Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 February 1902 — NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS.

Lord Sholto Douglass has bought a saloon at Spokane, Wash. The F. Mulhauser Company, manufacturers of cloths at Cleveland, hns assigned. Liabilities $275,000. The special session of the Minnesota Legislature, called by proclamation of Gov. Van Sant, is now in session. As the result of a shooting quarrel at a card game in Cincinnati, Walter Bryant is dead and Lonnie Gunn dying. The New Jersey joint Republican legislative caucus has selected ex-Mayor Frank O. Briggs of Trenton as a candidate for State Treasurer. Chevalier Victor Zeggio, who represented Italy at the Columbian Exposition, has been appointed commissioner to Italy for the St. Louis World's Fair, The discovery has been made that every law enacted by the last Wyoming Legislature which met a year ago is invalid, for the reason that the bills were not read and recorded properly in the lower house. Mrs. Edward Kushner and two children were burned to death in their home at Waterloo, lowa, in a tire caused by the overturning of a lamp. Another child was fatally burned and thrse others were seriously injured. At Bloomington, HI., the jury in the Chism Wife-murder case returned a verdict of imprisonment for seventeen years. The estate of the murderer is estimated nt a quarter of a million dollars, and he did not spare money during his trial. Burglars entered the postoffice at Canal Winchester, Ohio, ami stole SIOO worth of postage stamps and S2O in money. The safe was broken open. The British pursuit of Gen. Dewet has l>een successful to the extent that his last gun has been captured ami Commandant Wessels, one of his principal lieutenants, has been routed. Charles D. Carey, son of Senator Carey of Cheyenne. Wyo., and Miss Ma/belle Myers, daughter of a wealthy resident of Denver, were married in Cheyenne. The marriage was a surprise 4o the young woman's friends.