Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1899 — SUMMARY OF NEWS. [ARTICLE]

SUMMARY OF NEWS.

Another snowslide occurred at Silver Plume, Colo., carrying away all the buildings of the Seven-Thirty mine, together with several miners’ cabins and burying four men, two of whom huve been rescued alive.

Japan is selling arms to the Filipinos. United States Consul Wildman has induced the Chinese Government to impound 20,000 rifles and 2,000,000 cartridges stored at Nankin ready for shipment to the islands.

The stockholders of the William Cramp & Sons Ship and Engine Building Company of Philadelphia have decided to issue $1,500,000 in thirty-year first mortgage gold bonds, nnd retire nil outstanding obligations.

Mattie Winston killed her husband with a shotgun in Lee County, Virginia. Her husband had been in the habit of whipping her and tried it onee too often. Mrs. Winston is an invalid. She left home after the killing. Immense damage has been done in the city of Manila by fires, which are believed to have been started by insurgents. The fire department experienced great difficulty in fighting the Humes owing to defective apparatus. The dead body of Mrs. Nancy L. Sargent, who was frozen to death during the recent cold snap, lias been found near Hanover, Ohio. Mrs. Sargent was a widow, nearly 80 years of age, and lived alone. Neighbors found her lying on a bed frozen stiff. Gov. Thomas of Colorado has sent a special message to the Legislature, urging legislation to prevent the consummation of the contemplated smelter combine or the formation of any trusts in Colorado. The Senate passed the anti-trust bill with but one dissenting vote. The new board of trustees of the Poshisha at Tokyo, .lajian, lias restored the former constitution of the university, thereby securing a continuation of the policy that prevailed before ’lie late board of trustees decided to ignore the Christian religion in the training of the students. Notice has been posted in all the plants of the Tomas Iron Company at Allentown, Pa., notifying the employes that their wages have been advanced 10 per rent. This is the first order increasing wages that has been issued in the Lehigh Valley for many years. Potts Bros, will increase puddlers’ rates to $2.50 per ton in their big mill at Poltstown April 1. Other employes will ulso receive an advance in their wages. Particulars of the killing of George Wilson of Colorado by three Mexican highwaymen have roaehed El Paso, Tex. The murdered man was a civil and mining engineer in the employ of the San Pedro mine, 125 miles southeast of El Paso. A posse of Mexican officers started in pursuit of the murderers. The fugitives headed north and cut the telegraph wire at Santa Sofia to prevent their descriptions preceding them.

The St. Louis Court of Appeals has handed down a decision in the case of the State for the use of 8. Beatty against J. It. Randall et nl., from Barry County, sustaining the lower court's decision that school teachers are empowered to preserve discipline among their pupils not only while the pupils are on the school premises, but while they are on their way going from their homes to school and in returning. In this case the son of Beatty refused to obey the school teacher, who told him to aecompan.v a pupil home, and was expelled from school. The School Board sustained the teacher and the court sustains the School Board. The American Car and Foundry Company has been incorporated at Trenton, N. J., with a capital of $(10,000,000, half of which is common aud half 7 per cent, non-eumulative preferred stock. The company is a consolidation of these concerns: Michigan-Peninsular Car Company of Detroit, the Jackson and Woodin Manufacturing Company of Berwick, l*a.; Missouri Car and Foundry Company of St. Louis, the Ohio Falls Car Manufacturing Company of Jeffersonville, Ind.; Union Car Company of St. Charles, Mo.; Wells & French Company of Chicago and Terre Haute Car and Manufacturing Company of Terre Haute, Ind.