Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 March 1899 — EVENTS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

EVENTS OF THE WEEK

Fir * prank-ally destroyed tie. Hungarian, elevators at Denver, Colo., and rendered nearly valueless 300,000 bushels of wheat stored there. The loss is estimated at SIBO,OOO, largely covered by insurance. In Boston n large four-and-one-half-story building occupied by a dozen firms and numbered from 33 to 03 Charlestown street, North End, was practically destroyed by fire, causing a loss estimated at $75^000. The postal commission of the federal Senate and House appointed to investigate the question of the proper remuneration for carrying the mails has decided to continue its work during the recess of Congress. Superintendent Merriam announced in Washington thnt all appointments to the census bureau must he preceded by examinations as to the fitness of the applicants for the particular branch of work to which they aspire. Paymaster General Carey. U. S. A., visited the Bubtreasury in New York and presented a warrant for $3,000,000. The money will be shipped to Cuba, where it will be used to pay off the Cuban troops, in accordance with an agreement. The Sauntry iron mine on the Mesaba range has been sold to the American Steel and Wire Company. The price expressed in the deed of transfer is $50,000 and other valuable Considerations, but it is said the actual figure is $300,000. Simpson Sc Watkins, of Scranton, Pa., have effected a consolidation of the eight different coal companies in which they are interested and disposed of them to a syndicate, incorporated under the title of the Temple Coal Company and having a capital stock of $2,500,000. So severe have been the effects of continued drought on lands of the Dunkard colony of Lordsburg, Cal., that the Dunknrds contemplate removing in a body to their old Eastern homes unless rain falls within n few weeks. Abandonment of California homes will l>e only temporary. The steamship Condor arrived in New Orleans from Bluefields, with the American rough riders who took part in the latest abortive revolution. A Spanish priest at Kama, who aided (.he insurgents, was to have been shot, hut he stowed away on the Condor and came to New Orleans. From, 700 to 1,000 men out of a total of 1,400 employed on the construction of the Yukon-White Pass ltailroad were said to be on a strike when the steamer Humboldt left Skaguay. The cause of the walk-out was a cut recently made by the railway company of 5 cents an hour in the men’s wages. Rev. Father J. A. Hartnett, a Catholic priest, died at the parochial home at Dallas, Texas, of smallpox. The priest contracted the disease while visiting patients in the Dallas pesihouse in the blizzard a few weeks ago, when he walked six miles with the thermometer 11 degrees below zero. On the advice of the War Department the treasury aeeouutiug officers have held up payment of about a quarter of a million dollars to the Atlantic Construction Company on account of harbor improvement work at Cumberland Sound, Ga. This was one of the projects under the direction of Captain Oberlin M. Carter. Rev. Mr. Von Herliek, rector of St. John's Episcopal Church, at Wichita. Kan., who went to New Y’ork several months ago to secure SIO,OOO to pay off the church debt, has not been heard from. All efforts to find him have proven futile, and it is thought he met with foul play, as he carried large sums of money. Because he was injured o»i the railroad and prevented from going with the “Rough Riders’’ to fight for his country in Cuba, James L. Fleming, regimental quartermaster-sergeant of Torrey's “Rough Riders,” has sued the Kansas City, Fort Scott and Memphis Railroad Company for $25,000. Sergeant Fleming lives in Wyoming. His suit was filed in the Circuit Court at Kansas City. News of the safety of M. Bonin, the French explorer who has been missing in Thibet and the interior of China, has reached Shanghai. He arrived at Y'achow, Sze-Chuen district, after many exciting experiences, and will make his way to the coast by the river route. With a few Chinese companions he has traveled through the greater portion of Thibet and made a trip from the Siberian line to Tong-King.