Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1903 — EVENTS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

EVENTS OF THE WEEK

Fire destroyed the plant of the Schaeffer Piano Manufacturing Company at Riverview, just out of Chicago. For a time many buildings in the suburb were threatened and three were greatly damaged by the flames. The loss to the piano company is estimated nt $200,000. Four men were killed by the explosion of the engine on an freight train four miles west of Bowerstown, Ohio. The locomotive was hurled sixty feet and crashed down upon a passing west-bound freight train. Twenty six cars were hurled down an embankment. A desperate attempt to lynch Stephen Crandall, who was arrested as a suspect in connection with the shooting of Harry I’atee, the bank cashier, was made at Perry, lowa. Three thousand men gathered at the jail, ropes were secured and preparations made to hang Crandall. Sheriff Holmes spirited the prisoner away. Reports from Mexico are to the effect that the bubonic plague is spreading, and that at some places the people are dying like sheep in a blizzard. The Federal authorities are using heroic efforts to eheck the spread of the plague in Mazatlan, and have ordered the burning of tire ship yard erected a few years ago at- a heavy expense. Euclid Madden and James T. Kelley, indicted for manslaughter, in connection with the accident nt Pittsfield, Mass., last August, in which William Craig, President Roosevelt's bodyguard, was killed, i< traded a previous plea of not guilty and pleaded guilty. Madden was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment and to pay a fine of SSOO. Kelley's case was placed on file. A concurrent resolution in the Kansas Legislature deals with the harvesting machine trust. It is charged that prices have been advanced $5 on each machine since the trust was organized, and flint local dealers have been driven out of the field by the establishment of branch houses. An investigation will be made hud a bill may be passed taxing the trust the same as other foreign corporations. The Gilchrist Transportation Company, with a capital stock of $10,000,000, will be incorporated in Gino within n few days, with J. C. Gilchrist, of Cleveland, as its president. The new company was formed by menging the Lake Shore Transit Company, the Globe Steamship Company, the Steel Steamship Company, the Inland Star Transit Company, the Vega Steamship Com* pany, the Lorain Steamship Company, the Tyron Transit Company, and the Merida Steamship Company. The company will have about eighty freight carriers, ten of which are large steel steamers now being built.