Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 November 1900 — SUMMARY OF NEWS. [ARTICLE]

SUMMARY OF NEWS.

A fierce gale swept over the English Channel, causing a number of wrecks, including the Hildegarde, bound for Shields, near Weymouth. There were no fatalities. The ketch Georgina was lost off Hayling Island. All on board were drowned. Three burglars held old and crippled John Kane on a red-hot stove at \A ilkeshnrre Pa in an effort to extort from him the hiding place of his money. They got none, because lie] had none, and finally left him, horribly burned and suffering frightfully. One of the rarest freaks of nature met •with in surgery was found by a elinlc* in the Albany hospital that of a heart occupying the place where the liver should tie aud vice versa. The patient is a Herman named Charles Sclmffel, whose ttionie is in Boston, Muss. Eire which started in the engine room of the Detroit Bridge and Iron Works did between $05,000 and $75,000 damage. Five hundred men are thrown out of employment. The loss is covered by insurance, llepairs will lie begun immediately and the works started again as soon as possible. King. Alexander of Servia recently sought to place life insurance for $500,000 with several Austrian companies. ,The policies sought were refused on the ground that, after the assassination of King Humbert of Italy, a combination of European companies agreed to accept no more monnrchs’ lives. As the result of the conference between the officials and the engineers and firemen of the St. l’uiil road the company will advance the wages of about 3,000 of the 4,000 employes in these classes front $7 to $lO a month. Other engineers and firemen, with switchmen, will have their hours of work reduced an hour. The advance is made for the operation of the big ten-wheel mogul locomotives which the road uses on the main lines now. A bowlder weighing hundreds of tons broke from a precipice overhanging Ouray, Colo., and came sweeping down, demolishing everything in its path. Great trees were torn up and carried like chaff before a stiff breeze. In the path of one was the cottage of James Goudley. Mrs. Goudley was alone and asleep in the cottage. The huge bowlder plunged through the walls inlo her bedroom, cutting her bed completely in two. Mrs. Goudley was seriously bruised.