Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1900 — NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS.

Gustave Roeder, New York, shot his wife and son and killed himself. W. T. Hall, representing n Chicago business house, dropped derid at Hanni ba I. Mo, Louis G. Bohmrich of Kenosha was nominated for Governor of Wisconsin by acclamation in the Democratic rtrnwation. Gov. Shaw of lowa has appointed Congressman J. I*. Dolliver of Fort Dodge United States Senator from lowa to succeed the late John Henry Gear. Ten million dollars, according to the estimate of architects and contractors, will bo expended in Chicago next fall and spring in the erection of buildings. This estimate is conservative. Fifteen thousand women of Victoria, Australia, hare signed n petition against ■the women's suffrage bill, in pursuance of a plan said to be similar to tlte American anti suffrage movement. Mr. Huff, a cattleman nnd farmer, was shot dead in his own home in Custer County, Oklahoma, by some one who fired through an open window. The herd law there is said to be the cause of the crime. Five miners were smothered to death in the Isntjunh Coal Company’s mines nt Isa<|uah. A brush fire st>read to tint mouth of an airshaft, ignited the timlteri nnd was sucked down by the ventilator fan. A mob stormed (he city prison nt Akron, Ohio, in search of n negro prisoner, Guards tired on the rioters, killing n boy and wounding four members of the mob. The prisoner had been removed to Cleveland. Miss Minnie Harvey of Plymouth, t| domestic employed in LaPorte, Ind., commltted silicide by Inking strychnine. Sh« was in the throes of death when found. She left a note stating that she wns tired of living. Miss Mary Kramer, a Chicago girl visiting friends nt Manhasset, L. I'.. diMingnished herself by rescuing two boj-j from I<ong Island 8011 ml. The lads w<■»■«» Hnrold nnd William Ranta. sous of a well-to-do resident of Baltimore. C. E. Wantlund, general land agent of the Union Pacific Railroad, estimates the damage caused by the forest fires in (Join 1 ado and Wyoming at SI<>,(XMI,(MMI. Joseph, the 10-yenr-old son of Michael Rcbaill of Limn, died from injuries re•ceived by being tossed in a blanket by jsoldlers during the encampment of the .Second regiment, O. N. G„ in th it city. At Glenford, Ohio, Manna llebwr's • enwmlll boUer exploded, killing I/avign Dupler, Eliza Winegartner nud n num named McLaughlin. The bodies were horribly mutilated and blown n great distance. Cause of accident unknown.