Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1900 — WEEK’S NEWS RECORD [ARTICLE]

WEEK’S NEWS RECORD

Tta Indian Government has arranged l to recoin half a crore of rupees, and has | also bought enough silver to coin a crore (ten millions) of new rupee*. No further coining is contemplated. The silver was purchased quietly, without disturbing the market. The National Executive Board of the United Mine Workers of America has decided to levy an assessment of 25 cents monthly on each member of the ergaaiaation to aid the strikers in the Southwest who arc fighting the Big Four Coal Company. A score of discouraged colonists who had gone to Cuba to seek their forinwretufued to New York on the Munson Line steamship Laurenburg. They were a unit in expressing gratitude for their safe arrival in what they called •'God's' country.” At Rush City, Minn., the S. C. Johnson block was destroyed by tire, causing a heavy loss. The Bank of Kush City, _ postoffice. Conrad IJitduinrk's clothing end shoe store. C. A. Kier's drug store and a number of lawyers and <ioct«»rs' Offices were in the building. Considerable excitement was caused by the announcement that a bomb had Iss-n found in the window ledge of tne residence of Paul de Cassagnac on the Boulevard Malesherltes, Paris, with the fuse lighted. The fuse was extinguished by a policeman. The largest offi<v building in the world is to be erected at the southeast corner i Of Broad street and Exchange plats-, in the financial district of New 1 ork. by the Alliance Realty Company. It w ill be twenty stories high, and will contain 360,000 square feet of space for rent. The house of Itominiek Antoinette, a well-known citizen of Coal City. 111., was destroyed by fire. Half an hour later ■ bis body was found, frightfully mangled, ou the Santa Fe tracks, which arc but a abort distance away. It is supposed 1* committed suicide while desjH>udent over his loss. Mrs. John M. Teuny. formerly of Se title, took her own life at Juneau. Alas ka. in a fit of temporary insanity, brought on by prolonged ill health. Two hours before the sailing of the stcaim-r Collage City, on which she was to have taken passage to Seattle, she seized a revolver and shot herself through the heart. At Black Hawk. Colo.. W. M. Alien, a earpeuter, shot and killed his daughter. Lulu, aged 16 years; then shot bis wife twice, and finally shot himself in the breast. The cause assigned for the shoot iug is dissatisfaction expressed by Mrs. Allen because she was compelled to live in Black Hawk. The family formerly lived in Rock Island, 111., and Kansas City, Mo. Arthur E. Stillwell, builder of Hie Kan Bas City. Pittsburg and Gulf Railroad and until last year its president, is organizing the American Viiuotiou Car Company, which owns jiateuts for a gasoline engine which, it is claimed, will minimize the expense of operating street cars. The company will, Mr. Stillwell says, have a capital of ss,ooo,unt), will construct a manufacturing plant al Indianapolis, an asstmibling plant in Kansas City, ami have offices in New York, Chicago and Kansas City. The insurgents captured a supply train of nine bull carts between (Irani and Dinalupijnn. Luzon. I’. L. kilting a corporal and live privates of Company G, Thirty-second infantry. The escort con misted of a sergeant and eleven mounted men. The insurgents weakened the supports of a bridge over a creek and the first cart went into the stream. While the escort was bunched trying to haul the cart out of the water the insurgents find a volley from the bushes, killing the six Americans and also two native drivers.