Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1901 — NEWS BRIEFLY STATED [ARTICLE]

NEWS BRIEFLY STATED

Matten of General Interest Caught from the Wires. Sou. of the Happening, of the Peat Week _ Given In Condensed Paragraphs for Busy People. Thursday, Nov. 21. Snow fell yesterday in South Carolina and Georgia. It is expected that parliament will be opop«sd on Jan. 1(5 by the king In person. The largest office building in the world will ue erected in the Strand, London. The Australian fidernl government proposes to tax all imported wearing apparel 25 per cent. There lias been an alarming spread the plague 4w south Russia, according to dispatches from Lemberg. Two men working on the Canadian Northern railway construction near Mine Center, Man., were blown to pieces by a dynamite explosion. The body shipped to Little Rock, Ark., as that of Newell C. Rathlmn has been reshipped to Jeffersonville, Ind. Friday, Nov. 22. Two additional volumns of Prince Bismarck's ‘’Thoughts and Reminiscences” are soon to be published. Secretary of Agriculture Wilson will deliver addresses at Chicago on Dec. 2 ami 3. General Adellmrt R. Buffington, chief of the bureau of ordnance, retires today, having reached the age limit. Germany and Russia are together preparing a common circular note proposing an anti-anarchist conference. A monument is to lie erected in Lincoln park, Chicago, over the grave of David Kenncson, said to be the only revolutionary war soldier from Illinois. The British cruiser Tribune has left Kingston. Jamaica, for colon. One hundred dollars reward for the capture of a burglar, dead or alive, Is offered by the city council of Findlay, O. An unknown man threw himself head first Into tin open blast furnace at Pittsburg. Saturday, Nov. 23. Mrs. Jennie Scott was seriously hitten by a horse while crossing a Chicago street. Mrs. Jennie 11. Scbintz, of Chicago, has brought suit for divorce on tha ground that her husband is an ex-con-vict It is constitutional in New York to Scalp railway tickets, says the supreme court. The executive committee of the National Educational association has selected Mlnenapolis for the next annual convention. Mrs. Eineline Dale, a Chicago woman, is accused at Hoboken, N. .1., of poisoning her 5-ycar-old child. Admiral Schley lias accepted an Invitation to dine with the Hamilton club, Chicago, he to name the date. It Is stated that Andrles Cronje, brother of the famous prisoner, has enlisted with the British against the Bo< rs Held.

Monday. Nov. 8.1. Numerous oiiiirphp* in thp Spanish provinces have been destroyed during the Inst few days by Incendiary tires. J. (’. Koster, a trader of Cliicago, ha* been arrested on charges of larceny preferred by his mother. Never lias the Turkish government been in such financial straits as at the present time, it is said. The winter wheal yield of Kansas for 1901 was 5KU'15,514 bushels, valued at $5«i,47! 1.57 U. The l'an-Auiericaii exposition buildings have lieen sold to the t'hlengo House Wrecking company for 892.000. Le Uesisteneia union of Tampa, Fla., has otficlally declared the elgarniakers’ strike off. The story of the proposed insurrection in the Yukon country lias not yet reached Kkngway, they say. William Yolkinar, for nineteen years past chief steward on the Graf Waldtrsee of tue Hamburg--American line, has li(H*n arrested at Hoboken for smuggling metal essence, a very concentrated perfume.

Tuevlny, Nov. It Is reported that 500.000 people will starve in the Y'anglse valley, C hina, if outside help Is not given. The health of Fount Tolstoi is improving. His fever and pains have ceased. The only musk ox this side of the antic circle will he exhibited at the Chicago live stock show next week. The striking miners driven from their camp near Knrllngton, Ivy., are back again in defiance of the judge. The Masters' and Pilots' association at Pittsburg has struck for an advance 1n wages of 50 per cent. Alexander .iuaraute shot and killed Raphael Sambrlna at Niles, O. Governor General Wood or Cuba, has bought the San Juan battle field for the government of the ITiltet' States. The kiug of Greece has Issued a decree suspending the chamber for forty days. Atlieus is fairly tranquil. Wednesday, Nov. S 7. Arrangements have l>een made for the opening of the Charleston (S. C.) exposition by the president next Monday. He will press a button. Yale’s receipts for the foot ball season. It is announced, will total about 170,000. The Illinois fund for the McKinley memorial now amounts to .$0,342.12. Chicago ice men will test the new Wisconsin law, which levies a tax of 10 cents a ton on all ice cut there to be shipped out of the state. William Dick, a barlx*r at Norwood, 0., killed himself to prove his courage. Mrs. Devore, n missionary from Utah, says that n price has been put . oil her life by the Mormons. Free dinners to the poor have been denounced by influential gatherings of educationists In Loudon. The Prussian bundesratb has adopted the navy estimates for 1902, aggregating 200,000,000 marks.

