Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1903 — AROUND THE WORLD [ARTICLE]

AROUND THE WORLD

James T. Metcalf, chief of the money order division of the l’ostofflce Department, haa been summarily dismissed for attempting to persuade the lowest bidder for a contract to withdraw, leaving the coivpany that now has the contract the lowest bidder.

I<otiia T. Derousse, postmaster of Camden, N. J., liaa disappeared. Two postal Inspectors arrived at the post office in that city the other morning and began work on hia accounts. This was not completed that night. Derousse vanished about midday.

It has developed that an effort was wade recently to bribe former Lieut. Gov. John A. Lee of Missouri to remain out of the State. The grand jury has information that he was offered SI,OOO to stay out of Missouri when ho was at Chicago in April.

George Eaton, cashier in W. Wellington Company's bank at Corning. N, V., was arrested by Deputy l nited States Marshal Sanford Deved on the charge of attempting to bribe Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Taylor. The treasury official, it is said, had charge of the matter of selecting a site for the new federal building at Corning. The Standard Oil Company has raised the price of oil in South Dakota 1 cent a gallon to counteract tlie effect of the law passed by the South Dakota legislature, requiring a test for kerosene. It is estimated that this will greatly increase the profits of the company over and above the value of the oil which may be rejected under the test. Throe months’ imprisonment in the county jail was tlie punishment meted out to John J. Kelly, Harry O’Donovan and Hiram B. Sherman, judges of election, by Judge Carter of Chicago, who found them guilty of contempt of court for what he termed the most flagrant misbehavior at the ballot box that had ever come to his notice.

Ralph Easley, secretary of the Na= tionnl Civic Federation, narrowly escaped death over a precipice while climbing Pike's Peak, Colorado. With rare presence of mind he grasped the tail of a burro, and fortunately tlie animal jumped quickly and pulled him out of death’s clutches. Mr. Easley retains a bunch of hair from the tail of the burro.

While Asleep in n room of her parents’ home near Winona. Mo.. Della Jolmagn. » years old, was killed !>y an unidentified misassin. The murderer crept into the room with an ax and almost severed her head from the body. The child s brother heard the blows and rushed in. when the assassin struck him and a stniggle in the dark followed, the hoy finally falling to the floor from exhaustion. There is no more clew to the motive of the crime than to the perpetrator.

Showmen kiduaped tl year-old John Layton of East St. I-otiis, stained Ilia okin, stripped him of clothing and raged him with monkeys and other animals to make hint a “wild boy.” When tlie child escaped or was released because be did not aeein to develop rapidly into a “wild boy,” he was found by a policeman and Identified Sylvester Maker, n negro, as the inau who bad placed him in the animal cage. Maker has been taken to Belleville to prevent lynching. The clubs in the National League are standing thus: W. L. W. L. New Y0rk...515 15Cincinnati ...21 20 Pittsburg . .-.80 17 Boston 20 lit) Chicago 04 It) Philadelphia .15 00 Brooklyn ....25 24 St. Louis 15 38 Following Is the standing of the club* In the American League: W. L. W. L. Philadelphia. 01 18 Chicago .. .21 23 Boston 20 'lO New York 21'"23 Cleveland .. .25 20 Detroit 20 2« St. L0ui5....21 21 Washington ..14 32