Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 March 1902 — WEEK’S HISTORY. [ARTICLE]

WEEK’S HISTORY.

Ail the Important Happenings Chronicled in Very Brief Form. TXLRGRAPH NEWS BOILED DOWN Attention Given to Events of Moment In Foreign Climea as Well as Our Own Country. WASHINGTON NOTES. The ihissiou of the Boer delegates to the United States government is ended so far as Washington officials know. The Spanish treaty claims commission has decided that claims on behalf of the victims of the Maine explosion have no standing before the commission. The Austrian legation at Washington is to be raised to the rank of an embassy. The president has signed the bill creating a permanent census bureau. A Washington dispatch to the London Times says Miss Roosevelt will attend King Edward's coronation. President Roosevelt Ims chosen W. L. Mioody of Massachusetts to succeed Secretary of the Navy Long. The appointment has been accepeed and the change will be made May 1. Secretary Wilson Ims returned to Washington from a trip in the west. Resolutions have been introduced in congress authorizing the president to Invite France to take part in the unveiling of the Rochnmbeau monument. President Roosevelt hereafter will give out the only Information concerning cabinet meetings. Beet sugar Republicans of the house •greed to force action-on-Cuba, Public announcement is made of the resignation of John 1). Long, secretary of the navy, and th (‘appointment of W. IL Moody of Massachusetts as his successor. The American tour of Prince Henry was dosed with a public reception in Philodelpha and a visit to Cramp’s shipyards. The guest In a formal farewell speech denied a secret object in his visit. He has sailed on the Deutschland. Republican leaders of the house expect the Cuban tariff bill will be passed this month. The war revenue repeal bill of the house was so carelessly drawn a new measure will be substituted for it in the senate. The house committee on foreign and Interstate commerce is hearing people talk pure food. War department officials are opposed to the bill to give heirs of General FitzJolin Porter $230,000 back salary. Republican members of the house opposed to Cuban reciprocity held a caucus and decided to fight such a concession. The house passed the bill classifying the rural mail delivery service. The carriers are to get more pay. The senate will probably take early action on reclpricity treaties negotiated under the Din gley law. Beet sugar Republicans were defeated in the house caucus in an attempt to force indefinite postponement of the Cuban tariff question. OENEKAL FOREIGN NEWS. The Brussels sugar treaty has been finally signed by all the nations interested in the compact. Negotiations are in progress in London for a treaty of arbitration between Great Britain and the United States over Canada’s claim to Alaskan territory. Canadian scouts discovered in Orange River colony a secret Boer magazine in a cave. One item of its contents was 310,000 rifle cartridges. The French press publishes full reports of Prince Henry's visit, and most of the comment is of a complimentary character. Chinese bandits captured a priest at Jebol. The Infanta Eulalie, of Spain, who was Spain's representative at the Chicago World’s fair, wants separation from her husband. General Methuen was wounded ami captured, three officers and thirtyeight men were killed, and five officers and seventy-two men wounded, as a result of a night attack by Boers under Delarey upon a force of 1,200 British. The French chamber of deputies held Sunday sessions to dispose of the budget. The German chancellor, Count von Buelow, is suffering from influenza. Venezuela Ims yielded to the demands of Germany for the payment of claims due subjects of the kaiser. Russia is said to lie willing to withdraw from Manchura In eighteen months. The Chinese government lintj protested against the proposed re-enact-ment of the exclusion law by the United States. General Ma has been sent to Jehol to punish Chinese bandits who murdered a priest. The British chamber of commerce has asked the government to prevent the proposed American reclpricity with Cuba. British fear General Grenfell and his force of 1,30 V have been either defeated or captured by Delarey. The Danish parliament has ratified the sale of the D. W. I. to the United States. A number of engagements between Russian troops and Tunguse* have occurred in Manchuria during the last two months. THE CRIMINAL RECORD. One of three highwaymen was killed and another captured by two men they had robbed In Kansas. Henry 8. Piggott, a wealthy Philadelphia attorney, has been convicted of bigamy at Denver. Louis C. Wlthaup, a Denver pension attorney, was sentenced to five years In the Leavenworth penitentiary for forging signatures to pension checks. Luke Sanders, colored, was hanged at Marion, Ala., for the murder of Road Overseer Mullins. In a saloon near Rush Springs, I.

