Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1902 — CONDENSED TELEGRAPHIC NEWS [ARTICLE]

CONDENSED TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

The strike of the bridge and structural Iron workers of the Pittsburg district has been officially declared at ;an end. The jury in the case of Robert Hyndman, charged with the murder of James Quinn at Denver, brought in a verdict of acquittal. A student named Berry, unable to swim, got beyond his depth, and another named Daniels went to his rescue, and both were drowned at Orleans, Neb. Robert Hicks was killed, Thomas Hackett fatally wounded, W. M. Smith shot in the forehead and Henry Tackett seriously stabbed in a fight at Olive Hill, Ky. Mary E. Allen, whose home is near Kalamazoo, Mich., and who followed her fiance to Spokane, is the victim of disappointment in love and has been sent to an asylum. Walter L. Myles, aged 18, a junior in the normal school at Westchester, Pa., died from injuries received by being struck on the head by a pitched ball during a ball game. Mrs. Lillie M. Walker of Philadelphia has filed a petition for a receiver for Oxford college at Oxford, Ohio. Plaintiff once owned the institution and the suit relates to an accounting. Louis Russell, colored, who killed Perry Stout, also colored, at a dance near Princeton, Ind., on the night of April 27, was convicted and given the death penalty. Erwin Calmer of Joliet, 111., has been elected president of the Yale Fencing Club. At Moundsville, W. V., John Mooney and Frank Friday were hanged on the same scaffold at the state penitentiary for the murder of James Hervey over a year ago. An earthquake along the southeastern coast of Spain created a panic in a number of cities, but no fatalities are reported. Additional details from Guatemala Indicate that the recent earthquake there destroyed 4,000 lives and ruined a number of the more important cities and large plantations. H. Clay Evans said he retired voluntarily as Pension Commissioner, and not on offer of London Consul Generalship. The latter offer came later.

Fire in the stockyards at Chicago endangered millions of dollars worth of property, but it was extinguished after a hard fight, with a loss of SIOO,000 to the German-American Packing Company and M. Wile & Co. Two hundred girls employed at the American Tobacco factory in Albany, N. Y., struck because their foreman had been transferred. The bakers of Peoria, 111., struck on being refused a demand for a ten-hour day with wages ranging from sl4 a week for first men to $lO a week for third men. Striking structural iron workers at the Westinghouse Machine Company’s plant in Pittsburg attacked a party of workmen and four were badly hurt. R. J. English, the foreman, was taken to a hospital. The shutting down of the Union Pacific foundry at Omaha has been declared a lockout by the executive board of the union molders, and union men In all the plants of the country have been instructed not to work on castings for that company. The Featherstone foundry of Chicago is now making these castings and may be the first company affected. John and Nicholas Mattson and Neater Larson, miners employed in the Armenian iron shaft, near Crystal Falls, Mich., fell a distance of 250 feet and all are alive and able to tell of their frightful experience. A letter from Sergeant at Arms Casson of the house of representatives, who is with Representative Babcock of Wisconsin at Atlantic City, says Mr. Babcock has recovered almost entirely from his recent illness. A voluntary petition in bankruptcy was filed in the United States district court at New York by William R. Smith and George McLaughlin, jobbers in millinery, trading under the firm name of Worthington, Smith & Co. The petition placed the liabilities •t $115,877 and the assets at $86,692, of which $63,300 is secured. The session of the Photographic association of Illinois at Peoria was devoted to the discussion of a number of Interesting papers appropriate to the occasion. The Democrats of Randolph county nominated a county ticket, expressed loyalty to W. J. Bryan as the party leader and censured the administration of affairs in the Philippines. Secretary Shaw modified the customs rules to admit free luggage taken aboard and giving S3OO exemption on apparel. The Missouri beef trust inquiry showed that old meat is being sold by packers in cities after “embalming.” It is reported at Helena, Mont., that the local representatives of the smelter trust have recommended that the •00 employes of the East Helena •meiter now on strike be recognized

