Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1903 — CIRCLING THE GLOBE [ARTICLE]

CIRCLING THE GLOBE

An engagement between T urk Ixli x troops and a bund of revolutionists is reported to have taken place in the Monastir district of European Turkey. Both aides suffered considerable los.vs. Ten Turkish officers are said to huve been killed. A riot in which 202 persons were injured and three officers of infantry killed took place during the strike of the seamen at Kronstadt* says n dispatch from Bt. Feterfburg. The strikers became violent and the soldiers were called out to quell them. The fishing schooner Gloriana, from ' Gloucester. Mass., went ashore at Thrum Cape, N. 8., and was broken up. Captain George Stoddart nnd fourteen men. out of eighteen comprising tlie crew were drowned. Most of the crew were natives of the British province. John H. Costello, a mining operator and oil man, was shot by his wife in Buffalo, X. Y. Two shots were fired. One took effect iff the right shoulder. The chances are in favor of recovery. Costello is one of the best known and wealthiest men in Buffalo. The Philippine connni: sion has put a premium on matrimony by making an increase of sls (gold) per month in the salary allowances of married officers of the constabulary. The increase is for Commutation of quarters. There are ninny bachelors oil the force. By a decision of the County Surrogate at Buffalo, Mrs. Alice Hall Burdick will get the custody of her three children. The Surrogate declared null and void the provision in Mr. Burdick’s will which directed that the children' should be under thi> guardianship of his executors. Walter S. Bromton, aged 31, city solicitor and prominent in politics in Kentucky, shot himself accidentally at Lexington, I\y. He was packing a grip preparatory to going to Richmond. In transferring a revolver from a drawer to the grip it fell, struck the dresser aud was discharged, the'bullet entering the stomach. I’hineas Ballard, janitor of the First National Bank, of Charlotte, Mich., wfts found in a dying condition at the bank, having been shot twice through the body with a revolver kept in the paying teller's cage. The lock to the rear door was unfastened, indicating that some one had parsed out. The theory of suicide is also advanced, ns nothing was taken.. The Agricultural Department of the United Slates government is about to undertake to demonstrate to the farmers in the Yakima valley of Washington Hint many thousand acres of alkali lands in that vicinity can be reclaimed and within two years made the most valuable agricultural lands in the section. Similar demonstrations are to be made in other parts of the country. Rev. Frederick C. Wellncr wns acquitted of the charge of murdering James K. Hatfield, a young man of Kirby Knob, Ky., employed by Weiluer as a farm hand near Miltonvillc. Ohio. The State charged that Wellncr fraudulently placed $2,000 insurance on Hatfield's life in favor of Mrs. Wellncr, and then killed him with a club. The defense contended that Hatfield met his death by being run over by a farm wagon. The clubs in tho National League are standing thus: W. L. W. 1,. New York. .10 4 Brooklyn .. .. 8 X Pittsburg ...12 oCincinnati ... 7 0 Boston ..... 8 7 St. Louis.... (V 11 Chicago .... 0 8 Philadelphia. 5 12 Following is the standing of the elSbs in the American League: W. 1.. W. L. Chicago .... !) 3 Detroit 0 (5 New York.. 7 (i St. Louis...*. 4 5 Philadelphia. 8 7 Washington.. 5 7 Boston 7 7 Cleveland ... 2 7