Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 December 1901 — WEEK’S HISTORY. [ARTICLE]

WEEK’S HISTORY.

All the Important Happen I nge Chronicled in Very Brief Form. TELEGRAPH NEWS BOILED DOWN attention Given to Events of Moment tn Foreign Climes bo Well as Our Own Country. WASHISfITON NOTES. The president’s secretary, William Loeb, Jr., has taken a wife. Miss Katherine W. Dorr, of Allsiny, N. Y. Senator Jones was re-elected chaliwan of the Democratic congressional caucus. The president has reappointed Interstate Commerce Commissioner Charles A. Prouty of Vermont. In the decision of the Schley court t>f inquiry Admirals Benham and Ramsey declared the Admiral guilty of most of the charges against him. while Admiral Dewey held that, although he might be blamable in some respects, 'he should be given all the credit for destroying the Spanish fleet. Mrs. Ronine has been acquitted of the murder of Ayres and was cheered hy Washington street crowds as she left the courtroom. Representative Burton says that rivers and harbors appropriations will not be excessive this session. Admiral Schley has refused an offer Of SSOO a night for forty lectures. Congressman Boss introduced a bill for organization of a national naval reserve. The senate has ratified the HayPauncefote canal treaty by the decisive vote of 72 to fl. The ClavtonBulwer convention is dissolved and the way is cleared for an isthmian water way under American control. Admiral Schley notified Secretary Long be will flic a bill of objection to the judgment of the court of inquiry, and is given time to prepare it. Senator Warren has Introduced an amendment to tne constitution granting the rig... of suffrage to women. Senator Mason, In defending the use of his postal frank by a linking powder company, declared the fight on him was made by the manufacturers of harmful products. The wives of cabinet officers held a meeting to consider changing social precedents, but Mrs. Roosevelt advised them to stick to the present arrangement. Postmaster General Smith has resigned and will be succeeded In the cabinet by Henry C. Payne of WisconAin. Secretary Gage has sent to congress a bill providing more severe punishments for repented offenses of counterfeiting. Admiral Schley, through his attorneys. has filed with the secretary of the navy a bill of exceptions to the majority findings of the court of Inquiry. The bill providing temporary revenues for the Philippines passed the house, three Democrats voting for it and two Republicans voting with the minority. It imposes full Dingley rates on goods entering the islands. Admiral Sainirson'is reported in a critical condition at his residence in Washington. GKNERAL FOREIGN NEWS. It is said that the brigands who have Miss Stone in captivity are nfraid she will convert them to Christianity. The most recent Investigations Into German labor conditions show the labor situation to be growing worse. The revolt in Leyte has been subdued by American troops and the ports of the island will be opened again. Lord Kitchener charges Boers with robbing and murdering wounded British soldiers at Brakenlaagte, Reports received at Peking say that the dowager empress is iu noticeably failing health. Crown I’rincesa Sophia, wife of Crown Prince Constantin of Greece, gave birth to a son Saturday. The grand jury at London has returned a true bill against Theodore Jackson and Laura Jackson (Ann -Odelia -Diss de Bar).

Teu thousand refugees are expected to return to Johannesburg because of the opening of the gold mines. Manila experienced an earthquake •bock which lasted sixty-five seconds •nd extended over a wide area. Commandant Krltzlnger, a famous Boer leader, ia reported to have been badly wounded and captured by the .British at Hanover Hoad. The viceroy of India has returned to Calcutta, having completed his tour of Burmah. THK CRIMINAL RECOHII. Eight men have been arrested at Toledo. O„ on the charge of being lmfdicated In a postofllee robbery at MllIgan. Mich. Reuben Pickett charged with the murder of hia wife, lias been founu guilty of manslaughter in the first degree at Minneapolis. Burglars wrecked the store of C. 8. Ellis at Windsor. Wls. The Indiana supreme court has decided that John Rlukard. who murdered his wife at Marion about a yea* -ago, must die on the gallows. Harry M. Clark, former cashier of the First National bauk of Bridgeport. 0., indicted on the charge of making false entries on the books of the bank, has been acquitted. Frederick Shults, alias Lindley, has been sentenced at Soo. Ont., to be hanged on Feb. 7 for the murder of Miss Mary Craig. Safe blowers wrecked the safe in the Pennsylvania railroad station at Warren, 0., but got nothing. Charles A. Doud has been convicted of manslaughter at Allegan, Mich., for the second time. John Verrail pleaded guilty at Indianapolis to forgery and was given a sentence of from two to fourteen years’ imprisonment John Rhea, aged 77, committed Suicide by drowning in Eleven Mlle Creek, near Eaton, 0. Seven men have been arrested at Toledo, charged with robbing Ohio ©ostofflces. Benjamin Kilpatrick has been sen-

