Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1900 — WEEK'S NEWS RECORD [ARTICLE]

WEEK'S NEWS RECORD

Next dimmer will see a pulp anti paper mill testing $300,000 opened at Grand Rapids, Minn. A party of Wisconsin and Eastern paper men are responsible for tlie move. Congressional permission lias been secured to erect a dam across the Mississippi. G. L. Mason, a Dowie elder, of Chicago, was mobbed at Granville, Ohio, -while delivering a .lecture at the opera hom-g. Tile speaker made a bitter attack upon the Masonic anil other secret orders and was awwailml with rotten egg*...vegctnbles and oilier missiles.. To the misfortunes heaped upon the firm of W. 1,. Strong A Co. of New \ork since the death of the senior member, ox Mayor Strong, was" added fire. It Started in the basement of the store from a defect in the insulation of the- electric Wires. loss about $40,000. Edward Cudahy* Jr,, 15-yenr-old son of E. A. Cudahy, the millionaire packer of Omaah, was abducted-the other day. A demand for $25,000 ransom was made Upon the parents. The boy was returned within sixty hours, but under yvliat conditions the interested persons refused to say. The French Chamber of Deputies, after an all-night session, adopted the amnesty hill by a vote of 150 to 2. The benefits of the measure extend to offenses connected with strikes, public .meetings oX.aasoeiiUioi.ui«M.d thjMroubles In Algeria in 1K97-9N in addition to eases arisiug out of the Dreyfus agitation. Two electric cars on the Greenfield ami Indianapolis lutcrurhan line collided head-on near Jim, I ltd. Emory Scott turd John -Glasscock, • wutur.imsu. w.ctg. fatally injured. Six passengers were badly hurt. The ears were running at a high rate of speed, and a heavy fog prevented the motonuen from seeing their danger. At 8 o'clock on a recent morning, (luring a heavy fog, two electric ears, both well filled with passengers, collided near the heart of Ashland, Ky. They were running at a rapid rate of speed. Motorman John Sisco was pinioned between the ears and is believed to be fatally injured, Motorman William Campbell is also in a critical condition. Eight fire alarms following close upon each other in different sections of the city kept the Boston tire department on the move the other night. The total losses will aggregate $200,000. The trunk and baggage factory of Cutter & Cutter was destroyed and also a large stock of manufactured goods. The six-story Wakefield building on Canal street was also burned. Midway, a small town two miles down the Pan Handle Railroad from Pittsburg, Pa., was sleeping peacefully at 4 o'clock tlie other morning when n terrific explosion aroused the people. It was discovered that tln> postoffice had been robbed. Two men blew tip the safe w ith dynamite and got nearly SSOO in stamps and cash for their work. They escaped tut there is not the slightest clew to their idi ntity. Hypnotic surgery has been tried in Boston and proved successful. Joint Kneeland, 22 years of age, applied at the Emergency hospital for treatment for lumbago. The doctors decided to operate. Kneeland refused to take ether. 8o Dr. Rullcr. hypnotized Kneeland, and the doctors performed the operation on the patient’s back. Kneeland was in a state of hypnosis half an hour and stated afterward he had felt no pain. Minnesota will in the near future he the great paper-making State of the T’niou. A syndicate composed of all the principal paper manufacturers of the country has purchased 100,000 acres of spruce timber land in the northern pmtion of the State and has taken an option of several thuusaud acres more and will proceed to erect great pulp mills. The syndicate includes nearly every paper and pulp mill and has several millions of dollars at its hack. It is the intention of the promoters to make paper on such n large scale that the price of common white paper will he cut in half.