Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1901 — EVENTS OF THE WEEKS [ARTICLE]

EVENTS OF THE WEEKS

The boiler at the Queen City Marine Railway Company, ('iin-iiuisiti, Ohio, exploded by reason of frozen pipes, and Frank McKinley \v;e probably fatally injured. Frank Woodward. Ihe engineer, and Joseph .McClelland, carpenter, were seriously injured. An entire family named FuHtrcu.ik, !*\ ing in the town of New Sweden, Minn., re-v>ri<b to hu at rich ii.n .with Ixkbiii'-f-tj'■ Two of them are already dead. '1 he diease is «#iid to have been eontraeted through the eating of smoked sausage whieh had not been cooked. Pat (Towo of (’Mongo, the notorious ex-couvicl, who is believed to )iave been tile principal eonsjtirnlor in the kidnap ing of tile l.Vyeiir-old son of Edward A. Cudahy, the millionaire packer of Omaha, was on inured near the a gene) of the Pine River reservation in South Dakota. Not I res of "tr ituluftinn in -wriges- tit a t will affect about 4.<kh> men have lieen posted at ail of the Idas! furnaces in t lie Mahoning and Shenandoah valleys. Whitt is known as the base price is SI.OO per day to bottom fillers and helpers and the notices state that after Feb. I the base price w ill lie $1.(15. The first suit »for damages glowing oil' of the riot of Aug. 22 last was filed in the courts at Akton. Ohio. John .M. Da vidson, whose 3-year-old daughter was killed iii her .mother's arms while the family were driving in a carriage through the crowd around the city building, sued the city for SS,(XK) damages. Attorney General Douglass lias rendered- an opinion holding that the .Miiiuesula law for the payment of a bounty tipon beet sugar produced within the Stale la invalid because the legislature exceeded its authority. The law.is not held to be unconstitutional and it is suill tlnre is nothing in the constitution repugnant to such a bounty law. Walter C. ('ash y, a druggist at Pueblo. Colo., was shot through the head and in stantly killed in bis store by a burglar. The body was found by a clerk in the employ of Casley when he entered the store the following morning. The cash register had been rifled and every pocket in the inn rdf red man's clothes had been turned inside out. The murderer escaped. By the operation of a new law nearly 1,000 green‘grocers, butchers and poultry dealers in New Orleans were forced to close their places of business permanently. The law in question prohibits the establishment of a private market within 3,200 feet of a public market, and was enacted in the interest of the public market lessees in order lo increase the revenue of the city. The public markets nowhave a monopoly.