Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 June 1900 — SUMMARY OF NEWS. [ARTICLE]

SUMMARY OF NEWS.

The Northern Pacific Kailroad Company haa filed with the Secretary of State at St. Patil. Munr., a deed from the St. Patil and Duluth Railroad Company transferring all its property t<s the-N-ort h- ,, ern Pacific. The consideration was $2,*799,824. In Cincinnati the five-story brick warehouse of Chatfield & Wood, filled with paper stock, completely colhipseiL The saloon and duelling of Charles Eckert was adjacent to the ruined building. Eckert's daughter, Gertrude, (1 years old, was crushed to death. The entire business section of the village of Middleton, Wis„ was wiped out by fire-insurance loss is $75,000 to SIOO,000, with actual loss much greater. Twenty-three buildings are reported to have burned, including tftc opera house, two hotels and the postoflice. . A deed of transfer was filed with the Secretary of State at Pierre, S. I)., transferring all the lands of the Winona nnd St-. Peter Railway in that State to the Chicago and Northwestern road. Consideration of SIOO is given, but the instrument bears revenue stamps to the amount of $18,287. Serious and irreparable damage has been done spring wheat in the Northwest, just how aerjous is a question upon which interested men differ. The most conservative view, bused on conditions as they are to-day, does not give hope of a crop exceeding 60 per cent of that raised In Minnesota and the Dakotas last .va r. . One man. killed, five seriously Injured ami a number of others more or less seriously hurt, is the result of the destruction .hyjfire of..the_ Morrison 1 lotel at South Bend, I'nd. The Morrison Hotel - was known until recently as tin- Glenview Hotel. The loss to the property will amount to somewhere in the neighborhood of $15,000, partially insured. City Marshal Milford Parker was instantly killed nt Galena, Kan. A telephone wire had fallen across the sidewalk and he picked it up to wrap it around a post. He walked a distance of about thirty feet with it in his hands, when he suddenly-pitched forward dead. In pulling the wire to tie it up. it touched a live wire which connected the current. Gov. Stephens of Missouri has issued a proclamation shutting out the cattle from a number of States in which he says tuberculosis exists. The States against which the quarantine is directed are: Maine, New Hampshire,,» Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York. Pennsylvania. New Jersey, Delaware. Ohio, Indiana, 1 llinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, lowa, Minnesota, - CalF fornia. Kentucky ami Tennessee and the I lominiou i■! < '.’tnnda. The standing of the clubs in the National League is as follows: W. L. W. L. Philadelphia 31 17 Boston .21 24 Brooklyn ...30 17 Cincinnati ...20 20 Pittsburg .. .25 27 St. Louis. .. .20 27 Chicago ....23 25 New York... 19 26 Following is the standing in the American League: • W. L. W. L. Indianapolis 30 17 Kansas City. 27 28 Chicago ....32 21 Cleveland ...25 24 Milwaukee ~28 24 Buffalo .....II) 32 Minneapolis. 28 20Detroit 16 33 The first beneficial result of the agreement recently entered into between the National Foundrymen's Association and the National Iron Molders’ Union has been attained. The iron molders employed at Randolph At Co.'s works in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, went on strike for an advance of from $2.75 to $3 a day in wages. By the terms of the agreement referred to union iron molders cannot go on Strike until the matter in dispute is first referred to a board of arbitration. The delegate of the New Y'ork local organization of the national union ordered the men to return to work, and they promptly did so. The strike lasted only an hour.