Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 April 1889 — Nuggets of News. [ARTICLE]

Nuggets of News.

On account of dullness of trade, the Hinckley Locomotive Works at Boston have shut’down. The mills of the Bethlehem (Pa.) Iron’ Company have resumed work, the puddlers’ wages being reduced from $3.80 to $3.45 a ton. Fire at Dubuque, lowa, destroyed the Dubuque Mattress Factory, owned by the John D. Bush estate. The loss is estimated at $20,000, with an insurance of SIO,OOO. Lee Brown, a colored boy at Chillicothe, Mo., was shot and killed by Scot 1 White, who was carelessly handling a, pistol supposed to be unloaded. White was arrested. The American Sugar Refinery at San Francisco, Cal., has been purchased by’ the Eastern Sugar Trust. . ]