Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1901 — NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS.

(iov. Ibickerv of Missouri lias vetoed the compulsory education hill, declaring it class legislation. The daughter of (!ov. Nash of Ohio lias been selected to name the battleship Ohio to he launched at the Union iron works, Ban Francisco, on May IS, Schooner Kwasind has brought to New York an iron chest full of silver and gold, dug np on an island off the west coast of Africa, where pirates had buried it. Theresa Vaughn, the talented actress, has been placed in an asylum for the in sane at Worcester. Mass. Grief over the death of her husband has unsettled her mind. Free trade between Porto ltico and the United HtHtes will lie established after July 1, the local assembly having passed a tax law to meet necessities of the gov t eminent. George, alias “Peg" Anderson, alleged to he a well-known crook, wanted by the Chicago police, was sentenced at St. Joseph, Mo., to five years in the penitentiary for highway robbery. A large four-story structure in Philadelphia, occupied by P. T. Hallahnn's ■hoe factory, the Franklin shoe store and S. Birschter's wall paper establishment, was destroyed li.v fire. Loss $90,000. Fire which started in James W. Connor’s dry goods store in Owatonna. Minn.. caused a loss of $75,000, (’oiiuor's loss is $40,000, with $30,00m insurance, and the First State Bank suffered a loss of $5,000. At Denver Carrie Scott, aged 8 years. Is dead, and her sister Edna, aged I years, is in a critical condition from poi son taken in eating candy eggs, which had been colored with dyes containing arsenic. A head-end collision occurred at Woodbine, lowa, on the Illinois Central forty miles north of Omaha, between a through express and a local passenger. An engineer was killed and four other persons badly injured. Announcement has been made at New York on authority that is not to lie dis Pitted that the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy deal lias been consummated at last, the Morgan-Hill syndicate having secured control. President McLean of the lowa State University lias announced the appointment of Associate Dean Charles Noble Gregory of the ( Diversity of Wisconsin to be (lean of the lowa College of law al h salary of $4,000 a year. Isoiis Millers saloon and bowling alley on State street. Batavia, N. Y.. were burned and George Lawrence, the bar tender, aged 21. and Fred Hack, a labor er. aged 51 years, who slept in tile build illg. were burned to death. Fire broke out in the Milwaukee Journui office on the top tlosr of the Montgomery building and caused n loss to that paper of about SIO,OOO and to other occupants of the building several thousand dollars more, the latter entirely by water. Advices from Chihuahua, Mexico, tell of a dynamite explosion at Minacu. Mexico. Three men were killed, one is dying and ten others were seriously Injured. George Johnson, aged 1!), employed on Peter Peterson's farm at Klmdale, Minn., killed Arthur Olson, aged 14, while they weft* out fishing. 'Johnson claims the .shoot iug was accidental, Al Plainfield. Conn., Frank Matthew, son, aged 40, rut his wife's throat and attempted to kill himself. The woman is not expected to live, hut it is thought that Mntthcwson will recover. Matthew son was under the influence of liquor.