James Bonner of Carson. lowa, made a wager that he*could swim the Nlshuabouta river twice with his clothes on. He made the attempt, was seized with cramps in midstream and was drowned before a boat could reach him. August O. Severo, a Brazilian aeronaut, and a companion were killed in Paris by the explosion of their airship during an ascent. Severo had made several successful tests recently and was regarded as the rival of SantosDumont Spain will follow England’s example and entertain European princes and foreign delegates to the coronation. The king’s dignity has astonished diplomats. French election reballots gave the Ministerialists 128 and the opposition 40 members; the former gained 9 seats. Ten thousand persons attended the anti-wheat tax demonstration in London and adopted a resolution denouncing the government. Venezuelan troops attacked Carupano, aided by gunboats, and the rebels defeated them after seven hours’ fighting. Millerand, the French Socialist deputy, has been re-elected by a small majority in the Paris reballoting. Tue Rt.-Rev. Sebastian Messmer, bishop of Green Bay, will be bishop of Manila. Troops under Viceroy Yuan Shih Kai defeated the rebels in southern China. German chemists and meat packers met at Berlin and protested against the government order against boracic acid. They say too little meat is eaten now. The J. P. Morgan steamship trust deal caused fear in London that railway lines also may be bought up. Attorney General Crow, of Missouri, petitioned the Supreme court of that state to oust the Armour, Hammond, Cudahy, Swift and Krug packing companies from doing business there. The charge is made that the firms control 90 per cent of the trade and violate the state law by raising prices. A new way to cook cereals in saturated atmosphere has been discovered by Dr. A. P. Anderson of New York. The starchy products can be made more healthful and a variety of flavors produced by his process. The New York Central railroad has leased Delaware and Hudson route, securing its own line to Saratoga and Montreal. A foreman’s laugh when a falling brick hit a workman caused a strike on a part of the Thirty-ninth street sewer at Chicago. The police stopped the balance of the work because the plans are unsafe. Four hundred union metal polishers struck at Cleveland because their employers refused to grant a nine-hour working day. Hetty Green has secured a permit to carry a revolver from the New York police to protect money and stocks which she carries. She declared the secret reason to be that lawyers might inspire attacks upon her. The Morgan steamship trust agreement, published in London, shows that the White Star, Dominion, Atlantic Transport, Leyland and Richard Mills & 00. lines entered the trust, the capital to be $170,000,000. Andrew Carnegie, In a London interview, said that England will not be the European power In the future and must make an alliance with the American republics. Cuban inaugural plans include the escort of General Wood on the cruiser Brooklyn from Havana harbor after a farewell in the Plaza on May 20. The South Bend Watch company was organized by Clement Studebaker and others to fight the alleged Elgin-Wal-tham trust. It is capitalized at sl,000,000 and will have a Columbus, 0., factory. The Michigan Central railroad gave a mortgage of $18,000,000 to secure 3% per cent bonds due in 1952; $10,000,000 to be used to retire existing bonds and $8,000,000 for improvements. South Omaha Live Stock Exchange adopted a resolution saying trust talk hurts producers, and asking the public to withhold judgment. General Chaffee, in a cable to the War Department, said the Mindanao situation is satisfactory. There has been no fighting since the Moros escaped.

The 6,000 mine workers employed in the ten mines of the Webster coal and coke companies, near Johnstown, Pa., decided to strike until the company signs the Altoona scale. As a result of the strike of the silk dyers’ helpers, Ashley & Bailey, one of the largest weaving firms of Paterson, N. J., closed down a portion of the works because there was no dyed wool for the hands to work on. A committee representing the 500 members of the union employes of the Minneapolis flour mills demanded that the working hours be reduced from twelve to eight hours without any decrease in pay. Practically all the master carpenters of Paterson, N. J., signed the agreement with the journeymen, and the men went to work. The lumbermen’s union, numbering 275 men, struck at Denver, demanding an increase of 8 to 12 per cent , in wages. Labor leaders at St. Paul predict a general strike. Bricklayers and carpenters are out, and the teamsters say they will strike if the other grievances are not settled. The bakers will go out demanding $2 a qveek more and no night work. Walton 'Weber of Columbus was elected department commander of the Grand Army of Ohio on the first ballot over five competitors. The feature of the encampment was the parade of the veterans, in which Gov. Nash participated. Several thousand soldiers were In line.