Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1901 — NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS.

Navy Department has decided to aban don efforts to aid the naval militia. New York Aidermen propose to ship hoboes from that city to the Western wheat fields. L. L. Bailey of New Orleans, who killed W. L. Selph in a duel, has been released from custody. Mrs. Pclmiera Decker, widow of a soldier of the war of 1812, nearly 90 and blind, has Iteen granted a pension and arrears amounting to $3,000. Another cloudburst descended upon stricken West Virginia coal fields and damage to property is said to lie even heavier than on the previous occasion. Ten high school graduates at Mount Vernon, N. Y., were hazed by Cornell students, who tied them to trees in the woods and left them to the mercy of mosquitoes for four hours. E. H. Balmer, 80 years old, and his wife, who is four years younger, of St. Paul, Minn., are the parents of a fine baby boy, who arrived a few days ago. He is their first child. J. Pierpont Morgan offers to furnish the money, over $1,000,000, for three of the five buildings for the new medical college of Harvard University, to be erected in memory of his father. Fire destroy?!! property nt Mayfield, Ky., worth probably $200,000. Seven tobacco rehandling houses, a large quantity of tobacco, a cooper shop and thirtytwo small residences and business houses were destroyed. The Kansas City I.ive Stock Exchange by a vote of 71 to 01 has, refused to join the National Live Stock Exchange, which has headquarters in Chicago. The Lake Erie, Bowling Green and Napoleon Railway Company was incorporated at Columbus. Ohio, with $300.900 capital. It will build nn electric railway from Port Clinton to Defiance. W. L. Meredith, son of W. M. Meredith of Chk-ngo, chief- of the national bureau of engraving nnd printing, was shot and killed by John Considine, a former Chicago policeman, in a diV| at He•ttle.