Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1903 — CIRCLING THE GLOBE [ARTICLE]

CIRCLING THE GLOBE

Arrangements are being completed for another curtailment in the production of pig iron throughout the country. Within a few days a meeting of all the furnace men interested will be held in Pittsburg. Emphatic denial is made in New York by representatives of several important western railroads to widely circulated rumors that a concerted effort waa to be made by the western roads to reduce wages. Captain John C. May, one of the board of curators of the Kentucky University and a prominent citizen of Lexington, Ky., was accidentally killed at Menlo, Go. He fell off a bluff while prospecting. Holliday Harvey, aged 21, son of “Coin” Harvey, of financial fame, was killed by a train at Hugo, I. T. The deceased was a brakeman on the Frisco and fell between the cars and was mangled to death. Acting Secretary of the Navy Darling has sent orders to the Norfolk navy yard for the cruiser Baltimore to proceed forthwith to Puerto Plata, Santo Domingo, to look after American interests at that blockaded port Four sticks of dynamite, with fuses attached, all ready for lighting, have been found underneath the TacomaSeattle Interurban Railway station. The find caused great excitement owing to recent, explosions at night at near-by points, which, however, have done no damage. Eight hundred laborers, members of the Laborers’ Protective Union of the American Federation of Labor, have quit work at the world’s fair in St. Louis. The walkout, the men claim, was because the exposition company has not complied with on agreement by which the issue of employing non-union laborers was settled. At Fargo, N. D., Judge Pollcred has held that speculating in options is no defense in the case of the John Miller Grain Company against John A. Klovstad. The Miller company bought grain from Klovstad and uuder his orders purchased options for certain amounts. Wheat went down and Klovstad refused to pay. When sued he claimed it was a gambling debt, but under the judge's ruling will have to pay.