Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1901 — NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS.

All the members of the late l’resident McKinley’s cabinet have been invited by President Itoosevelt to retain their positions, and all have signified their acceptance. At Gettysburg, Pa., the Jennie Wade monument was dedicated with appropriate exercises by members of the Woman’s Relief Corps of lowa. Jennie Wade was the only woman killed during the battle of Gettysburg. The battleship Illinois, the fastest ship of its class in the world, has been commissioned in the United States navy, Captain G. A. Converse assuming command with all the ceremony required by naval regulations. A head-end collision between a special passenger train and light engine occurred in the C., H. & ]>. yards two miles from Toledo, Ohio, Seventeen persons were more or less injured, but only four of them were badly hurt. Dr. William McKinley, 44 years old, a distant relative of the dead President, was found dead on I lie ground in the rear of his home in Franklin, Pa. lie is supposed to have died of apoplexy .brought on by the excitement over the President's death. * Pyon & lleniy of Chicago have offered $20,000 for the violin of the great Paganini which is now jealously guarded in the uiunicipio of Genoa, the famous musician's own town. The offer has been refused uud a better price may be proposed. Fifty persons were injured, several possibly fatally, during u crush in front of the capitol at Washington, when the doors were opened for the public to \ iew the remains of President McKinley. Misunderstanding between police and soldiers was tlie cause. Hundreds of tons of water forming a waterspout of tremendous force swept over Jamaica hay. Pong Island, wrecking boats in its path and breaking over a Pong Island train crossing the trestle between Reach channel and The Haunt. No lives were lost. The elaborate ceremonies that had been prepared for the inauguration of Gov. limit at San Juan, Porto Rico, were hot carried out. owing to the death of President McKinley. Instead Chief Justice Quinonas of the Supreme Court administered the oath of otllee. The Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York made their formal entry into the Dominion of Canada at Quebec, and were giveu a royal welcome by the people whom they may some day rule ns King and Queen. Thousands of their loyal subjects assembled to greet them. Three men whose faces were covered with black masks and who were armed with revolvers, entered the saloon of Michael King in Chicago and after compelling the proprietor and six inmates to stand facing.a rear wall, relieved them of their valuables. Nearly SIOO and a number of gold watches and chains and two revolvers were taken. The government's weekly report says cool, wet weather has retarded maturing corn in the Northwest but central and eastern crop is safe. Too much ruin has fallen in upper Mississippi valley and oarts of the South.