Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1901 — WEEK’S NEWS RECORD [ARTICLE]

WEEK’S NEWS RECORD

Ernest Still, a Glencoe, Ok., bachelor, propones to put himself up to be raffled off. The young ladles who are to’ invest are to pay $5 a ticket and he expects to sell between 2,000 and 3,000 tickets between now and the opening of the new country. The south-bound cannon ball passenger train on the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railroad was wrecked near Beebe, Ark. The engine struck two cows and was derailed. The mail car and two baggage c ars were also derailed and smashed into kindling wood. Prof. Johnston of the University of Kansas has discovered a means by which he expects to make the negro white. Prof. Johnston’s method consists of inoculating the negro with the germs of leucitis, or albinism, a harmless disease which produces those oddities of nature known as albinos. While the towboat Princess of Wheeling was passing up the Ohio river near Vanport, Pa., it was struck by n wind storm and sunk in ten feet of water. The cabin and stacks were carried away and the boat is badly wrecked. The owner, Captain T. M. Garlick, and four men escaped on a small boat. A largo breaker at No. 2 mine of the Delaware and Hudson Company in the eastern part of Wilkesbarre, Pa., was destroyed by fire. Condy Connor, Jack Bucks, Peter O’Donnell and John Bugdale, who were at work in No. 2 mine when the fire broke out, are missing. The loss will be fully $1(X>,000. Seven persons were Tn ju red by the explosion of a cupola in the Ainericaii Car and Foundry Company’s shops in Chicago. One, 'Thomas Cusick, died at the county hospital. The explosion was caused, the employes say, by powdet or dynamite in a quantity of waste iron which was being melted. The loss to building and cupola is $5,000. > By the death of her mother, Mrs. Alexander Dunsmuir, Edna Wallace Hopper inherits a fortune running into six figures. After her separation from her first husband, Mrs. Wallace was privately married to Alexander Dunsmuir, the British Columbia coal king. Dunsmuir died over a year ago, leaving the bulk of his estate to his widow.

Forged notes, altogether aggregating $20,000, have been discovered by the Akron, Ohio, Varnish Company. J. H. MeCrum, treasurer of the company, has been missing for a week and is supposed to be en route to South America. It was supposed that his accounts were straight, the only shortage discovered being an over draft of $4,500. Brown & Bailey, Edwards & Docker and the Dock wood Folding Box Company are the three Philadelphia concerns which will join a combination of board mills and paper box factories in course of formation, with a capital of $50,000,(XX). The organization will include practically all the important con>*erns asso ciated with the paper trade in the country. The conference of the American Tin Plate Company's officials with the representatives of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers resulted in the signing of a new wage scale. The workmen asked for an advance of 10 per cent. Under the new •wale they will receive an advance of 2 per cent. Nearly 30,000 men will ba benefited. Following is the standing of the clubs in the National League: W. L. W. L. Pittsburg ...31 22 Brooklyn ....27 25 St, L0ui5....30 24 Boston 24 23 New Y0rk...24 20 Cincinnati ...21 28 Philadelphia 27 25 Chicago 19 36 Standings in the American League are as follows: W. L. W. L. Chicago ....33 20 Detroit 27 25 Boston 29 18 Philadelphia. 21 29 Baltimore .. .24 20 Milwaukee ..19 32 Washington. 24 20 Cleveland ...18 31