Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 March 1899 — WEEK’S NEWS RECORD [ARTICLE]

WEEK’S NEWS RECORD

The Ixmdon Daily News' Rome eorri--tpondeDl s«y* Ihe works of Prof. Schell, the German theologian. hare been put on the index expnnratorius. S hell always supported the same principles as Father Hecker. The British steamer labrador, front St. John, N. B-. by way of Halifax, for Urerpool, went ashore on Skerryrore rock, off Tobonnory, a town of Scotland, county of Argylo, on the northeast of the island of Hull. All the passengers are safe. It is reported on gool authority that the interests of the Itoyal Baking Powder Company, the New York Baking Powder Company and the Cleveland Baking Powder Company have been sold to William Ziegler for between $11,000,000 and $12,000,000. The Sloss Iron and Steel Company, Birmingham. Ala., iiosted notices at their coal mines that beginning Wednesday the wages of their miners would be increased 2% cents per tou. The Tennessee Coal. Iron and Railroad Company will grant a similar advance. Lord Hersehell. one of the high joint commissioners from Crest Britain, died at Washington. He fell on a slippery sidewalk and broke one of the pelvic bones several weeks ago, and this finally caused his death. Lord Hersehell was lord chancellor of Great Britain. A consular report from Cape Town. Africa, says that, reckoning on the basis of, the September reports of outputs. South Africa will, produce in the eutTent year sT(i.<'dTJ7Ti of gold, which will place South Africa ahead of all the gold-produc-ing countries of the world. The Chicago and Alton road is sold to , the Ilarrimau syndicate. A majority of the stock has been deposited, with the United States Trust Company of New York in accordance with the plan suggested by the syndicate and pledges have been given for the deposit of many more shares. Maj. John B. Guthrie, Fifteenth United States infantry, chief mustering officer for the State of lowa, has been relieved of that duty by the Secretary of War and ordered to proceed to Havana, Cuba, in connection with the work of inspection and completion of record of volunteer organizations serving in Cuba. Trouble continues between the opposing factious iu the Chinese quarter of San Francisco. An infernal machine was placed under a house iu Sullivan alley, bnt was discovered in time by one of the women inmates of the place, who extinguished the lighted fuse. It had the appearance of a dynamite bomb. At Quincy, Mass., the conference committee from the Grauite Manufacturers' Association and the Granite Cutters' Union failed to agree on a hill of prices and as an outcome about 1.2»¥) granite cutters struck. The cutters insist as a minimum price 30 cents an hour. The manufacturers offer 25 cents as the minimum. It is announced at Scio. Ohio, that the Allegheny Gas and Oil Company of Pittsburg, I‘a., has closed a deal with the United States Oil Cont|iany of West Virginia for'3oo acres of valuable oil” territory owned by the latter concern iu that field. There are twenty-three producing wells on the property, and forty-five more are being drilled. The gold commissioner at Dawsou. N. W. T„ has just made the important ruling that “a person who locates a claim and, after pros|iectiiig it. finds it a blank or nnprofitable. can make an affidavit to that effect and regain his right to locate again on unoccupied grounds in that district.” Heretofore a person lost his right after recording. Gov. Atkinson of West Virginia ha* vetoed the labor lieu bill, which allowed a laborer or employe a lien on material or property for unpaid wages, even when held by an innocent purchaser, and a hill taxing express companies SSOO a year for a charter. S2OO on every agent. 2 cents on each package handled and 2 per cent of the gattss earnings. Reports from the coal mining district in western Arkansas indicate that the wholesale walkout of the miners has liegun and that the biggest strike of recent year* in the Southwest is on. At the mines of the Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf Railroad, in the territory, the 1.500 union miner's heretofore employed are out and their places are being filled as near as possible by 200 non-union meu.