Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 February 1902 — NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS.

Fire which started in Swart's livery barn at De Graff, Ohio, caused a loss of SIOO,OOO. The Corn Exchange and Merchants’ National banks of Chicago are to be consolidated. Fifty welj-known Chicago men who now live in New York have organized the Chicago Society of New York. Mrs. E. A. Cook of Shawnee, Ok., a restaurant keeper, announces that an uncle has just died iu Luzon, Philippine Islands, leaving her uu estate of $1,000,000. Charles L. Tiffany, senior member of the famous jewelry firm in Union Square, New York, died suddenly at his home. He had been ill with pneumonia for several days. The Maryland house of delegates, by a tie vote, defeated the bill to prevent trusts from transacting business in the State of Maryland. The bill is similar ip its provisions to the law now in force in Texas. H. H. Mafitesou, who on .Tan. 5 confessed First '"National Bank of Greut Falls Mont., while ueting as cashier, is now alleged to have taken $178,000, his operations extending over three years. Fire destroyed the upper works of the wteamer Fred Kelly, lying in winter quarters at Cleveland. When the (lames had been subdued the firemen found the body of Watchman L. Walker lying in the hold of the vessel, bur lied-to a crisp. George Savage, alius West, was arrested in Montreal, Que., at the Instance of the Pinkertons for alleged connection with a robbery at Portlaud, Ore., where aniOiTV other thiugs a trunk containing $lO ,000 worth of jewelry was stolen. It develops that Lieut. Clarence M. Fumy committed suicide at Columbus barracks because his sweetheart at Omaha became blind. Dr. Cornelius W. La risen of Kingoes N. J., Who braved the danger of smallpox contagion, caring for the living and burying the dead aioae, has been attacked by the disease at the house of a patient. A Chicago crook named Everett, who stole the overcoat of Bishop Dubs of Chicago at Findlay, Ohio, escaped arrest by jumping from a second-story window. Five shots, two of which were effective, (were fired after him.