Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1900 — EVENTS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

EVENTS OF THE WEEK

The government ci'tflt bulletin places (he total wheat yield in Manitoba nt 11,000,000 bushels; 348,819 acres of wheat were completely destroyed by winds], drought,, etc. The yield of wheat is estimated at seven and one-halt' bushels per acre. - - _ « Victor Baldwin was arrested by the police of the Jamaica precinct in Queens borough, New \ork. on a charge of being an active participant in a prize fight which a few hours earlier in the evening ended in the death of his opponent, Ralph Miller. A dispatch has been received at the Japanese legation in Washington from the Japanese foreign oilice, announcing that the government of Japan had prohibited for the present all emigration of Japanese laborers to the I’nited States anil C-nnada, Theodor Wolfe wires to the Berliner Tageblatt from Paris that Germany will get more first prizes at the exposition than any other nation. He estimates the nuniber at 250. .Germany will be first in industrial arts, with twenty grand prix nnd 100 gold medals. Fifty Massillon. Ohio, people left recently for Oklahoma, where they will take Up claims on government land and establish a colony under plans which have been formed by local labor leaders. The government will be formed to meet the peculiar ideas of local students of socialistic problems. The steamer Doric on her arrival at Yokohama reported that she passed a Steamer in midocettn. saw her lights and heard a whistle and afterward lost sight of her. Soon a piece of wreckage was discovered. The Doric put back nnd <Trcled round for eight hours, but could find no trace of the vessel.” J At 3 o’clock the other morning fire was discovered in the main building of the plant of the Tuthill Spring Company, in Chicago, and liefore the tire department arrived the whole of the second story was ablaze. The property is owned by 8. D. Kimbark. The loss on the building amountisl to about SIO,OOO, and the machinery and stock, which is estimated to be worth $25,000, is almost a total loss. The standing of the clubs in the National Leagueis as follows: —W. L. —W. L. Brooklyn ...53 31 Boston 42 44 Philadelphia 40 39 St. Louis. .. .37 45 Pittsburg ...47 40 Cincinnati ...39 IS Chicago ....43 43 New Y0rk...32 49 Following is the standing in the American League: « W. L. W.’ L. Chicago . . . .53 ’37 Cleveland ... I 1 TO lndianapidis_.iUl 41 Kansas Milwaukee .19 111 BulT-ilo 13 52 Detroit 47 47 Minneapolis .42 54