Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1901 — WEEK’S NEWS RECORD [ARTICLE]

WEEK’S NEWS RECORD

A new independent glass factory, with a capacity of four tifteeu-pot furnaces, will be built lit Rochester, Pa., within a short time. The-plant at the outset will employ from 7<tO to Toll hands, ’i’tunhlers and tableware ore to be tnanufac--1 it red. A trolley ear bound for Elizabeth jt.mped'the track near Westfield. N. .1., while running at a high rate. It turned completely over, rolled down an embankment and landed upside down. Six women pud three men passengers were injured, two of the women seriously. Representatives of all the natural gas companies of Ohio at a meeting held in Columbus, agreed to supply no more gas —to manufacturers after the expiration of the contracts now in force. This action is due to the rapidly decreasing pressure of the fields throughout the State. Miss Mary Bolton, assistant to the postmaster at Htockville, Tenn., lias been arrested on a eh urge of robbing the mails. Kite is a beautiful young gill, the daughter of Rev. Joseph Bolton, a preacher- of high standing. She confessed tin* crime and surrendered a quantity of plunder. John Henderson, the negro who murdered Mrs. Younger, was burned at the stake by a mob of 5,0U0 persons in Corsicana, Texas, lie lmd confessed his guilt. Subsequently the coroner held an inquest over his remains and the jury returned a verdict commending the mob for its act of horror. On the steps of St. Stanislaus' school Jn Chicago, before the eyes of his priest and of a score of his fiicuds» Fr«nk Wisinski, It! years old, shot and killed Thomas I.nczkowski, 15 years old. The shooting was provoked by the intrusion of Laezkowski into a meeting of the Boys' I‘odanie O I’rzyjecie, known as the Mother of Boland Society. The Archer Starch Company's factory, just north of Kankakee, 111., burned, involving a loss of $.‘125,000. Only twen-ty-five were at work at the time the fire started. All of them escaped except Louis Rttel, who was badly burned. The fire was caused by an explosion of the large grinders, from combustion due to wet starch and iron nails. The March report of the statist hi.in of agriculture shows the amount of wheat remaining in formers' hands on .March 1 to have been about 128.100,000 bushels, or 24.5 per cent of last year's crop. The coni in farmers’ hands is estimated at 770,200,000 bushels, or :?0.0 per cent of last year's crop. Of oats there are reported 202.800,000 bushels, or 50.2 per cent of last year's crop still in farmers’ bauds.