Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 March 1899 — WEEK’S NEWS RECORD [ARTICLE]

WEEK’S NEWS RECORD

At St. Lottis the grand jury returned indietnients against State Beiler Inspector Charles Price and IT. H. Phelper, member of the board of examiners for stationary engineers, for rewiring illegal fees. In an interview given the London Times Rear Admiral Sampson says the United States has more to gain from an alliance with Great Britain than that nation has and he rejoices in the growth of international amity. West Point men arc indignant because certain cadets who were found deficie.it in their studies and who on that accos’nt were dismissed from the military academy. have been appointed se< i.nTi licUt’Hants in t'-ie at. y. Joseph ais rhiin declare.l in the British House of Commons that the relations bet ween Great Britain and the South African Government constitute a real danger and that President Kruger bad broken every pledge. The State Department at Washington has received a draft for $40,600 from the Peruvian Government, adjudged by the arbitrators hi the case of Alexander McCord, an American, who was .ill-treated in a Peruvian revolution years ago. The two mine pump men, Charles Reuss and Burt Froy, who were imprisoned’ in the Boh Air mine at Leadville, Colo., thirteen days before, were reached the other night mid restored to their friends. They show little effects of their experience. An alarming explosion occurred in a laboratory of explosives attached to the War Department in Paris, where experiments were being made with a pew kind of gunpowder. Chief Engineer Veil, Assistant Engineer DOuville and a third official were injured. The attempt to secure the release of the Younger lioys. who are serving life sen fences in the Minnesota penitentiary for their connection with the shooting of a Northfield bank cashier and others, in which the James boys were said to be also concerned, failed in the State Senate. The Central Trust Company has brought suit in the United States Court at Columbus against the Ohio Mining and Manufacturing ComjMtny to have a receiver appointed for tin* Perry County Coal Company. It is claimed that the company owes the trust company s”<>••,<M.H> and interest. Great excitement prevails in Pleasanton, Kan., over the rich strike in the zine mine. For several days the miners have been following the lead and taking out orc, but the matter was kept quiet until now. when the company became satisfied that rich zinc was there in large quantities. Thomas Wiggs, son of State Senator Joseph W. Wiggs of Pike County, Ind., literally ent Wesley Hurt to pieces. Wiggs had been employed temporarily to teach school at Carbon. Hurt called at the school house, and. nourishing a pistol, told Wiggs that he had a grudge against him and one of them l»a*i to die. Wiggs ran at Hurt with a pocketknife and slashed him across the chest and abdomen, and his brother, who was a pupil in the school, stabbed him in the back. The prospectus of the National Straw Board Company has been issued. It says that the company is to be incorporated under the laws of New Jersey with a capital stock of $(1,000,000, equally divided between common and 7 |>er cent cumulative preferred stock. The company will have a working capital of $200,000, and is expected by its managers to control half thy straw board output of the couptry. An agreement will be reached, it is said, with the American Straw Board Company, which controls the other half of the output. A terrible explosion of powder occurred at Dewitt. Ark., as a result of which two children were fatally injured, several other persons badly hurt and property to the value of several thousand dollars destroyed'. The explosion occurred in of S. L. Leslie. A rejxirt was heard and the explosion which followed wrecked the building. About a dozen people were in the building at the time, including Mr. Letdleji-family and some customers. Two of Leslie's children were fatally burned. The others were more or less injured, several badly, but not fatally." It is supposed the explosion was caused by the children playing in the store, who, it is thought, accidentally set fire to the keg of powder.