Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1903 — AROUND THE WORLD [ARTICLE]

AROUND THE WORLD

Mr*. Colgate Hoyt’s $25,000 pearl necklace, winch was lost April 2, wan h.' tntarned to her in New York by Miss Harriett Schade, who aays she was paid but SIOO of the SSOO reward offered for ' Its return. Mias Schide is a young tsulesI woman. John Gurtmann, n young man. whose home is in Winona, Minn., wa* instantly killed by lightning while plowing near Albert Lea. He was about half way across the field when a thunderbolt if atruek him, killing him and his four horses instantly. Henry C. King was formally inaugurated as president of Oberliu College, Oberliu, Ohio, the principal feature of the ceremonies being the inaugural prote.’skiu, which consisted of about 3,000 persons, the majority of whom were students and alumni. The New York police found floating in the North rirer I lie "body of Mrs. Mary Augusta Harper Lynde, daughter of James Harper, founder of the Harper publishing house and widow of Charles R. Lynde, who died some time ago, leaving her a large fortuue. Compressed powder will be substituted for black powder ill the ignition charges of the guns of the vessols of the North Atlantic aquadron which are now repairing at the New York yard. This chnngc Is made to avoid the smoke encountered iu the use of black powder. George A. Kolb, business manager of the Marine Engineers’ Association, who mysteriously disappeared from New York, was located in San Francisco. He said lie remembered nothing from the time he left New York until lie reached El Faso on the westward journey. in n collision in Lake St. Clair the new steel steamer S. .1. Keefe, on her first trip from Buffalo to Duluth with a cargo of coal, was almost sunk, while barge No. 130 of the steel trust fleet was ripped open for forty feet. The damaged barge was towed to I’ort Huron iu safety. No one was injured. The strike of dock laborers at Valparaiso, Chili, is becoming more serious. The strikers after setting fire to the quay ns well as to the offices of the Roulli American Steamship Company hud a number of encounters with the police, during which ten persons were killed and 200 were Injured. John Haley, engineer, was killed in a wreck on the Cleveland, Cincinnati,- l.’hiengo and St. Louis Railroad at Ivorydale, near 'Cincinnati. Tin* Southwestern limited ran into an open switch, striking a switching engine on the sidiug. The two engiueea were badiy damaged and the baggage car was derailed. The 6,000 employers of labor in Kansas City have banded together to fight the members of labor unions who use the boycott to gain their ends and have organized “The Employers’ Association.” The association decided to refuse to deliver goods to places where non-union men or non-union made goods are discriminated against. J. B. Ficker, nil Adams Express employe, and four fellow employes in Cincinnati, William Eberle, Louis Burbank and William, are dangerously il|'from drinking liquor which they supposed was whisky, forwarded from Memphis and addressed to Kate N'obbe, of Cincinnati. The liquor was found to be arsenic and whisky. In Jacksonville, Fla., the recent rain culminated in a cloudburst, and as a result one square mile of the city was under water. Many citizens awoke to find their homes stir-rounded by water, and every railroad track entering the fity was flooded. The flood Joss is estimated at $-100,000. The rainfall for twentyfour hours is 8.41 inches. The chtbs in the National League are standing thus: W. L. W. L. New York.. 15 r. Cincinnati ... 11 12 Chicago ....16 H Brooklyn ....10 12 Pittsburg ...18* 10-St. Louis..... 7 17 Boston .....10 10 Philadelphia. 6 16 Following is the standing of the clubs iu the American League: W. L. W. L. Chicago .., .12 7 Detroit 9 10 Philadelphia. 13 8 New York... It 10 Boston .....10 10 Cleveland ... 7 !> St. Louis.... 8 8 Washington.. 6 12