sold by the city of Charlotte, Mich. Kansas farm products and live stock this year are valued at $350,000,060, an increase of $17,000,000 over last year and an increase In two years of $45,000.000. The Kokomo, Ind., plate glass factory has just turned out the largest pane of glass in the world. It is IMH4 by 122% inches in size and weighs 1,450 pounds. The Metropolitan Life Insurance company of New York has absorbed the American Life Insurance company of Lexington, Ky. The directors of the Western Union Telegraph company have declared the regular quarterly dividend of 1% per cent. The failure of the publishing firm of Butler & Alger, of New Haven, Conn., is announced.

MISHAPS AND DISASTERS. Elisha Campbell of New Richmond, Ind., was killed in a runaway In Lafayette. Marion Lutes, Perry Mitchell and Elias Henderson were killed by the explosion of a boiler at Lutes’ sawmill near Seymour. Ind. Mrs. Louis Peterson of Duluth attempted to fill a lighted lamp and was killed. The remains of Major B. I. Bond, son of the Angeliean Metropolitan of Canada, were found in the ruins of his summer residence, which was destroyed by fire near Philipsburg, Que. John F. Wynne of Allegan, Mich., was thrown under a wheel and killed while trying to board a wagon to which a team of skittish colts were attached. M. W. Ament, of Litchfield, Ills., a traveling man, was caught by a switch engine of the Big Four near his home and killed. Five more deaths have occurred as a result of the head-end collision between two passenger trains on the St Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern railroad near Malvern, Ark., making a total of eight Flossie Delabretonne, the 2-year-old daughter of H. V. Delabretonne of New Orleans, and Mary Ernest aged 17, his sister-in-law, were burned to death in a tire which destroyed the cottage of Mr. Delabretonne. Manager Johnson, of the Postal Telegraph company, bls son. and a negro driver were killed three miles from Newton. Miss., by a falling tree. The 10-year-old sou of Joseph Kmeller of Columbia City, Ind., was drowned in a pond near that place. Twenty persons were injured in a wreck on the Central of Georgia railroad near Macon. Jesse Oldham, a farmer who lived near Winterset la., fell over a precipice while walking in the timber and broke his neck. Mrs. Eli Clark and her little granddaughter were burned to death at Oden, Ind. Herbert Wallace, who served as trumpeter in Torrey’s rough riders during the Spanish-American war. was Instantly killed by a premature explosion of a shot in the Copper King mine at Tie Siding. Wyo. Engineer Cooper and a fireman were killed in a head-end freight collision on the Northern Pacific near North Yakima, Wash. John Daley, one of the proprietors of the co-operative coal mine in Fairbury, Ills., was killed' by a rock falling upon him while in the mine. Mrs. C. A. Baker of Delaware, 0., died in a Columbus. 0., hospital from the effects of an anaesthetic administered to rewove a small growth on her neck. NOTABLE DEATHS. Colonel John Doniphan, Who served with his uncle. General A. W. Doniphan. in successful campaigns In the Mexican war, is dead at his home in St. Joseph, Mo. THE FIRE RECORD. The convicts’ kitchen at the Chester, Ills., penitentiary has been destroyed by fire. Fire caused over $250,000 damage to the National Starch company's works at Des Moines. A cotton figure of Santa Claus in a store window at Wllkesbarre, Pa., caused a $260,000 fire. The plant of the Wabash Screen company, with its lumber yards at Rhinelander, Wls., burned. Loss, $400,000. The business section of Hoopestown, Ills., was destroyed by fire. Six business houses, a livery stable and eight dwellings were burned at Wayne, W. Va. Loss, $50,000, Fire destroyed the drykiln of the Tacoma, Wash., Mill company, with 75,000 feet of lumber, causing a loss of $20,000. with no Insurance. Fire at Wooster, 0., destroyed the main building of Wooster university. Loss, $250,000; Insurance, $70,000. A three-story saw factory in Brooklyn owned by Joshua Oldham & Sons baa been burned.