Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 March 1902 — NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS.

President Loubet of France will visit the Czar soon. A distinct earthquake shock was felt at Owingsville, Ky. Dishes and windows were rattled, but no damage was done. The Czar has sent 150,000 rubles for the relief of the victims of the recent earthquake at Shantaka, Transcaucasia. Frank W, Cottle, whose accounts as cashier of the failed Bank of Elkhart, 111., are short 132,000, committed suicide. Heavy snowstorm badly delayed trains in New York and Pennsylvania. West Liberty. Ky., reported fall of twenty-four inches of snow. Fire at Greenville, Miss., caused SIOO,000 damage, among the buildings destroyed being the Transient Hotel and Lake's warehouse. Maj. Ferdinand Walsin Estcrhazy, who confessed that he forged th-' Dreyfus bordereau, has been seen in New York, it is asserted. The insurgent cruiser Libertador bombarded the port of Guiara, Venezuela, for the purpose of protecting the landing of insurgent forces there. According to advices from Faris an Anglo-French syndicate has offered to pay 400.000,000 francs (twice the American offer) for the Panama canal. Dr. William Stoke Wyman, president of the I’uivcrsity of Alabama at Tuscaloosa, has resigned on account of advanced nge, after tifty years’ service. Alfred Booth, a pioneer of Chicago and founder of A. Booth & Co., one of the city’s oldest and largest business houses, Is dead. He dealt in tish and oysters. Adventists are wrought up by image of black horse burned into wall of sanitarium ruins at Battle Creek. Mich,, and predict that end of world is near at hand. After being detained on a Colombian rebel gunboat nearly a month, in spite of repeated protests. Frederick E. Walker of Pontiac. Mich., has* landed in New York from the steamer Orizaba, from Colon. Five hundred veterans of the Grand Army of the Kcpublic gathered in Minneapolis to attend the thirty-sixth annua) encampment of the department of Minnesota. Commander-in-chief Judge Eli 'Torrence received an ovation. Officers of the American Tin Plate Company and Amalgamated Association have reached an agreement providing for continuous scale, making strikes practically impossible und doing away with usual summer periods of idleness. Fireman E. It. Dugan and Brakeman Henshaw were killed by the explosion of an engine attached to a Southern Pacific freight train near Santa Maria, Cal. The Platte river Ims been on n rampage. Advices are that the Missouri Pacific bridge at Orenpolis has gone out and the Burlington bridge, not far from there, is threatened. At its sq|niial meeting in New York, the Soeietyfbr the Protection of Italian Immigrants received Word through the Italian consul general of a subsidy of $2,000 from the home government and .promises <sf further aid as needed.