Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 January 1903 — WEEK’S NEWS RECORD [ARTICLE]

WEEK’S NEWS RECORD

Mrs. Wylie, the widow of Stephen C. Foster, the famous writer of old melodies. including “Ohl Folks at Home,’’ was probably fatally burned at Pittsburg. Wlrile sitting in front of an open fireplace the flames communicated to her clothing. The public library for which Andrew Carnegie gave $350,000 was dedicated at Washington with addresses by donor ami President Roosevelt. The former Said he had given 730 library buildings ami plans to donate 800 others now asked for. According to the report of tin® apptaiser appointed by the Superior Court in San Francisco to place a value upon the estate of the late Charles L. Fair, Mr. Fair was worth $3,040,187 at the time he ami his wife were killed in an automobile accident in France. 'Twelve persons were injured in a Jlre el^car.. jaiWsixm—aX-tlrrind-UArnniusumd Palm street, St. Lottis, one being hurt Internally. The accident was caused by an open emergency ■ switch throwing a north-bound ear to the other track in front of a swiftly moving southbound car. Fire in the Hotel Somerset in Chicago caused the loss of four lives —those of a mother and three daughters. - The Kames were confined to five rooms on the fifth floor, but they burned so fiercely for n fewTfunutes that the victims were liliable to <scape, three being overcome in the building, while the fourth jumped from a window and was killed. As a result of a rear-end collision between a passenger train and a freight train on the Pennsylvania Railroad at Cochrane station, just above Duquesne, Pa., seven men are dead, one fatally hurt, and live others are injured. Four of the men were rousted alive. The accident was caused by the carelessness of a freight brakeman. who has fled. Fnited Slates Marshal STiotip lias arrived at Seattle from Juneau with three Hoonah. Alaska, Indians, sentenced to four rears’ imprisonment in the 1 nited States penitentiary on McNeil's Island for causing the death of Indian Isaac, whom they claimed to be a witcli. They kept Isaac tied to a tree for five days, the exposure and hunger resulting in his death. David Thompson, one of the best known prospectors in the Black hills, over which country he has hunted gold for seventeen years, the other day struck a ledge of great richness, and after ten minutes of demonstrations .4 delight fell to the ground In a fit. A few moments later he was dead. An examination made Inter by physicians showed a blood vessel in the brain to have been ii.ptured, *