Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1902 — NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS.

The Countess De (’astellane, formerly Anna Gould of New York, has given birth to a son. Extra session of Maryland Legislature eompletisl its business and adjourned In two and a half hours. The ferry that crosses the Danube near Orsova, a Servian frontier town, sunk. Seventeen persons were drowned. Anton Adler, 36 years of age. shot and fatally wounded his wife, Lizzie, six years his senior, at St. Louis, while in a jealous frenzy. President Roosevelt has decided to appoint John S. Clarkson, former First Assistant Postmaster General, surveyor of the port of New York. It is announced that the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks has purchased the Hotel Bedford at Bedford City, Ya., and will convert the building into a national Elks' home. Isaiah Rhodes of Bailey's Gap, N. Y., announces that his daughter, Mrs. James McGowan, aged 28, of Tucker's Corners, gave birth to five children, all girls, and that all are doing well.

Prominent Seattle business men and politicians have announced their intention to construct a railroad from Resurrection bay through central Alaska to Rampart City—s 74 miles. The Senate voted to extend the provisions of the present Chinese exclusion act until Dec. 7, 1904, and applied them to the Philippines and other insnlar possession* of the United "States. A courier who arrived at Canton the other day reported that more than 2,000 imperialist soldiers sent by Marshal Hu against the rebels were ambushed in a narrow defile and were killed or captured. Gunnery Lieut. 11. S. Bourne, Lieut. Miller and nine bluejackets were instantly killed by the bursting of a 12-inch gun on board the British first-class battleship Mars, during gun practice oft Berehuven. Australia. Mrs. Wallace E. King and her two children were burned to death in their home at Wallin, Mich. The tire, which started from an unknown cause, destroyed a store and two houses. The financial loss is >B,OOO. 'f*he Protestant Episcopal Church of the Savior on Thirty-eighth street. Phil- \ adelphia took fire and was soon destroyed. Surrounding property was in imminent danger. The loss is estimated at >150,000, covered by insurance. An infernal machine passed through the Grand Junction, Colo., poutotiiee and was delivered to Isaac (’. Wyiniisi, the Boston millionaire, to whom it was addressed. Mr. Wyman handled the package carefully and there was no exjjpaion. Gen. Malavar, Filipino insurgent leader and dictator, has surrendered himself and his command unconditionally and orders all Philippine insurgents to cease fighting. It is thought in Washington and Manila this practically ends the war. After drinking ten glasses of whisky, ten glasses of gin and ten cans of beer and eating twenty-four hard-boiled eggs for the edification of three white men, according to report, John Hamilton, 25 years old, colored, was found dead in Cincinnati. When Coroner Schwab viewed the remains Lena Davis told of the gormandising feat. The Bussian minister of the interior, M. Hiplagulne, was shot at ami fatally wounded in the lobby of the ministerial offices In St. Petersburg by a man who held a pistol close to the minister’s pet* •on.