Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 March 1902 — NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS.

Grover Cleveland celebrated his sixtyfifth birthday anniversary Tuesday. Fifteen Russian students are reported to have been shot for treason at Lemberg. Missouri Supreme Court rendered a decision upholding the right of labor men to enforce boycott. W. J. Bryan celebrated his forty-sec-ond birthday by moving to his farm, where he will live in barn till new house is completed. The warehouse of the Ohio Farmers' Fertilizer Company at Columbus. Ohio, covering about two acres, burned. Ix>ss $60,000, fully insured. Gen. Ma has been defeated by the Kwangsi rebels, who have taken possession of Fangcheng. They have killed or pt tired all the mandarins and have looted the town. The Turkish government has made a flat refusal to repay the United States the $72,500 given to the brigands as a ransom for Miss Stone and her companion, Mme. Tsllka. The agreement between the dominion government and William Marconi for the establishment of a wireless telegraph station at Cape Breton has been brought to a satisfactory issue. Circuit Judge Fisher of St. Louis decided that the city was not responsible for the death of children from Infected antitoxin dealt out by the health department some time ago. Russia and France sent joint note to ths powers concerning the Eastern policy of the two nations. It is taken to mean the formal announcement of their alliance in Eastern affairs. Edward Green, husband of Hetty Green, known as the richest woman in America, died at his home in Bellows Falls, Vt. He had been ill a long time with a complication of diseases. In payment of a freak bet on the Mc-Goveru-Sullivan tight, Ed Dameron, a lumber worker, swam the Ohio river at Louisville, Ky. He was covered with Ice after accomplishing the feat. The laudsthing, the Danish upper house, in committee of the whole and in executive session, voted to ratify the treaty providing for the sale of the Danish West Indies to the United States. Thomas E. Burns, veteran baseball player and manager, for eleven years one of the quartet of great infielders that marde the Chicago National League team famous, died of heart disease in New York. Harry A. Garfield of Cleveland, a son of Pr esident Garfield, has been offered the position of civil service commissioner to succeed William A. Kodenberg, resigned. Mr. Garfield declined the appointment. As a result of the revolution in Wudai, which was followed by tierce fighting, 'he Sultan, Ahmed, has been deposed and Mohammed Dudu, sou of the former Sultan Josef, has been proclaimed Bultan in hie stead. Lieutenant dropped at West Point for weakness in mathematics has returned wounded from the Philippines, where he fought fifty bolomen single-handed, killing three and holding the rest till reenforcements arrived. A sensation baa been caused in Vienna by the discovery of a plot to destroy the Austro-Hungarian warships Habsburg and Arpad, which are stationed at I’ola. A large quantity of dynamite was recently stolen at Trieste and the government has been informed by an anonymous letter that the Halmburg and Arpad were imperiled. Reese Evans and A. A. Smith fought a duel with Winchesters at eight feet distance at Purdy Station, Nev. Each received injuries from which death resulted. The qu*ml was over a strip of alxnost worthless land.