Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1901 — EVENTS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

EVENTS OF THE WEEK

While a Cincinnati, Hamilton an«l Dayton passenger train was thundering along between Findlay, Ohio, and MeComb, a wheel on a, coach burst. One jdecc went through the Ibmi'.ufjhe eiill and out through the roof, narrdwly missing two passengers. At Orapd Haven, Mich., fire totally destroyed the public library building, inelmling 5,000 volumes. The loss is $109,000, insurance $45,000. The high school was in the same building, a four-story brick structure. The tire, it is supposed, was of incendiary origin. Senator Miller introduced a bill in the Minnesota State Senate for a 5 per cent tax on the net earnings of express companies, such tax to be in lieu of all personalty tax, but real estate holdings are specifically declared not to be exempt from the general tax levy. John I£. Searles, best known throughout the United States as a fonder director. secretary and treasurer of the American Sugar Refining Comps n.v - and now president. of the American Cotton Company, has mode an assignment for the benefit of his creditors. While working in the cable subway in Uexiugton avenue, New York, Thomas Robinson was decapitated. Robinson was reaching over the moving cable when a passing ear lifted it. The cable caught him under the chin, choking him, and the car grip cut off liis head. .1. J. Hill has disposed of the St. I’nul Globe newspaper property to a syndicate of Democrats, and the Globe Newspaper Company has been organized, with former Gov. John Lind, L. A. Rosing, I’oliee- <s>mmi»*iotwr If.- ! P.~ (''inner, r>ttrr Bremer and G. M. Evans ns incorpora tors. The first break In.the,ranks-of the vesselmcn who have been affiliated with this Luke Carriers’ Association was made when the Detroit ami Cleveland line eon ceded the demands of the Marine Engineers’ Association and announced that the line would not remain in tin- Lake (’a i-viers’ Association. A wagon train ami a detachment of the signal corps, together with six Maeabcbe • scoutk, were atltH-ket} by tire insurgent* about midway between the towns of Siland and Dasmariuas, in Cavite province, Luzon. Three Americans were kitted and two of the Macahehc scouts were wound- I ed, w hile one man is missing. Frank L. Dinsmore's death sentence ! was ntflrmed by the Nebraska Supreme I Court. He was convicted of the murder j of his wife and Fred Lane of Odessa,! Neb., in whose family lie boarded. Mrs. i Tame confesses that tie planned to kill the two and then charge that Lane killed : Mrs. Dinsniorc and committed suicide. Col. Fernando Gonzales, with a de- ' taehmeiit of Mexican soldiers, who started in pursuit of a force of Yaqtii Indians several days ago. overtook a Surge body of the fugitives near Las l’rietes and a desperate tight’ followed, which resulted in over thirty of the Indians lieing killed and a number of others wounded. Three soldiers were killed-.