Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1903 — EVENTS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

EVENTS OF THE WEEK

, /'At Seattle, Wash., the grand jury re*lorned all the indictments which it had .voted during the last two weeks, including those against the Mayor for malfeasance in otllee, (thief of police, justices and other prominent men in the community. In all nineteen indictments were returned. Attorney General Douglass of Minnesota has handed down an opinion In which lie says the State has no recourse at law to prevent the alleged merger of the Duluth, Misenbe and Northern and the Iron Range Railroads by the Rockefellers. lie says |the spirit but not the letter of the law lias been violated. i A sweeping anti-trust law, which applies to labor organizations as well as 'corporations, has passed both houses of /the Texas Legislature. The new bill is an id to combine all the legal virtues of all the anti-trust measures enacted in ffexns Legislatures for the Inst six years 'and eliminates all their objectionable technical provisions. Forrest, McCord, a young barber living Hit Bournviile, Ohio, killed Charity Storis, 20 yearn old, his sweetheart, by cutting lier throat. Then he cut his own throat. ■McCord had been drinking heavily, and lie struck one of his companions with.a tieer bottle. A warrant was issued for Ills arrest. He then went to the Ktorts home, and the murder followed. Three children of Mrs. Susie Spencer, who runs a hotel at Hutchinson, Kail., .were kidnaped the other night. The man Who is thought to have abducted them wns a guest at the place. He became friendly with the children and persuaded the mother to have their pictures taken. •Ho took them to a gallery and then for a drive. The man returned late with the youngest and said the buggy had broken down. He then left and has not been seen since. One dead, seven not expected to live, two missing and seven others so badly burned and disfigured ns to be alines! unrecognizable, wns the terrible result of an explosion in blast furnace “1” of the Edgar Thomson " steel plant of the Carnegie company at Rraddoek, I'a. The name of the dead man is given as John Smith, probably an anglicized form of his proper name. As far as can ho learned the explosion was due to a defect in the electrical equipment of the furnace.