Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1902 — SUMMARY OF NEWS. [ARTICLE]

SUMMARY OF NEWS.

The explosion of a gasoline engine at the mines of Jacob Sliiro, an individual operator at Short Mountain, Pa., wrecked the power house and destroyed the breaker and storage house. The loss will amount to thousands of dollars, partially insured. Miss Mabel Wells of Monticello, Minn., and Eva Sasker and Laura T. Tye. both of Faribault, were drowned in latke Jefferson. Their bout was capsized during a storm. Profs, Bingham and Hanson of Minneapolis were with them, but could not save them. Goldie Lake, aged 10, who was kidnaped, it is claimed, by Mrs. Peter Itasmus, her grandmother, from the Auburn Children's Home at Cincinnati, three years ago, has been found at Youngstown, Ohio, after being traced to Detroit, through Canada and back to Ohio. Fire in the plant of the Thomas J. Lipton Company at the Union stock yards in Chicago caused a loss of $22f»,000. It was vicious while it lasted. The entire contents of warehouse “B” were destroyed, only the walls of the building remaining. The tire is'supposed to have been caused by crossed electric wires. A dispatch from Tarbes, France, gives news of a terrible fire at Lourdes, the town famous for its shrine to Our Lady, to which many pilgrims go. The tire brigade was unable to check the Hames, and, when the dispatch was sent, an entire block of houses had been destroyed and a number of persons had been victims of the tire. Charles Preble, a prominent farmer and stockman residing near Lanham, Neb., made three attempts to commit suicide before succeeding. He first tried to shoot himself through the heart, but the bullet, the last one in the revolver, failed to strike a vital spot. He then leaped into a fifty-foot well, but was rescued by relatives. Later he took the rope from the well .yid hanged himself from a rafter in the barn. Following is the standing of the clubs of the National Basebull Ixuigue: W. L. W. L. Pittsburg ...i>o 2*l Cincinnati .. .36 44 Brooklyn . . ,4!t 39 St. Louis. .. .37 4*l Boston 41 37 Philadelphia. 35 49 Chicago ... .44 4t> New York.. .27 54 The clubs of,the American League stand as follows: W. L. YV. L. Chicago ....44 35 Washington. 40 42 Boston 40 37 Baltimore ...37 45 Philadelphia 42 34 Cleveland . . .37 47 St. L0ui5....43 30 Detroit 32 -J 5