Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1903 — AROUND THE WORLD [ARTICLE]

AROUND THE WORLD

Turks prerent an adequate investigation of Macedonian affairs, but apparently, says a correspondent, botli aides in the recent insurrection were guilty of pillaging villages and slaying their inhabitants, either for joining or refusing to join the revolt. The Philippine commission lias confirmed the anti-slavery law passed by the Legislature Council of the More provinces Oct. 5. The law prohibits slave hunting in all the More territory and provides for the coniisention of ull vessels eugaged in the slave traffic. Portions of Xlissouri, Illinois, Kentucky and Louisiana experienced two decided earthquake shocks Wednesday afternoon. the first at a few minutes after 12 o’clock, the second about an hour later. The area of disturbance extended aa far north as Peoria, 111., and as far south as Memphis, Tenn. The Standard Oil Company added $10,000,000 to its yearly income the other day by arbitrarily increasing the price of refined kerosene 1 cent per gallon throughout the United States. At the same time it added another $1,000,000 to Its income by increasing the price of paraffin candles 1 cent a pound. Marshal Woodruff, of Oxford, Ohio, who v-as shot and seriously wounded a few weeks ago while attempting to arrest the Spivey brothers for creating a disturbance and for whose shooting a mob lynched Joe Spivey, declares that the crowd punished the wrong man. He positively asserts that it was lx>u who shot him. Co&mander Hubbnrd, of the American gunboat Nashville has ordered the superintendent of the Punama Railroad at Colon not to transport troops either of the government or the opposing force. Washington officials believe the revolutionists will be successful in Panama and think the supremacy of the United States is complete. Advices to the State Department in Washington force Secretary Hay to believe that the partition of Chinn, which his diplomacy alone has prevented for two years, is at last under way. That Russia and Japan have reached an agreement which will make Russia supreme in Manchuria and give Japan a free hand in Corea is regarded as certain. Miss Emma Oyer was killed and nineteen others injured, four perhaps fatally, in a collision of two cable cars in a fog on the Twelfth street incline, near the Union depot in Kansas City. Most of the injured were working girls, clerks in the big retail stores uptown, who were on their way to work from homes in Argentine, Annourdnle and Kansas City, Kan., across the river from Kansas City, Mo. The aocident was due to slippery tracks. One train heavily laden with passengers had reached Summit street, nnd had stopped to let off a passenger, when the gripman lost his grip on the cable. Immediately the train started back, gaining great speed. A heavy fog made it impossible to see a block ahead, and indescribable confusion ensued among the passengers, dozens of whom were too closely packed inside the closed car to make a move to save themselves. Several on the grip car and many among those on the platform of the rear car jumped and escaped with but slight injuries.