Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1907 — Told In a Few Lines. [ARTICLE]

Told In a Few Lines.

Tlio McDonald engineering building at McGill university at Montreal, was destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at between $300,000 and $730,000, insurance $420,000. The negro longshoremen of the Merchants and Miners' Transportation Company and the Old Dominion Steamship Company, who have been on a strike for an increase of 3 cents an hour in wages, have been notified by the companies that they need not return to work. All men hare been withdrawn from the underground workings in the Ilomestake mine at I/ead, S. D., in consequence of the presence of carbon dioxide gas caused by tla< (ire that has been burning in the mine. There has been no loss of life, but many men hare been overcome by the gas.