Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1902 — NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS.

Alfonso XIII. will be crowned King of Spain at Madrid on May 17, on his sixteenth birthday. Clem Buchter hns been sentenced to life imprisonment at Louisville for murdering his daughter. Albert Garth, a negro, who killed Minnie Woods, n negress, in Kansas City, on Dec. 22, 1809, was hanged at the county jail. Garth was a laborer and was 20 years old. Three workmen employed by the Pond Construction Company at Bedford, Ohio, attempted to thaw out fifty sticks of dynamite. An explosion followed which killed one man and fatally injured two. In Cleveland the Circuit Court dismissed the appeal of M. I*. Mooney, representing the parochial schools of the Catholic Church in that city, -who sought to restrain the distribution of free books to public school pupils. Two nrmed Armenian bands have appeared at Sandjak, in the Mush district of Asiatic Turkey. In an encounter between the Armenians and a detachment of Turkish troops the latter lost an otttcer and two men killed. News has been received that a riot broke out on the Pacific Steam Navigation Company’s steamer Columbia at Panama, and that several members of the crew were perhaps fatally, or at least dangerously, wounded. After an extensive search of the academic field the board of trustees of Northwestern University at Evanston, 111., have elected Prof. Edmund J. James, now of the University of Chicago, to the presidency of the institution. The executive committee of th > Kansas G. A. It. ordered Martin Norton, the department commander, to vacate his ofib-s at once. The committee had been investigating charges preferred against Norton ami sustained them in every particular. Samuel Mather of Cleveland, who has given thousands to the Lakeside hospital of that city, has offered another donation of $40,000. Camilla Urao, who in private life was Mrs. Frederic Leurc, for many years a violinist famous in Europe and America, died at the New York infirmary after a brief illness. Wessels’ command of Boers cut up a patrol of fifty men belonging to the local town guard of Crndock, Cape C dotty, ou the Tarkastad read. A few stragglers have returned. The remainder of th« party are missing.