Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 February 1903 — SUMMARY OF NEWS. [ARTICLE]

SUMMARY OF NEWS.

A dispatch from Ciudad Guzman, Mexico, says that the most violent eruption of the Colima volcano in years occurred the other day. At 8 o’clock in the afternoon there were twenty-six severe earthquake shocks of fourteen sec- . onds duration. The entire works of the Schultze plant of the American Bridge Company, a part of the United States Steel Company, at McKees Rocks, Pa., was totally destroyed by fire, entailing a loss of about $200,000. About 200 men are thrown out of employment- by it. Mrs. Elizabeth Barr, wife of George W. Barr, a prominent business man, was found dead at the family residence in St. Joseph, Mo., with her throat cut. A penknife covered with blood was in her right hand. Mrs. Barr had been in ill health for some time. .At the Methodist ministers' meeting in Philadelphia the plans for a new teeular morning paper to be published Hix days in the week were explained and discussed. The paper is to lie called the Penn Square Gazette. The paper is to have no sporting news. Burglars blew open the safe at tlie Ernst Atchison, Kan., postofflee with dy namite. The explosion set fire to the building, which, with two adjoining buildings and contents and nil the mall matter in the postofflee, was destroyed. No money was secured. D. It. Francis, president of the St. Eouis exposition, accompanied by Ambassador Choate, was received in audience by King Edward at Buckingham Palace, London. The King was most cordial in his reception of Mr. Fran is and showed great interest in the exposition. lu Lincoln, Neb., Jennie Thomas, a stenographer, 24 years old, went to the room of Fritz Broderson, clerk in a Lincoln commission house, and shot Idm dead. She then shot herself iu the head and will probably die. The young woman says Broderson refused- to keep his promise to marry her. The Cooper-Wells knitting factory in St. Joseph, Mich., tho largest hosiery plant in the State, was discovered on fire at 4 o’clock the other morning, and an hour later the plant had been destroyed. An electric lamp in the carding room exploded and the flames caught a cloth partition. The plant will bo rebuilt. The loss is SIOO,OOO, with $55,000 insurance. Several days ago Sterling Aiken, a ne gro, shot and wounded Welton Thomas, a bookkeeper of Webrum, Pa. Aiken escaped, but Webrum residents ordered all negroes in the town —about twenty—to leave the neighborhood. As they did not obey after repeated requests the white residents attacked the negroes’ shack and pulled It down. The colored men then boarded a freight train. Gen. Thomas J. Stewart, commander-In-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, members of the National Council of Administration, and the local committee in charge of preparations for the coming national encampment in Sun Francisco have decided to hold the encampment during the week of Aug. 17. The executive committee will be empowered to Invite President Roosevelt to attend the encampment. Representatives of the Lake Lumber Carriers' Association and the International Longshoremen, Marine and Trans[»ort Workers’ Association met iu Maqstee, Mich., and fixed the wages for loading lumber on Lakes Huron and Michigan this year. The loading scale was fixed at 62Mi cents an hour. This is the name as that of last year and causes sur prise in view of the fact that a few days ago the Lnke Superior longshoremen effected an agreement at 55 cents.