Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1896 — NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS.

The Carnegie Steel Company of i’ittsburg, I’a.. has decided to bdild a SI.(MHI.(XX) addition to its extensive plant. A site has been selected above the Homestead mills for a large forging and finishing shop to forge heavy propeller and steamship shafts and heavy gun parts. The plant will be equipped with hydraulic hammers, presses and other machinery of the best class, making the establish--meat, it is claimed by the company, with’out a rival in the world. The intention is to be prepared in case of war to make cannon antTheavy ordinance of all kinds. The Carnegies attempted to buy the Bethlehem forging plant, but such a high price was asked that they decided to build. } At Chillicothe, 0., Thomatj/Wnite, after a brief quarrel at the Hotel Carson with Miss Edith McKelvey, his'’sweetheart, sh,ot her fatally and then killed himself. After nearly three years of existence, during which they have been bandied about from one court to another, the socalled Plankinton bank cases at Milwaukee were nollcd by.the district attorney. The Bank of Palmer, Kan., was broken into Friday morning, the Safe blown open and entirely destroyed, and the cash box robbed of $l,lOO. all it contained. The damage to the safe and building amounts to about SI,BOO. The burglars escaped.