Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1902 — WEEK’S NEWS RECORD [ARTICLE]

WEEK’S NEWS RECORD

Ralph D. Clark, Joseph White and William Beacon were killed by a train on the Philadelphia and Reading Railway at Langhorne, Pa. Clark and White were painters employed by the Reading company, and Beacon wai a colored resident of Langhorne. The Wayne Circuit Court handed down a decision holding that the savings depositors of the wrecked City Savings Bank of Detroit must be preferred over the commercial depositors in the distribution of the money to be .realized from the. sale of the bank's real estate investments. Efforts are being made to form a combination of over a score of the wholesale grocery firms throughout Ohio and Michigan. Options have been secured on the majority of the leading houses in the two States, and the promoters of the combination are confident of Hie success of the project. A report from Parral, Mexico, says that Charles Gilbert Webb, who was recently captured there by Postoffice Inspector Fredericks of Denver and an El Paso detective, is no longer in jail, but that the suspect’s brother, I .ester Webb, has in some mysterious manner substitutes! himself for the prisoner. Fire swept through the Adams Express Company's freight house and the freight offices of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company in Chicago. The damage to the buildings will not amount to more than $3,000. Express freight, valued at $25,000, was put in jeopardy mid a large amount of if wasdamaged by water. Two scrubwomen prevented a wholesale jail delivery at Kokomo, Ind. Guy Neff. Bert Lackey and Bert Lewis, reputed leaders of a gang of thieves, took advantage of the absence of Sheriff liarnews and with saws slipped to them in pies sawed off their cell bars. 'Hie women held the crowd at bay till the door could be locked. The schooner S. G. Dunn reached Oswego, N. Y., after a perilous trip on Lake Ontario, the crew facing death for many hours. The Dunn, which is in command of Captain William Wakely, was bound from Fairhaven to Toronto with a cargo of coal. Soon after leaving Fairhaven water began to come into the hold and gained so fast that it could not be kept down with the two pumps. Captain Wakely succeeded in working his way to Oswego with his sinking boat, and a tug responded to his signals of distress when a few miles away. The Dunn went to the bottom as soon as she reached the dock.