Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1901 — NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS.

Japanese ministry was upheld by « (slender majority on the taxation bills. King Edward has cimmiissioned Edwin A. Abbey to paint the coronation scene. One hundred and tidy recruit* have deserted front the training ship Dixie at Norfolk. Five students were killed aud many wounded in tights with Cossacks at St. Petersburg. Charles I.imhert, of Grand Kapids. Mich., missing for twenty live years, returned jllst ill time to die. In Cincinnati six men were hurt in a collision between an engine of the Big Four carrying employes to Riverside for au examination, and a caboose, on a silling at Delhi avenue. One of tlte fiercest tights in the history of Morgan County, K.v.. occurred at a primary election at Cauey. In a general row, which developed into a pistol battle, ten men were wounded. . At Beatrice. Neb., a two-foot vein of eoal was struck by workmen exenvating for brick day about twenty-five feet below the surfuee. Robert Klose is arranging to develop the find. The President has commuted to life imprisonment the sentence of death passed by a court martial at Lingayan. P. 1., upon Private John 11. Schmidt of tha Thirty-sixth infantry, charged with murder. United States Consul Hughes ut Coburg, Ontario, reports that English man ufacturers are losing their hold on the cotton goods market of Smyrna, Turkey, owing to sharp competition on the part of Americans. William Casey, aged 50 years, was instantly killed aud his sons. Charles Casey, John Casey and M. D. Casey, and hi* unknown man were seriously injured by the collapse of a steel bridge across the Cottonwood river, near Cushion, I. T. Pope Loo • openly relinked Cardinal Oreglia at an audience and the latter apologised for his display of had temper. F. H. Carpenter of Hamilton, Ohio, a retired millionaire who has visited Florida during the winters for a number of years, committed suicide at Ids winter home at Leesburg, Fla., by shooting him self with a shotgun., In response to numerous complaints of damages to fragile articles sent through the mails the Post office Department has issued u general order warning the public to use more care in preparing articles to stand rough handling.