Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1900 — EVENTS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

EVENTS OF THE WEEK

Sews of th# total loss of the Norwegian steamer Fra nines with her valuable ears'• of iron and steel on Hog-Sty reef, north of Cuba, was brought to I’hHadel|.hia by the frnit steamer Admiral SchleJ* All persons aboard the steamer were eared. Judge Sherwood, in an opinion rendered in th« Supreme t’ourt in banc, at Jetferson City. Mo., awarded a writ of peremptory ma iidamus against Auditor Isaac M. Mason, in the St. Louis city election law ea>e, holding the law eonetitutioual. At Flinty Mich, the Armstrong steel works were destroyed by fire. The plant was established in 1889 and was employing 100 hands. Loss is estimated at $150,000, partially covered by insurance, Holden's brewery and eoojter shop were also destroyed. v ; A disastrous conflagration raged at (!arbondale, destroy jug the business plan-s of the Wihvell-Teeter Grocery Company. A. Starxinger’s meat market, Miller Bros.’ restaurant, Barth Shoe Company and Peak & Storm’s general jiten-handise store. A pitched battle, in which knives and pistols were used, was fought between Mexican and American laborers at the Helvetia eopj»er mines Tucson, Aria. The fight was precipitated by drunken Mexicans “shooting up’’ the camp. One jLlcncm was killed. • The Cologne Gazette announces that the Cxar has abolished the rule which provided that district governors of Finland should take a special bath ui>on Entering the Russian state service. This path was framed on the status of Finland as a grand duchy, and its abolition has crushingly impressed the Finns. Gov. I*ingree of Michigan has been deluged with letters from relatives of ooldiers serving in the army in the Philippines to get their discharges before Jheir terms expire. The other day he 'received a letter from Secretary of War Root, which states that no more discharge papers will be granted. lie says it sets a had precedent. In ludianaimlis four firemen were caught under a falliug wall, one, Frank Mankin. being badly crushed and horned at a fire which destroyed the building of B. t’ones A Son, clothing manufacturers. The tire started in the engine room and spread so rapidly that the watchman had barely time to turn in an alarm and save himself. When the firemen arrived nothing conkl he done to check the flames and the building was entirely destroyed. The loss to the Cones is $150,UtlO. iuMired for 85 per cent on building and stock. Adjoining property was damaged by fire and water. The ltev. Dr. Richard Hear Hobbs, wbo„ while associated with l>r. Klopsch, editor of the Christian Herald of New York, raised 90.000 bushels of corn in this conntry a few years ago and took it in a ship to Calcutta, India, for distribution among the starving Hindoos, has been asked by I>r. Klopsch to accept a similar task this year, and has consented. It will be bis endeavor to raise 50,000 bushels of corn, 10.000 each from the States of Illinois, lowa. Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska, but he will not ask this time for the com itself, but for the pri<* of the corn. The com will lie purchased in New York and the Indian government will pay for the ship. l>r. Hobbs will begin work at once and will waul forty men in each of the States named. His headquarters will lie in Springfield. 111.