Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1904 — CIRCLING THE GLOBE [ARTICLE]

CIRCLING THE GLOBE

It took exactly one minute and fifteen seconds after au alarm of fire had been given to march 750 children out of the Union school, a three story structure in Salt Luke City. A fire was discovered in the basement, the tire drill was instantly called. Crossed electric wires in the main electric power subway under the education building at the world's fair at -St. Louis. Mo., caused a $3,000 fire. Chief Christie of the fair fire department was thrown from his buggy in going to the tire and severely hurt. Statesmen iu Washington are vexed nt the delay of Chinn in ratifying the treaty opening two Manchurian ports to trade with the United States, and it is recalled that one clause, providing for independent-! foreign municipal government, is against the policy of Russia. Determined not to allow negro miners to be Imported into that region. 500 strikers from the Merchants' Coal ComCompnuy in Somerset County, l’a., held up a special train on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad at Garrett and forced most of the negroes to leave the cars. The Pure Oil Producing Company of Pittsburg lias purchased for $1,250,000 the holdings of D. A. Cameron & Sons in Washington County, Ohio, embracing 5,000 acres of land on which there are more than 200 producing oil wells, with a daily average production of 1,100 barrels. A Burlington passenger train crashed through n defective bridge nt Rockford, thirty miles from Deadwood, S. D., and nine persons were injured, several seriously. The locomotive and baggage car got over safely, but the chnir car plunged into the Little Rapid creek and the Pullman rolled down the bank. In St. Louis Thomas S. McPheeters was appointed by Judge Elmer B. Adams of the United States Circuit Court guardian for Percy A. and Francis P. Blair, sons of James L. Blair, in the suit of the Mutual Life Insurance Company to cancel their father's $200,000 life insurance policy. As beneficiaries of the policy, with their mother, they are defendants iu the suit. In Kansas City Wallace A. McGowan was sued for the rent of n flat from which he had moved before the expiration of the lease. The case was decided and the railroad man won. Mr. McGowan, ns a defense for moving and refusing to pay rent thereafter, set up the idea thnt the cockroaches wcj-e so thick that his wife had to sit up nights to keep them out of the children's ears. Because their wages had been reduced 10 to 30 per cent over 2.000 employes of the National tube works of McKeesport, l’a., and the Carnegie steel works nt Homestead. Brnddoek and Diiquesue, who held from two to three shares of United States Steel stock, have surrendered their claims on the certificates subscribed for nml requested that the amounts paid L>y them on the stock lie refunded. The mill workers claim that with the wages they are compelled to work for it is impossible to keep up the payments on the stock. Uncle Sam is engaged in a novel undertaking iu tlie harbor at Benton Harbor, Mich. The lighthouse has been set ou rollers and is being moved about 1,0(X) feet out in tha lake. This work was occasioned by the extension of the main pier into Luke Michigan to the extent of 1,000 feet, and the lighthouse will be moved out to or near the end of this pier, providing it does not topple over and slide into the lnke in transit. When the lighthouse is in its new position it will be possible to see the range lights from fifty to a hundred miles along the Michigan shore.