Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 September 1903 — SUMMARY OF NEWS [ARTICLE]

SUMMARY OF NEWS

A large Mire raged in Piqua, Ohio. It started in the heart of the business section of the city. The Daniels block, the largest business building in the city, was destroyed. The Plaza Hotel was threatened and there was a panic among the guests. The loss will reach close to $150,000. Chas. .Tones, a 12-year-old negro boy, confessed that he murdered Caroline Link, whoso death has been a mystery in Baltimore, Md., for over a week. He climbed the back fence into the store and struck her on the back of the head with a club. He stole a piece of taffy and disappeared. According to the latest reports received from Bogota, the Hay-Harran cannl treaty is now generally regarded in the capital as dead and buried, and it is declared that the United States might as well turn seriously to negotiations with Nicaragua. On the isthmus the people have lost all hope. The big Cripple Creek, Colo., district drainage tunnel calculated to drain the mining area to a depth of 250 feet below the present water level, admitting of deeper mining, is completed. As soon as the last round of shots was fired water gushed out of the mouth of the tunnel at 4,000 gallons a minute. An important find of iron ore has been made on the Mesaba range east of Biwabik, Minn., on lands owned by the IxH’gyear-Mesaba Land Company, of which J. M. Longyear, the Marquette mau who is moving his mansion from that city to Bosjon, is the head. The new find is in a tract lying south of the Miller mine. In Topeka, Kan., Judge Hazen senfenced Mine Operators John Jack and John Bell to jail until such a period as they might conclude to ans wer the questions of the attorneys in the coal trust inquiry. The men had refused to testify on the theory that it might incriminate them. The prisoners will appeal to the Supreme Court. Candy-making has practically ceased in Chicago. In a few obscure places the workers are still on duty, but the big plants, where great machines turn out bits of sugar and nuts as confectionery, have either stopped operations or will close down to-night. The fight is beginning in the same manner as the long, bitter laundry strike. The clubs in the National League are standing thus: W. L. W. L. Pittsburg ...83 40 Brooklyn ..,.01 60 New Y0rk...74 40 Boston 52 71 Chicago 73 50 Philadelphia. .39 76 Cincinnati ...64 57 St. Louis 41 84 Following is the standing of the clubs in the American League: \V. L. W. L. Boston 78 42 Detroit 59 58 Cleveland 1..69 55 St. Louis.... .57 6-1 New York... 61 54 Chicago 54 65 Philadelphia. .62 56 Washington.. .37 83 George Brandt shot and killed his wife and mother-in-ia w the other night. The women were living a>t the farmhouse of Mrw. Mary Murphy, the mother-in-law, six miles from Spring Green, Wis. Brandt and his wife had been living apart for the last two or three years. A 12-year-old son of Brandt was the sole witness to the murders. From his story the man crept upon Mrs. Murphy as she sat on the jmrcli of the farmhouse and killed her with a shot from behind. Then he ran down to the barn, where his wife was attending to the stock, ansi shot her, too, by creeping on her without being seen. Both women dropped dead at the shots. The boy, fearing he ■would be killed, hid and did not stir until Brandt had left the place. Then he went iti the darkness to Spring Green and reported the tragedy. A posse found Brandt in a bam on a neighboring farm. He had scars on his forehead as though he had attempted suicide. He admitted the murders. Doubts of his sanity are expressed.