Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1902 — EVENTS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

EVENTS OF THE WEEK

The Neues Wiener Tngeblatt of Vienna asserts that negotiations are in progress for the sale of the Philippine Islands to Germany, and that the visit of Admiral Prince Henry to the United States is preliminary to the announcement of this Bale. At Carrolton. Mo.. William Marsh, who with Edward Moran was charged with killing a man named McKinney Inst May, has been convicted of murder in the second degree and sentenced to ten years in the penitentiary. The jury was out four hours. The second section of the New York Central limited, east bound, struck a switch engine standing on the track in front of the Oneida, N. Y., station. The engineer of the limited—Dorsey Welch of Albany—was killed. Both engines and a large part of the station were demolished. Two notorious burglars and cracksmen were killed, and Deputy Sheriff W. 8. Mannoring seriously wounded and Marshal Peter Fintzenwald of Athens mortally wounded as the result of a tight following an attempt to rob Mrs. Mary Priest, an aged and wealthy widow of Gallipolis, Ohio. In St. Paul, Minn., the People's Church, an independent communion with Congregationalist affiliation, of which Rev. R. (1. Smith, the well-known sociologist, is pastor, was completely destroyed by tire. The church was built in 1888, and including its large organ represented an outlay of $105,000. Three masked men mistreated and robbed Father Baulovits of St. Stephen's Church, Toledo, Ohio, and left him in a serious condition. Two of them seized him, choked him myirly to death, and then bound him with cords in such a manner that the cords cut into the flesh. They then demanded S7OO, which they claimed they knew he had in the house. The main part of Urab Orchard. Neb., was destroyed by fire, the origin of which has not yet been determined. The bank, A. O. U. W. Hall. Richardson Mercantile Company, F. M. Sharrett Hardware Company, postotlice, and numerous smaller buildings were ruined. The loss is estimated at from $30,000 to $50,000, partly covered by insurance. In Hamilton, Ohio, Judge Neiian sustained a demurrer to the State's evidence against Sylva ami Leota Bishop, faith r-urists, charged with manslaughter for allowing their daughter Esther, who was burned in a gasoline explosion, to die. for want of medical aid. He said that under the Ohio law such omission constituted no crime, anil the belief of the defendants did not enter into the case. Three persons were killed, two fatally hurt and a score of others more or less Injured by two runaway ears on the Monongahela branch of the Pittsburg Railway Company. The accident happened at the foot of the long hill running ; nto Wilmerding from McKeesport. A ear without passengers got beyond the control of the motorman and dashed down the hill. At the bottom it jumped into the Pennsylvania Railroad station, carrying away the side of the depot and tearing up the platform. Fred Tiner, n full-blood Shawnee Indian, alleged to have attacked three Shawnee squaws, was tied to a stake to be burned to death by members of his tribe, men mid women. He was being put through the preliminary torture, when Deputy United States Marshal Davis arrived from Arbeka, I. T.. quickly took in the situation, held the mob back with a gun, and single-handed cut the thongs, bricked away from the crowd with his prisoner, and safely escaped to Wewoka, where Tiner was placed in ji« il. The 142 prisoners in the United States jail at South McAlestbr, I. T., made an unsuccessful break for liberty and Nicholas Woolridge, charged with murder, and Charles Carter, charged with peddling whisky, were shot in the legs by the guards. They made a rush for the iron railing separating them from 'he miter door. Fifty of them reached the railing and tore it away, mid the wh de gang of prisoners started for the door. Jailer Wilkinson and his guards tired mid Woolridge and Carter fell. The prisoners pleaded for mercy and were ordered back to their quarters.