Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 April 1903 — WEEK’S NEWS RECORD [ARTICLE]

WEEK’S NEWS RECORD

'An attachment amounting to $1,600,000 has been aerved on the United Shoe Machinery Company in a suit inatituted by Harry E. Cillcy of Boston in the “United States District Court in Boston. Cilley claims damages for infringement bf patent. > The Walters Hotel at Washington, Ind., burned, the fire being of incendiary origin. Twenty guests barely escaped with their lives. Harry Kramer, a railroad man, carried Mrs. John Harlan from the building after the had been overcome by smoke. Mrs. Lucy Trainor jumped from the second-story window with her boy in her arms. Admiral Coglilan has ordered the Capture or sinking of the Tatanibula, formerly a tug, now a converted gunboat in the service of the government of Spanish Honduras, ns the result of the forcible detention of the Norwegian steamer David, a merchantman in command of Captain Wnrnecke, which arrived in New Orleans from Ceiha, Honduras. The champion athlete of Hamlin University, Rev. Paul ltader, is in danger of losing his sight ns the result of injury received in n game of football ln£t fall. Mr. Rader has gone to Chicago to visit n brother who is connected with one of the hospitals in that dty and advise with him ns to treatment. Mr. Under is pastor of Asbury Methodist Church, In St. Paul.

Peter Veregin, the lender of the Dukhobors, has been in Winnipeg to purchase horses for his countrymen in the Swan River colony. The Dukhobors, Recording to his story, are losing all their old-time nversion to animals and machinery, and desirous of adopting Canadian customs. Another important reform he reports is that the Dukhobors are entering for homesteads. Lord, Owen & Co., one of the oldest wholesale drug firms in the West, is bankrupt. The firm confessed insolvency In the United States District Court in Chicago. The liabilities nro fixed at. >762,730 and the assets at >315,537. The members of the firm, each holding a onethird intercut, are Thomas and George S. Lord of Evanston and James It. Owen. The individual debts of Thomas Lord are placed at $37,525 and his assets at $124, ~ 600. George Lord says he Owes $107,250 on his own account and has about $121,480 assets, Mr. Owen schedules no Individual delfts, and claims exemption for hia only assets —$100 worth of wear-' Ing apparel, $250 in cash and a $5,000 life insurance policy. Among the largest creditors of the partnership whose names are given in the schedules are: The Rankers’ National Rank, for $80,000; Harvey B. llurd of’Evanston, for sllO,840; W. T. Richards & Co., for $102,500; John P. Iloliingshead & Co. of New York, for SIOO,OOO, and the Mercantile National Rank of New York, for $25,000.