Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 March 1900 — WEEK'S NEWS RECORD [ARTICLE]

WEEK'S NEWS RECORD

On Marrowbone ereek, Kj'.. John Langley and Moses Sopher had an altercation In which Langley and Sopher were killed and a man named Johnson' 1 kits seriously wounded. Johnson claims be waS shot while trying to separate Sopher and Laugley. As a result of the recent increase in wages granted the Massillon, Ohio, millera the Massillon district coal operators assoeiatiou has decided to raise the price of coal 25 cents per ton. The advance in the price of coal is to take effect April 1. Col. Henry S. Bunker, a prominent Toledo attorney and military man, was found dead in his office with a bullet wound in the buck of his neck. A revolver lay on the door near him, but it is not known whether .it was murder or suicide.

The engine bnulipg the second section of a western expreps left the track at the cast end of the..Altoona, I’a., yard and fell over on its side. Engineer Adam Kauffman, aged 45. of Harrisburg, was crushed in his cab and died a few hours afterward. it has been estimated by the officials of the various northwestern railroads centering at St. Paul that the emigration movement now under way from the older States to the North western States from Minnesota west to Washington will ex-<-.-ed 20,000. Soon after <> o'clock on a recent morning a freight elevator in the building at 126 Market street, Chicago, fell from the third floor, carrying down thirty-one men employed by the Blakely Printing Company. All but one were hurt, yet it is not believed any of them were fatally injured. After a ferritic buttle with ice. the fireboat Clevelander, currying a large supply of provisions, succeeded in reaching two fishing tugs nnd the fireboat Farley, imprisoned in an ice field off Cleveland. The crews of the three boats had suffered severely from hunger .and cold Mtying their thirty-six hours' imprisonment. The State Department has received a telegram from Richard T. Greener, I’nit'ed States consul at Vladivoetock, Siberia, saying that estimates for the construction there of an electric trolley tramway twenty miles long, electric lights and water works bad been prepared, and that: pro|M>salH were desired from the United States. Men started from Leadville, Colo., by the dozens the other night for tin l scene of a reported big discovery of gold ore in Two-Bit gulch, just east of the Hayden much. Certificates of high assays made by Eugene Stevens were shown by prospectors who came up from the gulch with specimens which they declared were obtained from a new vein.