Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1901 — MAD MOOSE RAIDS TOWN. [ARTICLE]

MAD MOOSE RAIDS TOWN.

Crazed Animal Injures Man and Kills Cattle at Faris, Minn. One man probably fatally injured, three dogs and two cows killed and several hundred dollars’ worth of property destroyed is the result of the visit of a crazy moose to the little town of Farris. Minn. The animal appeared in the streets about noon and charged directly at a little knot of men standing in front ’of the only store in town. Everyone made a rush for safety. John Olson failed to escape and was so severely trampled by the moose that he will probably die. After leaving the man the animal turned his attention to a lot of dogs that were attacking him and rapidly killed three of their number, his sharp hoofs cutting them almost to pieces. Two cows attracted his attention and he attacked them, killing both iu short order. After the brute had smashed things generally he was killed. WILL BUILD STEEL PLANT. A Wealthy Syndicate Gets Option on Land Near Norwalk, Ohio. Pittsburg, Chicago and Ohio coal and iron men of wealth and prominence have for several weeks, through two prominent, business men of Norwalk, Ohio, been obtaining options bn land iu and near that city, nearly 2,000 acres having alreadybeen secured north of the town and along the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway. Rumors of a mammoth crucible steel plant have been afloat and now the announcement is made by authority of Pittsburg parties who have been in the city-for a day or two that a plant larger than any now in operation in the United States is likely to be built at that place. Drives 1,000 Persons Ont of Business By the operation of a new law nearly 1,000 green grocers, butchers and poultrydealers in New Orleans were forced to close their places of business permanently. The law in question prohibits the establishment of a private market within 3,200 feet of a public market, and was enacted in the interest of the public market lessees in order to inefease the revenue of the city. The public markets now have a monopoly. No Bounty for Beet Snear. Attorney General Douglass has rendered an opinion holding that the Minnesota law for the payment of a bounty upon beet, sugar produced within the State is invalid because the Legislature exceeded its authority. The law is not held to be unconstitutional and it is said there is nothing In the constitution repugnant to such a bounty law. Dirtgley Wooten Mill Fails. The failure of the Dingley Woolen Mills Company was announced in Philadelphia. Its affairs were so mixed up with those of George Campbell of shoddyblanket notoriety that it was found necessary to place the mills in the hands of a receiver. (ibjectel to Tenants’ Noise. Because the moving of furniture of tenants made so much noise Alfred Roe went to the hall of the house where lie lived in New York, and after getting into a quarrel with Mrs. Josephine Eagan, who lives in the same house, was fatally stabbed by her in the neck and abdomen. Window Glass Workers Strike. Over 300 employes of the New Eastern Ohio Window Glass Factory at Barnesville, Ohio, have gone on a strike. They complain of the quality of glass produced and refuse to work longer unless there is an improvement. Admits a Shortage of $20,030. James 11. McCullough, former receiver of State and county taxes for Altoona, Pa., has disappeared aud is said to be over $20,000 short in his accounts. McCullough confessed. Plague at Vladivostok. The rei>orts of an outbreak of the plague at Vladivostok are confirmed. There have been nineteen cases, of wluch fifteen were fatiil. w Train BV’Wri from Track. A train on the Nevada, California and Oregon Railway, north of Reno, Nev., was blown from the tracks. Several passengers were injured. Big Robber Factory. A rubber manufacturing company with a capital of $1,006,000 soon will be established iu Chicago to fight the rubber trust. / Plum for Chicago Attorney. The attorney generalship of Porto Rico is the plum which has fallen to James S. Harlan, an attorney of Chicago.