Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 March 1903 — WEEK’S NEWS RECORD [ARTICLE]

WEEK’S NEWS RECORD

Twelve hundred shopmen nnd roundhouse employes of the Lake Shore Railway at Elkhart, Ind., have received an Increase of pay, ranging from 5 to 8 per cent, effective March 1. The advance was voluntary on the part of the railway company. John B. Ferguson, a traveling aalerBian from Pittsburg, was shot and killed at New Castle Junction, Pa., supposedly by Robert Mongin, an iron molder, who is held for the murder. It is thought Ferguson made an insulting remark to Mongin's wife. Five boys lighted a stick of dynamite which they found in the northern part of Buffalo. All were injured by the explosion nnd several may die. The victims nre Anthony Geraee, Janies S. Chorlia, Touy 8. Chorlia,' John Ferris and Tony Ferris. Their ages nre from 5 to 10 years. A big find of valuable iron ore in the River Hills, near Wrightsvillc, Ta., has been made nnd is considered by the State geologist the most important ever discovered in Pennsylvania. The ore is of the hematite variety, containing a large percentage of metallic iron and little dross. The lumber carrier! of the groat lakes have concluded ncgoliatiousAvith the marine cooks. The contract agreed upon fixes the same scale of wages as was paid last year. The objection to women cooks was met by a'tconipromise. Women who were cooks lggt year are to be retained, but no new contracts are to be made with women. The general committee of management of the G. A. R. has sent to President Roosevelt an invitation to attend the thirty-seventh annual national encampment of the order, to be held in San Francisco next August. It is expected that the President. Will accept the invitation if he does not visit the const earlier in the year. One man was killed, one lias since died and two others are seriously hurt as the result of an explosion at the Republic Iron and Steel mills at East Chicago, Ind. The men were manipulating a giant pair of shears in the cutting mill, and after sending the shears into a carbonic gas tank, which happened to lie loaded, the contents exploded and flying steel and debris filled the works. The Southern and Western stove manufacturers concluded their joint session In Chattanooga. The action taken indicates that there is to be a dose alliance between the members of the two associations, which embrace practically every stovcinnker of any consequence in the country. It was unanimously decided to increase the price of all stove manufacturers’ goods 5 per cent. A dispateli from Manila to Lloyds says the local United States steamships Navarra and Nuestra Sonora do Lourdes have been in collision off Cape Santiago, oil the southwest coast of tile island of Luzon. Both vessels sank. Some (f the passengers and crew were saved. Adam Black, a wealthy cattle king of Minot, N. D., committed suicide by taking strychnine. It is thought lie was temporarily demented.