Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1902 — SUMMARY OF NEWS. [ARTICLE]

SUMMARY OF NEWS.

Miss Helen K. Wctzler, a pretty telephone operator at Toledo, is dead it ml her sudden death at first caused rumors of suicide. It develops she took some new headache powder. The remedy developed gastritis and death shortly ensued. Passengers on the last trip of the steamer Bertha from Alaska say the volcanoes Redoubt, lUnmmn and Augustine are in active eruption, (treat volumes of steatn issue from all three and Kedoubt is throwing clouds of smoke miles high. Captain W. A. Amlrevvs. who twice crossed the Atlantic in a fifteen-foot cockleshell boat, is drowned at last, and his new-made bride went down with him. The Probate Court of Suffolk County. Massachusetts, has officially pronounced the indomitable captain dead. Russia lias thrown down the gauntlet to England. The Czar has ordered the expulsion from Manchuria of tile British customs and postal officials employed by the Chinese government. This is the specific feature of a command sent to the Russian military governor of Manchuria through Paul I.essar, the Russian minister at I’ekin. An estate estimated to lie worth $4.000,000 was left by Bradford B. Me* (iregor (son of the late Standard Oil magnate), who died at Mamaroueek. N. Y., after a surgical operation. Me(lregor is said to have signed his will just before death, and the document is said to transfer to his death-lied bride, who was Miss Clara Schlenuner of New York, the bulk of the property. Tlie main building of the Ottawa. Kan., University, the pride of the Baptist denomination in the West, and its contents were destroyed by tire. The building had just bet'ii completed, after twelve years in construction, at a total cost of $50,000. The total insurance is $20,000. The college library, consisting of 4,000 volumes, was also destroyed. The origin of the fire is a mystery. The safe in the postoffiee at Sharon Center, Ohio, was blown open with dynamite. A few dollars in money and some stumps were taken. The noise of the explosion awakened Frank Bowers, who lives opposite the postoffiee. lie shot at the robbers several times and they returned the fire, but none of the shots took effect The burglars escaped. The safe in the postoffiee at Chester, Ohio, was also blown by cracksmen, who secured a small sum of money ami a large amount of stamps. Following is the standing of tic clubs of thi National Baseball League: W. E. W. E. Pittsburg ...1)0 .'ill St. L0ui5....55 04 Brooklyn ...0(5 57 Chicago 50 Mi Boston 01 BN Philadelphia. 40 71 Cincinnati ..00 01 New Y0rk...45 70 The duhs of the American League stand as follows: W. L. W. L. Philadelphia 70 40 Cleveland ...05 50 St. Louis. ...OS 51 Washington. 54 OS Boston 08 52 Detroit 40 72 Chicago ....04 51 Baltimore ...40 71