Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1903 — WEEK'S NEWS RECORD [ARTICLE]

WEEK'S NEWS RECORD

'Hie explosion M a lamp inlthe engine room of the svu/ner Pfohl In khe middle of Lake Iliirol A*g««d x 4 v Cre which after an eight hour»\fight' causedJfhe crew of the vessel to tnKLJo jW* Jlfkboatn. The Pfoiil sank within (HflHror. The vessel was QoderlchjAngL Three JKre| t it, been loaded car’s nmlihree empties crashed into the dinkey, ft : is* W<n known how the wserf'fit; Fkhnrf* fc>inii- ' j§ai tnfttfrfng bt Tlou&fiton* Ford ft Co., wkich*recetitly ckined’its doors at Burton, Ohio, filed- n'Schedule of assets in the United States District Court. The assets are said to be $1,1(51,204. This amount is greatly in excess of the liabilities alleged, according to the report filed in the name-court. The liabilities were given at $008,822. Because his wife had deserted him twenty-three times, Samuel finders of Joplin, Mo., has filed suit against her for divorce. In ids petition finders states that he has been put to great inconvenience and expense in prevailing upon his wife to return to him after each of the other twenty-two desertions, and that "patience has at last ceased to be a virtue.”

A big waterapout is reported n few miles west of Omaha, Neb. Five hundred feet of Burlington track is said to have been washed out. There has been a heavy ruinfull throughout eastern Nebraska and southwestern lowa. Wasfiouta are reported on the Burlington near Hastings, town, nud between Omaha and Lincoln, and on the Union I’acific at Pa pillion.

An official dispatch from Aden, Arabia, gives details of the desperate encounter wliich took" place at Burritli, Somaliland, between an Abyssinian force opurptiug in conjunction with the Britigh/pguinst tlie Mail Mullab nnd a large force of the latter’s dervishes. After a haibl-to-hand tight lasting forty-five miuutfl'(4lie derVishei were driven off with the-,'. Ifias of 30 men killed and two wogaded.

With the death of Henry F\ Brown, or rpid Caribou Brown,” as lie was known, there passed away one of tlie meet picturesque characters in all 'the froßtier history of the great Southwest. Brown was for a quarter of a century onc-of tlie most notable figures in the gambling circles of Tucson, Ariz. He inai)<e and lost a dozen fortunes over the gaiirbling table, but throughout his ehdHkered career he maintained the unme of b&tig honest.

A'tornado with force enough to twist the main elevators of the Frank mill from its foundations, demolish small buildings and crush in platcglais fronts, visited Merrill, lowa. News has reached Topeka from Horton, Knn.j of visitation of n tornado at that point. The Unjou Hotel was unroofed and tbe livery stable of George Sprague aniEfhe blacksmith shop of Moose Bros. bld*m k "avvny. Several smaller buildings netfiqfqif little value, were also destroyed. two persons were injured, but it is tVought not fatally. Kbs in the National League are W. L. W. L. •k.. .18 8 d&innati ....14 15 .....20 9 Boston 12 13 , . .18 13 Philadelphia, i 9 19 .... 14 14 St. Louis..... 8 22 Following is tbe standing of the clubs in the American League: W. L. IV. 1,. Cb%go 15 1« Boston 18 PM&iiefpliiu.. 15 12 Ht. Louis 11 11 Detroit 13 12 Washington.-. 9 16 “Death at the hands of persons unknown,” lias been the coroner's verdict its three mysterious murder cases at KoKomo, lnd., tlie last being when Coroner Harrison made this findipg in the earfe of Louis Yeacev, Who Was found detas{Jn his liuggy with a bullet in the brail). Yeager was killed while returning from visiting bis betrothed. Myrtle Finley of ■ Hemlock. Two weeks ago Fr.i|kdß But ton was likewise slain at iicnttbc-k. after visiting his sweetheart; BteWv ’Peters. A few weeks ago Jacob Dotterer of the same locality was murdi rqd at bis linme.