Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1901 — Sparks from the Wire. [ARTICLE]

Sparks from the Wire.

Oil discovered at Texas City, Ji. T. Kansas City police board says saloons must shut up on Sunday. Said that Monsignor O’Connell will bo the new bishop of Portland, Me. Great Western Cereal Company baa been formed. Capital $3,000,000. French Transatlantic Steamship Com pnny has contracted for 121,000 tons of Welsh coal. John Mead, Ashland, Ky., went fishing with dynamite. It was prematurely dis charged. John’s dead. Because her husband refused to stop drinking liquor, Viola Adams, Newark, N. J., drank carbolic acid. Dead. Actor John D. Gorman, 61, New York, died of blood poisoning. A lamp exploded. a small piece of brass tubing entered his foot. His foot was amputated, but too late to save his life. Streets of Rockwood, Tenn., are full of idle men. The Roan iron works discharg ed ail their miners wito joined the union, At Wilkesbnrre, Pa., 1,000 persona signed a pledge to abstain front Intoxicants. Father Curran officiated at the meeting. Kimberley Advertiser, n newspaper controlled by Cecil Rhodes, urges that Rhodes should be made premier of Cape Colony. Relations went to Chicago to attend th* funeral of Patrolman Andy Eoban, his death having been reports*! by a newspaper. The relations found Andy all right