Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1901 — NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS.

John I>. RodicfcUoi-toTs given .8110,000 fur a dormitory at Vassar. England's new budget is likely to include a duty on sugar imports. it is reported id Rome that Ambassador Fava will la* recalled from Washington. Aaron S. Daggett, recently appointed brigadier general of the army, has la-cii retired. Design for a nqval memorial arch and water gate iu Battery Park, New York, lias Im-oii accepted. Detroit hankers have bought the famous Garcia group of mines in the Stall of Oaxaca, Mexico. Winona. Minn., is dissatisfied with the government census figures of 19.710 andwill make a new enumeration. Hie Legislature of Alabama has adjourned. Its most important act was the calling of a constitutional convention. La Fleur & Dreary, shoe dealers of St. Henri, a suburb of Montreal, have failed, with liabilities of SIIO,OOO, assets $57,000. At Matthews. Ind., the dwelling of Mrs. Hattie Peal, a widow, hunted during her ahseuee, and two of three small ehildreu left in charge were burned to death. The resolution introduced by W. M. Mullock, postmaster general, providing for the payment of Canada's share of the cost of a Pacific cable, was adopted by the House of Commons at Ottawa. An outlet' of arsenic ended' the life of Miss Sadie Salisbury, one of Erie County’* most bountiful young women, at her home in Albion, Pa. Her death was the culmination of long brooding a lo\e affair.

Samuel Mower, who murdered his wife anil children In May, I!NnI, at their home, three mill's from Morton, was found guilty at Pekin. 111., I>y a jury and his punishment was fixed at twenty-one years in the penitentiary. A. It. Taylor, president of the Kansas State normal sehool, announces his resignation. effect ire in April, to accept the presidency of the James Millikin University, a Cumberland Presbyterian college, now buildiug at Decatur, 111. There is much suffering nt Lancaster. Ohio, ns n result of a failing of the natural gas supply. Factories and schools have been forced to close and the Lancaster Traction Company is unable to run its cars owing to the lttek of fuel. At Greenville, Ohio, an incendiary dost royed the lumber yard of Kantz & Wright and damaged surrounding property. I Aims SOO,OOO. An enst-bound passenger train on the Pennsylvania Itailroud ran iuto a rreight train at Hopetower, thre<> miles west of Coatesvllle, Pa. Over a dozen passengers - were injured by the eollision. While struggling in a nightmare iu a sleeping ear near Johnstown, Pa., K. B. Ktewttlnlus of Chicago put ids foot through a window and severed nn artery. Refora medical aid could lie summoned 4e became very weak from loss of blood.