Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1901 — NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS.

A. G. Spalding of Chicago announce* that he will not net as president of the National League pending decision of the court. Schooner Eliza 11. Parkhurst of Gloucester, Mass., with eight men on board, has been posted as missing, and is believed to have foundered in gale of Nov. 23. Charles M. Miers, superintendent of the City Park nt Portland, Ore., was thrown in front of a street car at Upper Albina by a runaway team and instantly killed. The steamer Sun, employed in the Memphis and Fulton trade on the Mississippi, was burned to the water's edge in the harbor at Memphis and four lives •were lost. Official announcement of the appointment of Gov. Leslie M. Shaw of lowa to aucceed Lyman J. Gage as Secretary of the Treasury has been made from the White House. ■Hie Missouri, Kansas and Texas north-bound passenger train was wrecked and completely burned six miles south of Dallas, Texas. Three persons were injured, but no one was killed. Soldiers st the Presidio, San Francisco, engaged in a riot growing out of a ■tabbing and fought with the police who attempted to make arrests. Six officers were injured and sixteen soldiers arrested. Maclay has refused to resign as nn employe of the navy, and President Roosevelt immediately ordered his discharge. It is hoped in Washington that the controversy over Schley will now be permitted to die. Jerry O’Donald, arrested at Lorain, Ohio, for being drunk, while trying to light his pipe set fire to his clothing and burned to death in his cell. The Shawmut, the first of twelve 11,-000-ton Atlantic freighters being built for the Boston Steamship Company, has been launched from the Maryland Steel Company's yard at Sparrow’s Point. . Henry Siegel, on return to New York from abroad, admits that he is considering establishment in London of department store on American lines, and that Sir Thomas Lipton may be associated jrlib him in the venture.