Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1902 — EVENTS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

EVENTS OF THE WEEK

Another of the great Chicago apartment buildings, the Vincennes, at Vinrennes avenue and Thirty-sixth street, has been destroyed by fire, and many tenants barely escaped with their lives. The loss is $150,000, and it is covered by insurance.

A new record for a long-distance run up grade was made on the Burlington road. The second section of passenger train No. 3, with three cars, made 112 miles from Akron to the Denver union depot in 120 minutes. The entire 112 miles is up grade. Three earthquakes reduced to ruins Quesaltenango, the second city of importance in Guatemala, having 25,000 inhabitants. and destroyed the town of Amatitian. It is reported that 500 persons were killed but the rumor lacks confirmation. Mrs. Sarah Lynch, 75 years old, was found dead in the.rear of her home in Cleveland, and her husband, Martin Lynch, «0 years old, is under arrest, charged with the murder. The woman was shot through the temple. Lynch •was covered with blood and was drunk.

A fire that originated in the office of Dr. John Hunter destroyed half a dozen residences and small stores at Wigsville. Ohio, entailing n loss of $25,000. The insurance is said to be small. The village had no fire protection, The i*>stoflice and the mail therein was destroyed. Plans have been made by the South Chicago Furnace Company for the erection of a steel mill to cost $2,000,000 on the company’s ground on the Calumet river, in connection with its present large plant. The new mill will give employment to 2,000 men anil be one of the best equipped of its kind in the country. The body of Patrick ('larkin, one of the pioneers of St. Patti, Minn,, was discovered face downward in a pool of water in West St. Paul. After thorough investigation Coroner Miller reported death due to a rupture of a blood vessel caused by external violence. (Harkin's watch was missing, but a little loose change was in his pockets. The affair is mysterious. A burglar in Jersey City caused great amusement by breaking into a house hatbbring a smallpox patient. He gave his name ns James ('otter. Entrance was effected through the basement, and Cotter was leisurely prowling about when the daughter of the smallpox victim heard him ami attracted an officer by screaming. Cotter will be strictly quarantined for twenty-one days. Cruel and inhuman treatment will be the plea of Thomas Foley of English, Ind., for divorce. His wife admits that she tied his hands and feet while he was drunk and applied salt to his hands, face and clothing, that the cattle in the field where he lay helpless might lick him to death, as a revenge for a beating she received during a drunken orgy. Foley’s skin was raw in many places and his clothing in shreds. Following is the standing of the clubs of the National Baseball League: VV. L. W. L. Pittsburg ... 5 O Brooklyn .... 3 4 Philadelphia. 5 1 Boston 2 5 Chicago .... 4 1 Cincinnati . . 1 5 New York... 3 3 St. Louis.... O 4 The clubs of the American League stand as follows: W. I*. W. L. Chicago .... 1 O Boston 1 1 St. Louis.... 1 oßaltimore ... 0 2 Philadelphia. 1 O Cleveland ... b 1 Washington.. 1 0 Detroit 0 1