Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1900 — WEEK’S NEWS RECORD [ARTICLE]

WEEK’S NEWS RECORD

More than 200 men were killed and more Ilian a score of others will be crippled for life as tbe result of an explosion in tunnel So. 4 of tbe I’leasaut Valley eoal mines, located at. Winter Quarters, 100 miles south of Salt Lake City, ••• Utah. ...g. , ... . ... Report* received by .John W. Springer, president of the National Live Stock Association, show that the spring storms have Ixs-n very destructive to cows and calves on the range. Some Colorado points report a loss" of 10 per cent in young stock. The house of Mrs. Katuruh Alldredge nt Mount Vernon, Ind., was wrecked by a dynamite Mrs. Alldredge and her 5-year-old daughter were tlirown from their lied, but neither was hurt. The police are at a loss to understand the motive for the crime. Near Howell’s, Neb., Joseph Slama went to the house of Frank Chndy, a neighbor, and shot the latter as he lay in bis bed ufter driving other inmates from the house. Slama then went to the Catholic cemetery nml killed himself. The men had luug been enemies. George liilderhrnnd, night watchman at the Vnl Blalx brewery, (Juion and Brie streets, Chicago, was seized and bound huiul and foot by five masked cracksmen, wlio dynamited the office safe and secured more thun S7OO in currency. They escaped with their booty. Tbe Chicago police are looking for Thomas Neveu, a 17-year old boy, who is alleged to have robbed bis widowed mother, Mrs. M. J. Neveu, of gold uuggets, diamonds and valuable papers said lo represent $70,000. after attempting to IHiison her in her apartments nt 200 1 111• unis street;"that city. Cincinnati architectural iron workers h ? vo decided to strike l>ecaose their demands had been acceded to by but one firm, the Stewart Company; whose employes are not tn the union. About 800 men nre involved. The demand is for a nine-hour day, with the ■same wages as is paid for ten hours. Fire broke out in the engine room of the Heaver Dam, Wis., Malleable Iron Works aud destroyed the plant, with n loss of over SIOO,OOO. The tire also cominniiieatod to tho freight depot of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. I’aul Railway. which, with live loaded cars and contents, was also destroyed with a loss of SIO,OOO. Jack Lynch, an employe nt Long Cliff, near Lognnsport, Ind., while returning to the hospital was assaulted and robbed by four tramps on the Wabash Railway bridge. The men rilled Lynch's pockets and then threw him into the river below, u distaTicc of thirty-five TeetrThowntvr was shallow, or Lynch would have been ~ ilrnwhtSn Secretary Long lias written a letter to Captain F. R. Chadwick, reprimanding bin* for bis criticism* of Rear Admiral Schley. After a careful study of the naval regulations the department official* were convinced that it was no offense against naval discipline for an officer to criticise another officer in a private conversation with'a friend. The standing of the clubs in the Na tionul League is ns follows: W. L. ‘ W. L. I‘hiladelphia. 0 5 Chicago 5 0 Brooklyn ... 7 4 Pittsburg ... 5 (1 Cincinnati... (i 4 New York... a 7 Hi. Louis.... (5 (5 Boston 3 8 In the American League the standings are: " W. To W. L. Milwaukee... 7 4 Kansas City. ti 7 Oevelend ... 7 4 Buffalo 5 (i Indianapolis, (i 5 Minneapolis., ti 8 Chicago .... 0 G Detroit -1 7