Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 June 1903 — CIRCLING THE GLOBE [ARTICLE]

CIRCLING THE GLOBE

Four negro men and one negro woman killed, eight or ten badly beaten and moat of the other negroes in the community ordered to leave is the result of the shooting front ambush of Mr. Craft and the wounding of Mr. Boyls by negroes at Forest, Miss. One of the most notable weddings of the year took place in St. Paul’s Lpiscopal Church, Cleveland, when Miss Until Hanna, daughter of Senator M. A. Hanna, was united in marriage with Joseph Medill McCormick of Chicago. President Itoosevelt was a guest. John Winkler. Johu Shook. S. E. Rebam ami (’lark Fisher werej killed by lightning near Sterling, Ohio. The men were framing a barn and, carrying a heavy limiter on their shoulders when lightning struck tire beam and tore it to splinters, killing the four men instantly. The Hreakprs, the second largest hotel at Palm Beach, Fla., was destroyed by fire. The hotel building, power house, Cory’s block of stores, flip Casino, south of the hotel, and one of the large cottages north of the hotel were burned. Total loss *BOO,OOO. The origin of the fire is unknown. News has come of a cloudburst near Clifton, Ariz. A wall of water eight feet high rushed down Chase creek. Several bodies have been recovered, and it is believed the number of drowned will reach twenty. Chase Creek was inhabited mostly by Mexicans employed by the Arizona Copper Company. Russia has given notice through its Washington embassy that it will not receive any protest from n foreign nation against the massacre of Jews at Kbhineff. In addition the announcement was made that no relief raised in America or elsewhere would he permitted to reach the families of Kishincff victims. Frightened by the approach of n big automobile, a horse driven by John D. Tanges, a wealthy resident of Greenlawn, L. 1., swerved from the road, upsetting the earl, and Mrs. Tanges was thrown into a ditch and killed. Tanges and his wife were in a dog cart, and on the way home from Huntington. In a spirit of playful warning, James Smith, 14-year did son of John Wesly Smith, a wealthy farmer, of Coshocton, Ohio, pointed a gun at his two brothers, and by the accidental discharge of one barrel both of the lads were killed. Albert, aged 10, dietl instantly, and Eugene,- aged 10, was blinded and fatally wounded. A Rig Four train was wrecked at the Muscat uck bridge near North Vernon, I ml., by colliding with a runaway section of another train. Trainmen saw the runaway appnroaehing, and to avoid meeting it on tlie trestle, which is 85 feet high, put on all speed. They had barely reached the other side nttd jumped when tlie crash came. No lives were-lost. The clubs in the National League are standing thus: W. L. W. L. New York... 52 l.'l Cincinnati ....10 -1 Chicago ■'{•‘l 15 Boston 17 20 Pittsburg 17 Philadelphia.. 12 .'ll Brooklyn ....24 22 St. Louis 1.1 15 Following is the standing of the clubs in the American League: \Y\ L. • W. L. Boston 20 17 Chifago 22 20 Philadelphia. .20 17 Detroit 20 22 St. Louis... .21 “10 New Y0rk....17 21 Cleveland ....22 17 Washington.. .11 31