Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 May 1899 — EVENTS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

EVENTS OF THE WEEK

Robert L. rutting has begun suit in the Supreme Court at New York for absolute divorce from Mrs. Minnie Seligman Cutting. His wife denies his allegations and Intends to make counter charges, insisting that the courts must grunt a decree in Iter favitr. Adjt. Gen. Corbin has prepared this Statement of the number of deaths which have occurred in the army sinee the beginning of the war with Spain: In Cuba, 1,390: iu Porto Rico, 287: at Honolulu, 45; in the Philippines, 000: in the United States. : 1,872; total, 0,200. , The Russian minister at Peking, M. de fliers, has notified the Tsung-Li-Yamen that Russia is unable to accept the Chinese refusal of u railroad concession and that she will seud engineers forthwith to survey a line to connect the Russian Manchurian Railroad with Peking. The schooner American Boy, from Kodiak, Alaska, reports that Kodiak has had an unusually mild winter, with u small snowfall. Catches of furs have been lieavy. The passage of the law permitting natives to kill otters is bearing fruit. The ski us are worth SOOO each. The directors of the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway have authorized an issue of $15,000,000 first mortgage 4 per cent consolidated bonds to retire present obligations, buy new equipment and to, purchase the Cleveland, Canton and Southern and Cleveland Belt and Terminal Company. The conference called in St Paul to consider freight rates to Pacific coast points closed without a decision in favor either of Pacific coast joblters, who want changes, or the wholesale and jobbing interests of the middle West, who insist that the present tariffs must 1m- maiu- ' tained. The threatened general strike of coal miners in the Missouri and Kansas district has apparently been averted by an agreement entered into at a conference at Pittsburg, Kan. The operators have agreed to concede the eight-hour day after Bept. 1, recognize the union and frame a new scale of wages. A race between a freight train and four Jobbers in a spring wagon took place near Lentner, Mo. The law-brenkprs bad a good start, but were overtaken two uijles out from the village and captured by the train crew and locked up iu a box car. The only lane available for the escaping robbers ran parallel with the railroud truck. Elliott W. Brown, manager of the National Sheep and Cattle Company, one of the best known stockmen 6f Nebraska and Wyoming, was drowned in Indian creek, Nebraska, while attempting to ford it on horseback. Air. Brown was one of the Wyoming rough riders under Col. Grigsby and distinguished himself in the Mississippi wreck lipd summer, when he saved many lives. Thomas A. Merritt and Edgar Holman of Duluth arrived there from the Golden Star mine in the Seine river district, with $12,000 in gold bricks. It represented one month's clean-up at the mine with a tenstamp mill and beats all previous records for the same length of time by SIO,OOO. The stock in the mine jumped from (15 to 85. The stock of the Emma Abbott mine, owned by Chicago and New York parties, which is supposed to be on the same vein, advanced 5 cents also. The largest stamp mill in the world was started up recently by D. O. Mills at the Treadwell mine on Douglass island, Alaska. The new mill contains sixty batteries of five stamps each, with a crushing capacity of four tons to each stamp every twenty-four hours. The Treadwell and its associated mines uow have 880 stamps In operation. They crush 3,520 tons of ore every twenty-four hours, averaging about $4 per ton in gold, or $14,000 daily. One-third of this output is settled in concentrators ami shipped to the Tacoma ameltcr. The other two-thirds, or $9,380 per day. is the amount of gold actually released on Douglass island. The standing of the clubs in the Xa tional League race is ss follows: W. L. W. L. .Brooklyn ... .23 10Baltimore ...17 15 St. L0ui5....22 10 New York... 11 IS) Chicago .....20 12 Pittsburg ....11 20 Qnciunati ..18 11 Louisville ...11 20 Boston 19 12 Washington.. 9 23 Philadelphia. 19 12Cleveland ... 0 22 Following is the standing of the olubs in the Western League: W. L. * W. L St. Paul 14 10 Detroit 13 12 Milwaukee ..15 llßuffalo 10 12 Indianapolis. 12 11 Columbus ...10 12 Minneapolis. 13 12 Kansas City.. 9 10