tvaced at St Louis to fifteen years’ Imprisbnment for forging fne names of Helena National bank officers to blank bank bills stolen in the Montana tfain robbery last July. Thieves entered the postoffice at Wilmerding, a suburb of Pittsburg, and stole cash and stamps to the value of about $2,000. A ticket agent of the New York “L” ■ road was swindled out of S4O by a man dressed in a company uniform. I An attempt was made to burn a five-story tenement house at 423 East One Hundred and Fourteenth street, New York, which was full of Italians. George M. Stoneking shot and fatally wounded his wife at Macomb,, Ills. W. J. Selvage, an Insurance agent, was shot on the street at Portsmouth, 0., by Charles W. Baker. Selvage is alleged to have caused the separation of Baker and his wife. Safe-blowers failed in attempts to rob the Citizens’ bank at Whitestown, Ind. BUSINESS NOTES. It is announced that James J. Hill has resigned from the board of directors of the Northern Pacific railroad. Three thousand bales of cotton have been sold at McKinney, Ter., for shipment to St. Petersburg. The total iron ore shipment from Escanaba, Mich., this season was 4.257.201 tons. Max Bernstein, proprietor of a large department store at Clinton, la., has gone into bankruptcy. The Gulf Coast Shipbuilding and Dry Dock company is to build a shipyard at Mobile, Ala., which will cost' .$3,000,000. The Peoria plant of the America) | Sugar Refining company has shut down, throwing 800 men out of employment. Directors of the National Bank of Illinois are being sued for $172,253 by creditors. Campbell Bros., sewer builders and dealers in sewer supplies at Cleveland, ; have filed a petition in bankruptcy i with debts aggregating SGO,OOO Winslow Alderice, for many years i active In manufacturing business, has I filed a petition in bankruptcy at War- I ren, O. MISHAPS AND DISASTERS. Actor Charles T. Claudas was killed ' at St. Joseph, Mo., by falling from the third floor of Swift & Co.'s packing plant Herman Deering, aged 62 years, a»d bls wife Margaret, 53 years .old, were found dead in bed at their home in Astoria, L. I. The room was filled with gas from an ojien burner. Two sons of Logan were crushed to death in a coal mine i ear Shoals, Ind. James Evans was shot and killed by Harvey Geer, while rabbit hunting near McClure, Ills. The house of Peter Schnugg at Cochrane. Wls., burned. A half-witted daughter was cremated. Nine persons killed and many injured in a head-end collision of Illinois passenger and freight trains between Irene and Perrvvllle, Ills. The wrecked cars caught tire and those not killed Instantly were roasted to death. Mrs. John Bloondecker, aged 30. and daughter Bessie, aged 5, were drowned Saturday in the Mahoning river at Youngstown, O. Seventeen firemen were severely scorched by a fire in the Brooklyn, N. Y., cooperage works. The 10-year-old son of Thomas Allen, residing ten miles west of Lafayette. Ind., was instantly killed by the accidental discharge of a rifle in the hands of his brother. Vend Brown, aged 48 years, a widower. who lived near Clermont, Ind., and Mrs. Dora Wilkins, aged 45, ids cousin, were killed by a Big Four passenger train near Cartersville, Ind. Harry Kidwell, a railroad conductor, and Nicholas Broegi, machinist, were killed by gas at Akron, O. B. Humes & Co.’s nitroglycerine factory, near Butler. Pa., was destroyed by an explosion. Thomas L. Edwards, aged 37, and Charles D. Parker, aged 25, were killed, not a shred of either being found. Richard Steele, a young married i man, bad both his legs cut off by a To-' ledo. St. Louis and Western traiu at! Marion, Ind. J. E. Carpenter, a mail clerk of Columbus Junction, la., was killed in a I railroad collision at Porter, la. J. P. Phillips, formerly of Chicago, was found dead In the engine room ! of an electric lighting plant at Sullivan, Ills. NOTABLE DEATHS. Samuel D. Wood, proprietor of the Baldwin bank of Delavan, Ills., Is dead. Rev. Francis Cheney, a UnlversalIst clergywoman. Is dead Saybrook, Ills. She was a graduate of Lombard university. John Murphy, superintendent of the St. Louis branch of Swift & Co., died suddenly at Muncie, Ind. Sir James Laing, a famous Sunderland. G. B„ shipbuilder, is dead. William L. Fa ria nd. the founder of Butte, Mont., is dead of pneumonia, aged 67 years. A. G. Wall, former editor of the Vandalia Union, is dead al Springfield, Ills. William Gregory, “governor of Rhode Island and Providence plantations,” died at Wickford. R. 1., Monday, aged 52. He was the first governor of that itate to die in office. Charles E. Hollenbeck, a wealthy citizen of Indianapolis, Ind., is dead. Dr. Brush 8. Huidekoper, aged 47, Is dead at Philadelphia of a complication of diseases contracted during the Span-ish-American war. Dr. John Stark, a well-known surgeon and physician, who from 1863 to 1805 was Kurgeob on the staff of General McClellan, is dead at Kansas City, of pneumonia. THE FIRE RECORD. The store of the Galesburg Shoe company of Galesburg, Ills., one of the largest In this city, was damaged by fire. At Arthur, Ills., the Schoolhouse caught fire and burned to the ground. The sawmill tielonging to M. B. Hards at Harris, Mich., was burned. The Geneva school building at Portland, Ind., burned, catching fire from an overheated furnace. M. S. Meyer A Co’s cigar factory at Milwaukee was damaged $20,000 by fire.