Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1903 — EVENTS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

EVENTS OF THE WEEK

Postmaster General Payne will prevent interference by railroad strikes with interstate commerce by making all trains mail trains and commissioning tlieir crews as United States postal employes. Extra compensation will be paid them by the government. Secretary Shaw has removed Henry Ives Cobb, architect in charge of the Chicago Federal building, and accepted the resignation of two employes who desired to quit the government employment because of dissatisfaction with Cobb's methods. A congressional investigation of tho affair is expected. The Cleveland Furnace Company's plant, just completed at a cost of nearly $1,000.0J0. was tiie scene of an accident in which three men's Jives were instantly crashed out. The three men were Inaide the stack laying the last course of material when the huge bell at the top of the stack, seventy-five feet above where the men were at work, crashed down upon them. In Pittsburg John Maclnnes entered suit for $6,000 damages against John Lucbt, a storekeeper of Allegheny. Last July 4 the 0-year-old son of Maclnnes purchased a toy pistol in Lucbt’a store. While firing it off the pistol exploded and a piece of it entered the boy’s hand. He died of lockjaw a few days later. The father Is seeking to recorer damages for the loss of his child. Carrie Nation's summary conviction for selling hatchets in violation of a city ordinance was declared illegal by Judge Newcomb at Scrauton, Fn., when her application for a writ of habeas corpus came before him. The writ was sustained on the ground that the magistrate’s record was defective. Mrs. Nation’s counsel will bring suit against the city for $50,000 damages for fatae arrest and imprisonment. ltcv. J. F. Davidson of Tacoma is settling the negro problem in a practical way by organizing a colonization movement among the negroes of the South. He passed through St. Paul the other day with a party of twenty-five negroes from Ix>uisiana. all of whom will take up lands in Washington. This is the vanguard, Mr. Davidson says, of a considerable movement of colored people from Southern cities to the farming lands of tho West. Five prisoners, John Campion, John Pitcher, James Campbell, Charles Howell and Juines Dant, were prevented from breaking out of the county jail at Washington, Ind., by the wife of Sheriff Morgnu, whose suspicions were aroused by peculiar noises. She was atone, but going to the prison door called all the prisoners to her and then she pulled a lever which locked them inside the inner corridor. An investigation developed that a stone slab weighing 800 pounds had been removed from the wall and leaving only an eight-inch brick wall. The clubs in the National League are standing thus: W. L. W. L. Pittsburg .. ,63 32 Brooklyn ... 144 40 New York.. .57 37 Boston .39 51 Chicago 60 41 St. Louis 35 63 Cincinnati ...51 45 Philadelphia. .31 61 Following is the standing of the clubs fn the American League: W. L. W. L. Boston ..... .00 34 Detroit 46 44 Philadelphia..s4 41 St. Louis 42 40 New York... .47 41 Chicago ..,. .42 52 Cleveland .. .50 45 Washington.. .29 64