Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1902 — News of Minor Note. [ARTICLE]

News of Minor Note.

Fifty carloads of threshing machines left Kansas City one day recently for the grain belt of Kansas, Nebraska and Dakota. President Theodore Roosevelt, Harvard 'BO, has just presented the library of the Harvard Union with a full set of his works. New York police officials are making war on the pool rooms in the metropolis. Sheriff E. J. Mngerstadt of Cook County wants the Republican nomination for Mayor of Chicago. Former City Treasurer Philip Gerst of Buffalo, N. Y., indicted for complicity in the defalcations in his office, which resulted in his bondsmen being forced to make good to the extent of about ?40,OX), pleaded guilty and was fined fI,(XX), which he paid. He was then released. The 80-aere apple orchard of J. D. Haren, ten miles southeast of llinwntlia, Kan., has been totally destroyed by canker worms. Less than a week before the orchard looked fine and was in full b 100 tn. The worms have enten every leaf and Mr. Hazen says that all bls trees will be killed as a result.