Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1901 — NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS.

High prices were puit] fur magnificent jewel* auctioned nt Christie'* in London. Privilege of pay chairs in New York parks will be revoked, owing to opposition of the public. Ohio Democratic State convention refused to indorse Bryan and the Kansas City platform. Kilbourne was nominated for Governor. The State Department has received the amount of the American indemnity claim againNt Turkey, $'.15,000, through the American legation at Constantinople. The Younger brothers have been released from prison by the Minnesota pardon board after twenty-five years' imprisonment. They must uot leave the State. An explosion in the engine room of the El Paso, Texas, smelter started a fire. The fire was confined to the furnace department, and shippers having ore at the smelter will lose nothing. The dunutge cannot yet be estimated. The residence of John M unroe, 1 Hue De Longchamps, Paris, has l»een robbed of jewelry valued at 80,000 fran s. The robber* entered an opeu window on the ground floor in the absence of the family and while the servant* were at dinner. The mill operatives at Tapper Lake, N. Y., tKW in number, are on strike for shorter hours. All the mills are closed and trouble is feared. Home of the strikers, it is said, threatened to burn the mills if their demands were not granted. The international convention of the Independent Order of Good Templars held Ita annual session in Utica, N. Y. The order bad its birth there flfty years ugo. A special from Greenville, Tenn., Mays: “Mrs. Martha Patterson, the last of the children of ex-Presldent Andrew Johnson, la dead. Her last boura were peaceful.” By a seeming error in the will of Jacob 8. Rogers, the sura of ‘‘seventy-five thousand thousand dollars” is bequeathed to bia nephew Theodore B. Rogers, Jr., and the Metropolitan Museum of Art may 4get nothing.