Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1903 — EVENTS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

EVENTS OF THE WEEK

Officials of the foremost bituminous coni companies of Pennsylvania and West Virginia declare, according to the New York Herald, that they have decided to curtail production because of the demoralisation said to exist in the trade. Yellow fever has been found In San Antonio, Tex., and a panic prevails, several railroads having abondoned part of their train service. Autopsies held on the bodies of Jose Gonzales. Miss Clara ltobertson and William Smith showed that they died of the pest. The road commissioners in the rural districts near Chicago have taken steps to prosecute all persons who post fluring bills of any kind on bridges and culverts of the public highway. The roads have been greatly improved throughout a Targe area of northern Illinois ns a result. The new battleship Missouri, steaming over a course of thirty-three nautical miles and return off Cape Ann, made an average speed of 18.06 knots per hour, which, with tidal 'oirectious greatly in tlio ship’s favor, it is believed will advance it to 18.22, a new world’s record for battleships of that class. Lieutenant Governor A. Maitland, of Michigan, general manager of the Republic Irou and Steel Company mines in the Lake Superior region, says the forces at the Republic mines will be cut about 50 per cent this fall and winter, the company having considerable ore on hand that will not be shipped this season.

The many members of the Evangelical Church nho have been agitating for years for lay representation in the conferences hnvc had their efforts rewarded with partial success. After a prolonged discussion at Berlin, Ont., the conference decided by a vote of 87 to 7 in favor of lay delegation in general conferences. Thomas Hartley, nu Insane patient at the Bartonville, 111., asylum, u-ns, according to a Peoria dispatch, killed in a battle with the guards. The men having pinioned the lunntic down to the ground used severe measures and his deatli followed. The explanation given by the nurses is that the man was violent and that the battle n-ns a fight for life. Robbers blew open tlie bank at I’leusantdnle. Neb., at an early hour Tuesday, completely wrecking the huildiug and so badly shattering the vault that the sum of $3,500 in currency was exposed to view. The robbers n-ere evidently frightened away before they could make n search. > The bank contained $30,000, and with a little more u-orlc it would have been easy for the robbers to have secured the entire amount. The Independent Packing Company, the new organization of live stock raisers, will build a lnrge packing house in Omaha. F. W. Fla to, Jr., president of the Flato Live Stock Commission Company, m'lio has been elected treasurer of the independent company, is authority for the statement. He says the company will erect plants in Chicago and at Missouri River live stock markets, including Kansas City and St. Joseph.