Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1901 — NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS.

John W. Reed, railway postal clerk, running between Chien go and Kansas City, ha* confessed to robbing the mulls. James E. Tilt, wealthy <*hieiigi>nn, has taken up residence with his employes at Endicott, N. Y., to prove his theory that employer uud employes can dwell together in harmony. Grain dealers in convention at Dea Moines adopted resolutions urging extermination of bucket shops by means of prohibitive tax which Congress is asked to impose. Widespread devastation bus been caused by floods in the districts of Nun Baudillon and Llobregnt, Spain. Cottages have been swept away and whole village* are Inundated. Twelve tirdnien and two employes were overcome by smoke or injured by fulling furniture at a fire in the Abernnthy Furniture Company's factory in the west bottom* at Kansas City. Mayor James M. Seymour of Newark was nominated ou the second ballot ns the Democratic candidate for Governor of New Jersey in a convention that nt limes was turbulent in the extreme. Death discloses the fact that Miss Caroline Hall, daughter of a retired army officer of Boston, had successfully masqueraded as a man for ten 1 years. Z. N. Estes & Co., n well-known grocery and cotton firm of Memphis, T< un„ assigned. The liabilities are placed at SI 1<1,750, with assets rstimuted at $250,000. A wreck in which the engineer of one of the trains wna crushed to death and several passengers injured took place in a collision of lamisville and Nashville passenger trains ut Hubbard Rprlnga, Ky.