Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1903 — CIRCLING THE GLOBE [ARTICLE]

CIRCLING THE GLOBE

In a collision between two north-bound South Side railroad trains at the Fifty-first Btreet station in Chicago one guard was fatally hurt nnd several of the passengers seriously injured. The fog and the frost on the rails were reaponuible for the accident. At a prison reform meeting at Wilmington, Del., Warden A. S. Moserve, of the county workhouse, declared the whipping post, which now exists only in Delaware, to be a bad institution. He said it forever wrecked the man .whipped and destroyed prison discipline. ' A letter received from the wife of Captain Hoelstnd of the ship Ben Sew*ll, wrecked in Formosa channel, partially confirms the report that a boat load, including Morris, the first mate, twelve men aud a woman, were killed on Botel Tobago, an island inhabited bysavages. The Beanmont Confederated Oil and Pipe Line Company has been placed in the hands of a receiver at Dallas, Texas. The company was capitalized for $2,000,000. Twenty-two thousand shares of its stock were held by 8. J. Vonkoenneritz of Austin, nnd it was on his application that the receiver was appointed. Announcement of the successful accomplishment of grafting the ear of one man to the head of another \\ us made by Dr. Andrew L. Nelden, of New York. The putient upon whom Dr. Nelden grafted the ear is overjoyed in the physical possession <ff an ear which another man wore little more thau two weeks ago. Ottawa University, in Ottawa, Out, was destroyed by fire, but only one person was seriously hurt. The loss is estimated at $250,000, partly covered by insurance. It will be two yegrs before the university can be rebuilt, nnd meantime it will be impossible to get a place suitable to carry on the work of the institution. Three hundred armed citizens of Hudson, Ohio, had a rifle fight with blackmailers who threatened to kidnap the only Sou of Mrs. Jacob Niebel, a wealthy widow, unless $1,500 was deposited in n spot indicated in a letter sent her. Early in the morning, ns the posse, which had waited all night, was preparing to abandon the search, four men drove up. When challenged they turned their horse and opened fire. The posse pursued on foot, firing at the men, one of whom was wounded but not captured.