Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1901 — NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS.

A Colorado and Southern train was eaught by a snowslide at the Alpine tunnel and snow-bound for several hours. Four lives were lost in n tire which broke out in the cellar of the fire-story tenement house, 57 East 113th street, New York. “Kid” McCoy and his divorced wife were remarried in Boston. They met vn a train from New York and a reconciliation was effected by friends. Gates Milla, Ohio, is cut off from communication from the outside wot Id feecause of an epidemic of small pox. | The number of cases is about forty. H* Captain George A. Converse has been Selected to command the new battleship Illinois, which is now undergoing its tin Sshing touches at the Newport News yards. Captain C. W. King. V. S. A., in charge of government work at Fort Mor yan, Ala., has been arrested on the charge of accepting a bribe from a coni'' Praetor. Harry K. Deer, messenger and assist- | a»i bookkeeper of the Farmers and Mechanics’ Bank of Sharpsburg, Pa., is missing. It is alleged that his accounts I are abort. Dozen- of trains are snowed up on the southern railways of Russia, ami some •re completely buried. Ten thousand lafeorcr* were dispatched to dear the ■ tracks. Several Russian steamers are | BBissi ng. K Caleb G. Jesse, convicted last Febru•ry of abooting and killing Frank Griffin, editor of Griffin's Marysville, Mo., Re- , view, and sentenced to two years in the I yenitentiary, ha* been pardoned by Got. Stephens. |L “I Bin going to shoot you, mnmmii." Slayfully said the G-year-ohl son of Mrs. ohn W. Pennington, residing near GraI Sam. Ga. The report of a pistol was | (heard and the mother fell to the floor Mortally wounded. ■ An engine running light struck a ' freight train on the Monongahela River ' division of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail iroad at Anderson, W. Vn.. and the co] 6 (Halon resul'cd In the death of six men _<mi. D*-. Serious injury of two others. A Frank Welch, the pugilist, died nt Eas ten. Pa., from the effects of his tight <nt - (Cedar Park, Phillipsburg, N. J„ with (Paddy Donovan. | Justices Paynter and Guffv of the ■Kentucky Court of Appeals drew lots to determine which should take the place (vacated by Chief Justice llnzelrigg. Jus ■ nice Paynter was snecessful. * Judge Butler of Denver, Colo., fined itbe members of the Board of County Mffewrmlasloin iH $250 each for violating n ; (court order by forbidding the sheriff to appoint deputies to guard the polls co Section day. ..