Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1900 — WEEK’S NEWSRECORD [ARTICLE]

WEEK’S NEWSRECORD

; The boilers of the 1 steamer Guthell, from Philadelphia, Exploded as the vessel was lying at anchor off Regia, in Havana harbor. .Two men were scalded. The explosion caused much excitement in Regia, visions of the Maine disaster rising before the people.* Richard J. Koch of Chicago, who is aaiil to be one of the most dangerous and clever swindlers in the country, was run down in Cleveland, but snecoe<l<*d in escaping. 1L is alleged he swindled the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad out of thousands of dollars. A complete house, built of steel, is n portion of the <-argo of the Dutch ship Wilhelmina, which recently sefled from Philadelphia for Japan and Russia. It is consigned to PrinceYoshibito of Tokyo. The steel house was built at Pittsburg, at a cost of >21,481. Squire D. J. Smith and W. Paris each polled 151 votes in their race for the mayoralty of Mount Healthy, Ohio. They agreed to toss a copper and abide by the result. Squire Rtauvemanu of Wyoming flung a cent into the air. Head was up and Paris is mayor of the village. The Anglo-American Rapid Vehicle Company has been organized with the object of gaining control of all the automobile and principal vehicle companies of the country. Philadelphia capitalists are largely interested in the enterprise, the capital stock of which is >75,000,000. The worst pneumonia epidemic in the Ijjstory of St. Louis is raging. March broke all mortuary records from that disease, with a total of 209 deaths. April promises to exceed that startlingly high rate. Doctors ascribe the prevalence of the disease to the extremely changeable season. The American Tin Plate Company has purchased from the Laughlin iron works of Martin’s Ferry, Ohio, several acres of ground south of its present tin mills, and it is stated unofficially tlint the tin mills now run in cohnection with the Aetna Standard at Bridgepart will be moved to the Martin's Ferry plant. Canada's efforts to secure industries have scored again in a big deal just entered into between Cupt. MacDougall of , Duluth, Minn.; the Cramps of Philadelphia, Pa., and the town of Collingwood, Ont., by which immense smelting, steel, iron and shipbuilding works are to be established on the Georgian bay. There was a riot at Mamaroneck, N. Y„ between striking laborers and men hired to take their places on local improvements. One striker, an Italian, was shot in the thigh and probably fatally wounded, another was shot in the knee ■nd several others received Cesser injuries. Several of the rioters were arrested. A syndicate headed by O. A. Robertson and Frank O’Meara of St. Paul and F. E. Kcnnston of Minneapolis has pur chased all the Northern Pacific lands in Minnesota, approximately 530,000 acres. The price paid is not officially made public, but it is said it was >1 an acre and other considerations, making the total cost to the syndicate about >1,900,000. Five thousand miners of the Georges fWOek region of Maryland struck the other Might for an increase of wages and the recognition by the operators of the United Mine Workers of America. The operators assert that they will not endeavor to work the mines, hut will let them remain idle until the men get tired of inactivity ami return to work of their own volition. Representatives of the National Iron Founders' Association aud of the Inter- * national Iron Molders’ Union, after a two days’ conference In Cincinnati, disagreed on the subject of a wage scale. The demand of the men was for an advance of 25 cent* a day on the minimum ( wages of >2.75 and for other concessions. The outcome will depend now on the action of loeai unions throughout the country. and may result in a combination to enforce the demand.