Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1902 — WEEK’S NEWS RECORD [ARTICLE]

WEEK’S NEWS RECORD

J. Charles Collins, nt one time a highly successful artist, wee found dead is bis room at his boarding house in New York. The coroner’s verdict is that death -was due to the accidental turning of a gas jet, the escaping gas killing the artist as he slept. Lieut. Peary announces that he hat decided never again to return to the North. He will not make another attempt to find the pole. He said that the pole can be found by following his plans and that if it ever is found it will be found in that way. Couty Treasurer Wm. O. Thompson, charged with embezzling county funds to the amount of $73,57(1, was arrested at York, Pa., and placed under $50,000 bail. Thompson was arrested on ten specific charges, n warrant having bee if sworn' out on each offense. Harry Stratton of Pasadena, Cal., after a conference between bls attorneys, decided to contest the will of his father, .Winfield S. Stratton, which left the bulk of his estate, estimated to be worth from SIO,(KXt,(XX) to $12,000,000, for the establishment of a home for poor sick people nt Colorado Springs. A fire which broke out shortly before 1 o'clock Tuesday morning in the large clothing store of Louis Saks, at Birmingham, Ala., burned until 4 o’clock, destroying the three-story building and its contents. The loss is $240,000, with $190,000 insurance. A spark from a live (dectric wire on the third floor caused the fire.

Four men are dead, three of them unidentified, and their faces and bodies so badly burned and blackened that identification is almost imistssible, and five Others are lying in different wards at the Miners' hospital in Fairmont, W- Va., suffering from cuts, bruises, and other injuries as a result of a gas explosion at a coal shaft located at Stafford. Several members of Daniel McCook's brigade, which played a conspicuous part in the campaign of the federal army around Atlanta, have purchased nixty acres in the vicinity of the “dead angle,” at Kenesaw Mountain, where/they ma'de their famous assaidt upon the Confederate forces when (leu. McCook was killed, and will found a park there. A tornado passed over the southern part of Grant County, Indiana, leaving desolation in a path two miles wide. Farm buildings and all crops were destroyed and many persons injured, but so far as is known no lives are lost. The country home of Daniel Haines was destroyed, as was also his granary and barn, containing thousands of dollars' worth of grain and stock. The Chicago Pipe Line Company. Standard Oil Company and Jonesboro Mining Company lost thousands of dollars’ worth of oil and gas property.

.Following is the standing of the clubs of the National Baseball League: W. L. W. L. Pittsburg ..I<M) 34 Chicago 64 09 Brooklyn ...72 00 St. Louis....lW 72 Boston 07 01 Philadelphia. 53 78 Cincinnati . .66 07 New Y0rk...45 82 The clubs of the American League stand as follows: W. L. W. L. Philadelphia 83 51 Cleveland ...08 05 St. L0ui5....75 50 Washington. 59 75 Chicago ....73 57 Detroit 50 82 Boston 74 00 Baltimore ...50 85