Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1900 — EVENTS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

EVENTS OF THE WEEK

At Guthrie, Ok., James Chapman filed suit against the Ancient Order of United Workmen for $40,000 damages. He alleges that while being initiated in the •rder his spine, shoulder and neck were Injured, and he was otherwise crippled for life. A party of Americans employed In the Construction of the Mexican Central Railroad near Tiajomuleo unearthed a big collection of prehistoric relics and an earthen jar containing $15,000 in old Spanish gold. The wealth was divided among the discoverers. The State Bank of Cambridge at Lincoln, Neb., was Closed oh prders of the State banking board and an examiner put In charge. The capital of the bank is $12,500 and its deposits $40,000. An accumulation of bad paper is given As (he cause of the failure. One hundred apd fifty masked men blew up two bridges and burned two tollhouses on the Logansport aud Burlington pike in Indiana at midnight on a recent night. The road is the only toll pike in the county, and those obliged to patronize it have been hostile for a year. A $500,000 tiro. occurred at Newport, Aris, The fire started in C. B. Best’s livery and feed store, which was quickly burned, as was also the plant of the Union Compress Company, valued at SIOO,OOO. Eight thousand bales of cotton valued at $350,000 is practically a total loss. It ig given out on good authority tbat the Carnegie company is to spend between $1,500,000 and $2,000,000 in improvements at Conneaut, Ohio, harbor, the lake terminal of the Bessemer Railroad. This line was constructed to carry Iron ore from Conneaut to the Carnegie mills at Pittsburg. The Interoceanie Canal Company was Incorporated at Trenton, N. J., with an authorized capital of SIOO,OOO. The company is authorized to construct, own and operate a maritime canal between the Atlantic and Pacific oceam* through the territory of Nicaragua or any other territory in Central or South America. Richard A. Canfield, proprietor of a number of gaming houses in New Vork State, filed suit in St. Louis against Jas. T. and Harrison I. Drummond, heirs of the great Drummond estate, to enforce the collection of $55,000, which he claims to have advanced to James T. Drummond in one of his gambling resorts in Mew York City in September, 1800. Dispatches received by Aeting Secretary Allen at Washington from Captain W. W. Meade, commanding the cruiser Philadelphia, aud Commander Duncan Kennedy, commanding the Detroit, report that no trouble exists iu either Nic aragua or Costa Rica. The news confirms information received by the State Department showing that Minister Merry lias been successful in the use of his good offices in averting war between the two republics. David S. Sanford of the Connecticut ehell fish commission, who is securing options on oyster grounds in Connecticut, •New York and Rhode Island for the formation of an oyster trust, says that the syndicate will be formed with a capital stock of $15,000,000. It will be known as the United States Oyster Company and will be organized under the laws of New Jersey. There oyster growers in the proposed syndicate, fifty of them being the very largest dealers in the States named.