Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1903 — WEEK’S NEWS RECORD [ARTICLE]

WEEK’S NEWS RECORD

, Tornadoes took three lives in Kansas, wiped out Aliceville and destroyed nine house* near Hamilton. Six more victims were reported dying und ten others injured. At Hmaha a windstorm blew down the new Union Pacific shops, killing one man. The submarine torpedo boat Shark, during a tTial at Greenport, rammed the torpedo boat Dahlgren. The latter, with her crew of seven men, barely escaped •inking. The quick work of the thirtyseven officers and Jackies at Greenport aaved the Dahlgren. The War Department has received the following cablegram front Gov. Taft: ‘•Gov: Betts reports the surrender to 001. Bandholtz of the constabulary of thirty-three more rifles at Ligao, Albay, making 100 in all. Trouble in the province is reported at an end.” Frank and Thomas Hehus, brothers, 43 and 24 years old respectively, and William Oonn, 41 years old, died in Philadelphia from the effects of wood alcohol. They procured a quantity of wood alcohol from a drug store and with lemon and sugar made a punch of the extract. A terrific storm swept over the Baltic and North Sehs and a number of maritime casualties are reported. The steamer Finsburg foundered in the North Sea and her crew of thirteen were drowned. The bark Clara went down off the coast of Schleswig and her crew of twelve were lost. Russia has notified Chinn that, she will not evacuate Manchuria unless all her demanda, presumably the eight points submitted some months ogo, are complied with. This may endanger the American commercial treaty and render the mucb-talked-of war with Japan measurably nearer. Football as a high school game was officially discountenanced at a meeting of the Board of Education in Fremont, Neb. A resolution was passed charging the superintendent and teachers hereafter to give It no encouragement. The city has heretofore been represented by ono of the strongest tenant in the State. General J. P. Sanger, latterly in charge of the census work in the Philippines, has arrived from Manila. As n result of the census work the government is in possession of 7,00),000 names, representing the civilized portion of the native population of the Inlands. The uncivilized population is placed at about 000,000. N. E. Hammond, alias Bell, who is in St. Anthony’s Hospital in Denver, Col., has made a confession covering all the crimes with which he stands charged. Bell ia nccused of having committed numerous forgeries, swindles and mailpouch robberies over the country, his operations aggregating something like 3500,000. The Supreme Court in Lincoln, Neb., broke the will of Robert Hawke, of Nebraska City, and thereby confirmed to Charles Ford Seovill, of Chicago, the $40,000 devised to Minnie Hawke, a daughter. Minnie Hawke married Scovill, but died without i&ute soon after ht«T father. The will provided in such event that Mrs. Seovill’s share should revert to the other heirs. The Supreme Court ignores this clause. An international sympathy strike, affecting the 00,000 organized bridge and structural iron workers in the United States and Canada, is scheduled to be called in a few weeks. Pittsburg will contribute 3,000 men, completely tying up all bridgo niM structural work tliero and throwing out of employment thousands of men of other crafts in the city. The strike is to be in sympathy with the fight of the New York members against the Cornell Construction Company, members of the big combine.