Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1903 — WEEK’S NEWS RECORD [ARTICLE]

WEEK’S NEWS RECORD

The wrecked mine at Hanna, Wyo., In which over IUO bodies of the victim* of the explosion of June 30 are still buried, is flooded with water below the twentieth level and but few bodies will be recovered until the mine has been pumped out, A work train running at high speed near Gale* .Mills,Ohio, on the Cleveland and Eastern Electric Railway, ran Into on open switch and plunged down a sixty-foot embankment. The niotornum and conductor sustained injuries which probably will prove fatal. All the street car lines in Detroit were tied up longer than two hours Wednesday morning at the time travel is usually heaviest by a strike of thirty-five firemen at the power house of the Detroit United Railway. The- men struck to enforce a demand for an eight-hour day. Susie Ver, 18 years old, committed suicide at her home in Chicago by taking carbolic acid. Before dying the girl declared that her lover had forsaken her, but she refused to tell his name. Several letters were found in her room bearing the signature "Carl Johnson.” Oltidals of Brown University have begun an investigation ifito the charge that the oration delivered by Maurice B. Rich at the last Brown .commencement, with which lie won the Gaston medal, shows evidence of plagiarism from an oration by a student at Hamilton College in 11)01. Thirteen persons were killed and a score injured in a railway accident at Glasgow, Scotland, where an excursion train front the Isle of Man crashed inPi the buffers at the station. Two cars were telescoped in the.crash. Among the kilk'd were the members of one entire family. The managers of the Canadian Bank of Commence and the Bank of British North America report that up to the present date the banks have received from the Klondike since the opening of navigation $2,<>3(),()()(I. They expect at least $10,000,000 will he taken out of the Klondike before navigation closes. The Farmers’ Co-operative Union of America, having $1 wheat in Chicago for its object, has jiist been organized at Hutchinson, Kan. The entire wheat belt of the West is being covered with circulars urging the farmers to hold their grain for that price. The farmers are in better shape than ever before to carry out this plan, it is said.

Joseph Burl is Hus'ied. a former Wall street broker and om-o owner, of the farm which William Rockefeller bought, went to the town iHiorbouke at? Greenwich, Conn., tile other day. He refused the offers of lii s two sixers,- Who live near Ihe pqorhoure on large farms, to pay his board elsewhere, as he said that would deprive him of his independence. Miss A lire Dane of Pasadena, Cal., apparently a helpless cripple n'rtil deprived of perfect speech for many years, lias suddenly find the use of her limbs and vocal powers restored as the result of an accident. While descending the stairs at her It one she fell and the la: it step struck against her chest. Immediately the pains from which she had suffered fi r many yeans left and she walked without the aid of crutches. The duhs in the National League are standing thus: W. 1,. W. L. Pittsburg .. .57 28 Brooklyn . ...40 41 Chicago .... .5-1 30 Boston 35 4(1 New York.. .48 34 St. Louis 33 54 Cincinnati ... 14 43 Philadelphia. .28 57 Following is the standing of the clubs in the American League: W. L. W. L. Boston 54 30 New York... .38 40 Philadelphia..so 34 Chicago .... .30 41 Cleveland ...41 38 St. Louis. ....34 45 Detroit . .... ,41 38 Washiiigtim.. .27 55.