Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1902 — EVENTS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

EVENTS OF THE WEEK

Mrs. A. K. 11. Patchen, of Buffalo, N. Y„ a member of an old aristocratic family of the Empire State, dropped dead in San Francisco. A candle, which she was carrying when death overtook her, ignited her clothing, burning the body somewhat. The bodies of John W. Kirby, a farmer, and wife were found in bed at their home, three miles north of Burden, Kan. Each had a bullet hole through the head and a revolver with two empty chambers was lying on the man’s body. All indications point to suicide. Charles (lurdner, who was kidnaped by two tramps ten years ago, when 1- years old, from his home near Quincy, 111., met his father in Wichita, Ivan., by accident. Young Gardner says the tramps took him to Fort Worth, Texas, where he was conijadled to beg. He finally escaped. Joseph Abelo and Morgan Davidson, members of the Fifth battery, Field Artillery. T'. S. A., were killed at the Presidio, San Francisco, by the caving in of a clay bank on which they were working. Abele was a resident of Cherry vale, Kan., and Davidson of Big Creek, Ivy. On the body of a woman floating in the bay at St. Michael’s, Alaska, drafts and gold to the amount of $15,000 have been found. The ’body was identified as that of a woman known in Lower Yukon ns “Becky.” The money was turned over to the federal authorities, while an effort is made to trace her heirs. T. F. Kirby shot and killed his son, J. W. Kirby, in loin, Kan., as the result of a quarrel. The father says that he shot in self-defense, as he was attacked with n razor. Another soil, who was the only witness to the shooting, refuses to discuss it. The dead boy had been drinking and started the trouble by abusing bis father and brother. Fred Herron, white, and Hubert Johnson, a negro, prisoners in the county jail ut Leavenworth, Kan., overpowered the guard and escaped. They entered the house of Carl Gitseh, on a farm four miles south of the city, held a pistol to liis head, and demanded his money. A young son of Gitseh came downstairs with a shotgun and shot and killed Herron. Johnson tied and has not been captured. The steamer City of Venice was struck and sent to tin 1 bottom of Lake Erie in fifteen minutes by the Canadian steamer Sequin off Point Hondeau. Three of the Venice's crew went down with their ship. The lost steamer was bound down Lake Erie from Lake Superior with a cargo of 2,500 tons of iron ore. Many of the passengers of the ill-fated ship jumped overboard in the panic following the collision, but were saved. Following is the standing of the dubs of the National Baseball League: W. L. W. L. Pittsburg .. .155 20 Cincinnati ...40 4t' Brooklyn ...50 42 St. Louis... .4 V 49 Chicago . . . .4S 41 Philadelphia. ”<> 54 Boston 11 40 New York.. .2* 00 The clubs of the American League stand as follows: W. L. W. L. Chicago ....50 3(5 Cleveland ...42 40 St. Louis.. ..47 OS Washington . -11 4S Boston 40 41 Baltimore . . .MS 51 Philadelphia 44 38 Detroit 57 47 In a collision between a freight train and u work train on the Chicago, Milwau - kee and St. Paul Itailway, four miles east of Collins, lowa, eleven men were killed outright, two have since died and about thirty were injured seriously. The trains came together in a deep cut and on a sharp curve, when it was impossible for either engineer to see the other train more than three or four ear lengths away. Each train was making good speed, the freight to make up lost time out and the work train to reach a point to meet the freight. The flat ears on which the laborers rode were telescoped and the men thrown in all directions and buried under the debris. It is said the wreck was due to a misunderstanding of orders on the part ot the conductor of the work train.