Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1900 — WEEK’S NEWS RECORD [ARTICLE]

WEEK’S NEWS RECORD

Presence of mind of an engineer saved passengers on the Nt. Louis limited of the Wabash road from probable death in the Kankakee river. The engine left the truck and the train was stopped at the entrance to a high bridge near Custer Park, 111. Three women fell to their death and twenty persons were rescued in a thrilling manner in a tire that gutted the old Henning & Speed building on Dearborn street, Chicago. The disaster was caused by an explosion of celluloid in the office of a collar company. Through the explosion of a steam tube connecting with the boiler in the steam yacht Trilby, owned and commanded by Fred L. Spink of Neribu, N. ¥.. three young Children lost their lives, one more was frightfully scalded and three ethei people were more or less burned. A band of sheep men visited Copperton, a new mining town twenty miles west of Grand Encampment, Wyo., and “shot up the town,” riddling the saloons and other buildings with bullets. It was done aa a warning to prospectors to leave the locality, which is used as range by the sheeptnea. There was a terrific cloudburst at Solomon City, Kan. The residence district lying between a railroad and a hill to the north was flooded from one to eight feet deep. In the business section water was a foot deep in the streets and flooded every liaseinent, ruining thousands of dollars' worth of goods. A Chicago, Milwaukee. and St. Paul passenger train was wrecked at Kings Coolie, near Wabasha, Minn., by running into a landslide at that place. Engineer Hathaway and Fireman Thomas were instantly killed and several passengers who were in the'forwurd coaches were injured, some seriously. Fire which broke out about midnight the other night caused a loss of about SI2,(MX) to the building and coffee and biscuit stocks at 50 to 76 Churchill street, Chicago. The tire war, discovered in the premises of the Gessling Coffee Company, in the rear of the Quaker Biscuit Company, and spread to the front of the building, occupied by the latter concern. In a tight at LaSalle, Hl., between union and nonunion laborers of the Ger-man-American cement works, six men were badly wounded. The strikers. 2<M> in number, marched to the cement company's plant, east of the city, and attacked forty of the outgoing laborers. One hundred shots were fifed by both sides. Clubs, stones and smaller missiles flew in the air, and many spectators were hit. Order was restored by a large force of deputy police. The standiag of the clubs in the Na tioual League is as followa: W. L. W. L Brooklyn ...48 27 Boston 36 3!) Philadelphia 42 34 Cincinnati ...36 41 Pittsburg ...41 37 Nt. Louis... .32 41 Chicago ....3!) 37 New Y0rk...27 45 Following is the standing in the American .League: W. L. W. L. Chicago ....47 31 Detroit 3!) 43 Indianapolis 43 34 Buffalo 3!) 44 Milwaukee ..44 40 Kansas City.3B 48 Cleveland ...40 38 Minneapolis. 36 48