Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1902 — WEEK’S NEWS RECORD [ARTICLE]

WEEK’S NEWS RECORD

Mr. and Mrs. Milton Gorton, «n aged eon pie, were burned to death nt their residence? four miles northeast of Litchfield, Minn. The hired man, Frank Addy, aged 18 years, escaped in his night attire, this being on fire when he got out of the house. The election returns indicate that Tomas Estrada Palma has been elected president of Cuba and that a light vote has been east throughout the island. In Havana and in most of the large cities the partisans of Gen. Bartoloine Maso did not vote. "According to'advice* rrora the Orient." n party of 105 coolies engaged in transporting camphor, was at lacked by Formosan insurgents and twenty of them were killed. Nineteen were decapitated. Japanese troops and police were sent against the rebels. Many of the largest flouring mills in Kansas will have to shut down soon If the price of \fhent does not drop from the recent heavy rise. The mills which stocked up heavily two months ago nt lower price are running to full capacity and are making big money on their flour. A shortage iu the funds of the State health department covering a period of two years has been discovered at Dallas, Texas. The amount will reach into the thousands. Dr. I. T. Jones, who was secretary to the late health officer, Dr. Blunt, left the city two weeks ago for Mexico. Twelve persona were injured, one urobably fatally, in a collision between an electric car and a freight train at the Forty-seventh street crossing of the Chicago Junction Railway switch tracks into the Chicago stock yards. .Another man', not a passenger, was hurt in the work of rescue. Twenty Japanese are missing from Steveston, B. C., and are supposed to have been killed or drowned in the destruction of a Japanese boarding house between Steveston and Point Roberts. The boarding house stood out on piles, and not a vestige of the structure now remains. Edward Kerns, a valet, is wanted in New York on the charge of being concerned in a SIOO,OOO jewelry robbery from Paul G. Thebaud, his employer. Among the articles taken are a single pearl-shaped diamond valued nt $20,000. a pearl worth $15,000, and a collection of 275 scarf pins. News has reached Bisboe, Ariz., of the killing of George Ashton and Cifiu Benningfield, well-known cattlemen, by Mexican woodchoppers in the Iluaehuca mountains. The trouble grew out of Benningfield's effort to stop the Mexicans, who were shooting holes into his tent. An attempt to wreck a ear on the Toledo, Bowling Green and Southern Electric Railroad w«us made near Bowling Green, Ohio. The car with twenty passengers ran into a pile of boards placed on the track, where it runs along a deep gully. By good fortune the cur did not leave the track, and a calamity was thus averted. As a result of drinking eight twoounce bottles of lemon extract William King, a farmer southeast of Paris, I ml., died. Coroner Roberts held an inquest and recommended that the grand jury investigate and prosecute merchants who sell extract for drinking, this being the fifth death of the kind iu that vicinity re< eutly. Burglars blew the safe in the postoflk-e and general store at Nottingham, a Cleveland suburb. The explosion awakened Postmaster Hoose, who with several citizens opened fire on the cracksmen, us the latter were leaving the building with their booty. The burglars returned the fire and fully two dozen shots were exchanged. After a long running fight, however, the robbers escaped. A bloody trail showed that at least one of their number had been badly wounded. At 2 o'clock Friday morning on the Iron Railway line, three miles back of Iroutou, Ohio, occurred an event that will end in a double tragedy. Frank Wilson, jealous of his stepbrother, at whose house Wilson's wife was staying, quarreled with his father-in-law, Frank Monning. Mooning shot Wilson's right arm off with a shotgun. Wilson with his left hand drew a revolver and shot Monning through the heart, killing him instantly. Wilson was some hours iu getting medical attention and will die.