Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 May 1902 — NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS.

The condition of Queen Wilhohnina continues to improve. All daugcr in past now. Hichard Rartholdt of St. Louis was re nominated for Congress for the sixth time by the Republicans of the tenth Missouri district. Rev. William T. Brown of l’lytnouth. Congregational Church, llochcstcr, X. Y. w ho married I‘rofcssor Herron and .Miss Hand, has left the ministry. .1. W. Voigbt, a traveling salesman for the Milwaukee Harvester Company, fatally shot May Welch and killed himself by shooting in a Minneapolis hotel President Roosevelt laid the corner stone of the McKinley Memorial Ohio College of (iovernment of the American I’niversity at Washington. Bishop Willard l'\ Mallalieu of Boston presided. Leaders in finance, journalism and polities attended a farewell bam|Uet given at I’nion League Club, New York, to Whitelaw Reid, special ambassador ‘ attend the coronation of King Kdward. I>r. F. J. Leadbrooke and Miss Winnie Booth, aged 111. daughter of a Methodist minister at Moscow, Idaho, committed suicide by taking hypodermic injections of morphine in a hotel at < >ro Pino. Idaho. Hr. A. A. Bondman's damage suit for fIoO.OUO against his father-in-law, ,1. 11. Beckham, was compromised at Kansas City. Plaintiff is said to have received JJO.OOO and Mrs. Uoodmau was given a divorce. The steandio.it South Hakota, .1. I.uch captain and owner, was burned at the first lauding north of (irecnwood. Nell., while on a trip up the Missouri. The loss is Passengers uni crew escaped. Muhlnu P. Miller, a St. Paul manufacturer, filed a voluntary bankruptcy petition with liabilities alleged by creditors to reach and assets of only *l.OOll. Miller den leu about fli,000.000 of liabilities. John Wanamuker is said to have made an offer of I'J.oOtt.ooo for the Metropolitan Opera House in New York, which he would turn into a department store. Lewis Nixon, leader of Tammany, rc» signed, charging that every move must be vised by Richard Croker, and that he coaid no longer remain at the head of the organisation and retain his self-respect. The post office of Monroe. lowa, was rnbtxsl by burglars. The safe was blown open with dynnmltc and several hundred dollars' woith of stamps were taken. The explosion wrecked a part of the building.