T„ Judge Green and James McGee, partners, quarreled, fought and killed each other. John F. Gaynor, who forfeited his bonds in the Carter conspiracy case, has been traced to Canada, and it la believed that he has sailed for Europe under an assumed name. In a fit of jealousy Mrs. Fred Goulding, of Davy, W. Va., shot her husband to death and then took her own life. James Wilcox has been indicted for the murder of Nelliie Cropsey at Elizabeth City, N. C. The teller of the National Traders’ bank of Portland, Me., has been arrested charged with embezzling $43,000. Safe crackers blew open the vault of the Farmers’ bank, of I’ownville, Pa., and stole between $7,000 and SB,OOO. BUSINESS AND INDUSTRIAL NOTES. W. E. Small & Co., stock brokers nnd members of the New York cotton exchange, with lieadquiV er« in Macon. Ga., and offices in Atlanta. Nashville and Chattanooga, have suspended. Speculation in eggs on the part of Its members is prohibited by a new rule of the New York mercantile exchange. The National Wagon Manufacturers’ association meeting, set for Memphis in April, has been postponed until October. David Grady, aged 53. of Orleans, Ind., a civil war veteran, committed suicide at Vincennes, Ind., by taking morphine. diaries Call, aged 20, shot and killed his only brother, George, aged 23, in a quarrel over a game of cards near Princeton, Mo. Freight handlers, teamsters and clerks at Boston struck to the number of 7,500, and threaten to tie up the entire freight transportation business of the city. The crews of the sealing ships going out from St. Johns, Nd., have struck for a larger share of the catch. Trenton, N. J., coachmen have agreed not to drive for Sunday funerals. The carriage makers, machinists, mattress makers, indoor wire workers and fuel handlers of Denver are out on strike. The season rate on lumber from ports at the head of the lakes to Lake Erie has been fixed at $2.50. The freight handlers at the Boston and Maine yards, at Boston, have been ordered to join the strike. Western roads have adopted rules restricting mileage tickets to the lines of the system issuing them. The board of directors of the Pennsylvania Railroad company has authorized the issue of $50,000,000 ot convertible, ten-year, 3% per cent, debentures. MISHAPS AND DISASTERS. August Wehner, said to have been employed by the Universal Publishing company of Chicago, and an unknown woman were found dead from asphyxiation in a rooming house at Milwaukee. An explosion in the Catsburg mine of tlie Monongahela River Consolidated Coal and Coke company resulted in the death of five men and serious injury of several others, two fatally. A Southern Pacific train was wrecked near Maxon, Tex., and tl is feared forty persons were killed or cremated. Fifteen dead have been accounted for. Twenty-eight were Injurd, four of whom may die. Ixirenzo Lantz, lb years old, who resides on the Truster farm near Warsaw, Ind., was thrown under the wheels of a Baltimore and Ohio through freight and decapitated. Fireman Albert Johnson was killed near Mexico. Mo., in a collision between two Chicago and Alton engines. Mrs. Mary Walsh, an aged woman, was burned to death in her cottage near the railroad depot at San Rafael. Cal. Mrs. Arthur I’ouchard and her nine children were burned to death at Mantanc, Que., in their home. Jennie Bales, Iff years old, daughter of A. Bales, was probably fatally burned at home, five miles south of Nevada, Mo. Jockey O’Connor was knocked senseless by the fall of his horse at Oakland. Mrs. Lindsley, an old resident, was burned to death at Rock Falls, Ills. Tidal waves on tlie Pacific coast of Central America have killed scores of people. NOTABLE DEATHS. Tarlton C. Miles, a leading veterinary surgeon of America and well known in Canada, England and France, is dead at Charleston, Ills. Rev. 8. K. Recd. the oldest Methodist minister as well as the oldest Odd Fellow in the United States, is dead at Champaign, Ills. Professor C. N. Brown, dean of the college of engineering at the Ohio state university, is dead at Columbus. George 11. Holland of St. lauilh, vice president of the Bridge-Beach Manufacturing company of that city, is dead. Dr. Christian Fenger of Chicago is dead of pneumonia after a brief illness. He was the father of modern pathological surgery in the west. David Sutton, aged 75 years, is dead in Richmond, Ind. He was one of the best-known and wealthiest members of the Society of Friends. Mrs. Sarah Jane Peffer, wife of exSenator W. A. Peffer of Kansas, is dead in Washington. William Lohmiller, one of the bestknown Independent telephone men of the northwest, is dead at LaCrosse, Wis. Former Governor John P. Altgeld died nt Joliet, ills., of ai>op)exy after an illness of alx hours. (Galloway Frazier, whose father was the first governor of the Chickasaw nation, is dead. THE FIRE HECOHU Fire at Hudson, N. Y„ burned the buildings and stock of live firms, at a total loss of $200,000. Fire which threatened to destroy Dublin, Ind., was brought under control through help from Cambridge City. Fire in the Novelty Iron works' plant, at Canton, O„ ruined the foundry and pattern house, causing a loss •f SIOO,OOO.