I« estimated that upwards of 500 persons were on the two trains. All the emigrants on train No. 13 are believed to have been Italians en route from New York west. A fuller list of the Injured is as follows: I, Loyd, Kempton, N. D., head hadl.v injured; Victor Cohen, Paul, Minn., hit on head by water bottle; Frank It. Biedlin, Baltimore, left arm broken; H. Walter Oriels, Joplin, Mo., serious; E. E. Smith. Detroit, slight; George Pfeffer, Detroit, not Rerious; W. E. Gillen, jumped from smoker window with four others and cut seriously; Kllardel, porter, slight; 8. McLomore. porter. No. 13, slight; Mrs. M. L. Chreion, Buffalo; Mrs. Richard, residence unknown; 11. C. Whitney, Grand Rapids, in car on No. 4, which was telescoped; Walter Greig, Joplin, Mo., badly hurt about the head; James Brown, porter, Detroit; Job Wltehell, shoe manufacturer, Detroit; E. N. Dencll. Detroit; George W. Yeoman, (•ipltallst, Kansas City; Mrs. M. E. Stringer, Bellevue, Mich., spine injured. skull fractured, may die; Frank Behller, Baltimore, Md., ribs broken; Kalla. Sook. Burnside. Ills., slight; Louis Shoemaker. Adrian. Mich., nip injured; Jessie Williams, Detroit, hack and hip liu-t; G. T. White. New York, serious; Thus. Crelian, Buffalo, leg injured; Winifred Crelian, Batavia, N. Y., slight; D. Baneard, Logansport', Ind., Internally injured; Anna Kasov, Denver, Colo., injured about head; Katharine Pint, Denver, slight; Mrs. Joseph Jaeksa, Olobeville, Colo., slight; S. I l '. Carroll, Tonawanda, N. Y„ badly bruised; Amelia Colion, Colorado, slight; G. \V. Sweeney, Detroit, bruised about head and legs. A Mrs. Donlvan, of (5C.41 Wentworth avenue, Chicago, Is among the rescued. TWENTY-NINE FOUND DEATH. Thnt Ih the Total Number of Futalitieg at the Detroit Horror. Detroit, Mich., Nov. 2s.—When the search of the ruins of the rear building of the Fenberthy Injector company’s plant was completed the death list had reached a total of 29. All but two of the company’s employes have been located, and as these men worked In the front building, which was not wrecked, It Is thought that they are at thclr homes. The men’s addresses are not <m the company’s books, so it may bo some time before they arc located. Following is the list of dead: Louis A. Henning, Patrick Malloy, Charles Marvin, Jacob Koebel, Charles A. L.vdy. A. E. Miller, A E. Hoffman, Ed Burtoh. Eugene Bertram, Stephen Kriss. Barney Mintke. George Sehoner. Christopher Waldmau, Joseph B. Coffey, John Frey, George Downes, Adolph Knapp. Joseph Kosack, Walter Ide. Richard Bryan, John Scliaihle, Douglass Dickson (hoy). William Eggers (boy), Peter Doll. Ignntlns Brook. James Thomas, William Mann, Thomas J. Mullane, Charles Luth. The prosecuting attorney has begun an examination into the cause of the explosion. Professor Mortimer E. Cooley, of the Fniversity of Michigan, who has been asked by Prosecutor Hunt to make an expert examination of the wrecked boiler, has Inspected the exterior of the boiler, but said that ns yet he couhl venture no opinion with regard to the cause of the explosion, lit- will make a detailed examination. The injured at the hospitals art; reported resting easily, with the exception of John Kllnowlcz, a molder’s helper, who will probably die.