Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1901 — NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS.

Boors raptured n British post of fortyone ruen near Mnruisburg. Lieut. Sweet is to lie chief of the secret service in the Philippine*. Senator W. A. Clark must pay tax of $240,000 on bis United Verde mine prop erty. Admiral Sampson says he will not retire until he reaches the ago limit, Feb. 0 next. William P. Ilazrn of the United States secret service has resigned to go into business; Robert 11. Moulton, who shot at May Buckley ami wounded her two escorts, is hopelessly insane. Sultan of Morocco lias yielded to the French demands ami danger of serious trouble is averted. iAtndon hears the mullah has mad* an alliance iu northern Somaliland and has SO,OOO men to lead against the British. While preaching from his pulpit in the Harmony Street Baptist Church at Avondale, Ala., Rev. J. B. McEwen, a negro, was shot from a window of the church tind killed. An oil well that throws n aix-iuch stream of petroleum fully 100 feet in the air has been struck on Middle Hass Island, in Lake Erie, a few miles from Sandusky, Ohio. United Presbyterian general assembly, has adopted report of judiciary committee, declaring members of secret societies ineligible to membership in the church and expelling those already mem bers. Miss Agnes Long, at Sycamore, Ind., shot herself through tkc benrt In the Methodist Church pulpit. She went to th« church aiohe for organ practice. The body was discovered by her brother four houra later. At Naugatuck, Couti.. Caro Rung bought a bicycle, and in scorching down n long hill he turned out to dodge a team and ran squarely into a atone wall, llis bend struck the wall and his skull was crushed. Death was instantaneous. The Cuban constitutional convention Ims accepted the Platt amendment by u vote of 14 to 15, the final action being taken amid scenes of intense excitement. Noah Johnson, a Portsmouth, Ohio, bicyclist, while scorching over the route of n coming ruee, ran into E. L. Barrows on the streets of Scioloville and inflicted fatal injuries. Joliiihiiii was arrested. A. Robertson & Co., operating the Corbin and Excelsior collieries at Sbamokiu, Pa., agreed to hereafter pay their employe! semi-monthly, whereupon the strike of 1,000 men and boys was declar* rd off..