Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1899 — NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS.

Municipal ownership of saloons is favored by the Toledo Pastors’ Union. Gov. Stanley of Kansas has refused to take up the application for pardon made by Henry Stoops of Chicago, now confined in the Kansas penitentiary for abduction. Maj. Francis S, Dodge has been selected by the War Department to disburse the $3,000,000 allotted for the payment of the troops of the Cuban army as a condition of its disarmament. : At Jamestown, N. Y„ Edward Scott •tabbed his son, Edward Scott, Jr., of Oil City. The father had been drinking and •busing the young man's mother, which resulted in a quarrel. A big strike of miners is in progress in the Coeur d’Alene country. The miners of the Bunker Hill and Sudwan mines are I out. The men demand $3.50 per day and f: recognition of the union. Mme. Emma Calve has ordered a tombstone from M. Denys Buech of Paris. It represents Mme. Calve as Ophelia drawn toward the void by a phantom’s voice. It .Will be exhibited in 1900. ; Acting Commander-in-Cbief of the G. A. jfj B. W. C. Jackson has issued a general or- - der directing commanders of posts to have . President Lincoln's Gettysburg address made a feature of Memorial day exercises. gteCfcar Nicholas will bestow a dower of f $600,000 upon Duchess Augusta Charlotte jntta of Mecklenburg-Strelits on the occasion of irfr marriage to Prince Danilo Alexander, Crown Prince of Montenegro. An offer made by Gov. Jones to arbitrate the differences existing between the • mine owners and miners in Arkansas has jSpMB refused by the operators. The estimates foe. the financial year PpP-tliOO have been presented to the Ca- . tfiidian parliament. The total amount 1 naked for is $46,280,550, against $47,gPIMST last year. ijXA negrol>roken out with smallpox sores