Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1902 — NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS.

The damage by the flood in the Fountain river at Pueblo, Colo., is estimated at $300,000. Cass Daweron shot and killed his wife and committed suicide at Denver. Both were circus performers. Ben Bowen, an aeronaut, fell from his balloon Into a lake at Manhattan Beach, near Denver, and was drowned. Paul J. Sorg. former Congressman nnd millionaire tobacco manufacturer, died at his home in Middletown, Ohio, after an illness of several years. The postoffice at Girard. Ohio, was entered by burglars, who blew the safe and secured $582 in stamps. There is no clew to the perpetrators. Miss Delhi Wileox, daughter of ('apt. T. H. Wilcox, a prominent citizen of Murray, Ky.. shot nnd killed herself while despondent over a love affair. Congressman Charles Curtis of the first Kansas district has formally announced himself a candidate for the United States Senate, to succeed Senator Martin. The Great Northern flyer was wrecked just east of Ojatn, N. D„ while running nt full speed. The only person hurt is Frank Heffron, mail clerk, whose back was wrenched. Robert L. Huntington, nephew of the late Collis P. Huntington. has disappear cd from Denver and Is accused of taking $1,200 from bis employers, the Colorado Telephone Company. A dispatch from St. Petersburg snya: •‘Secret service officers arrested a young woman nt Tsarskoe-Selo, the summer residence of the Czar, carrying an Infefiial machine concealed in a handkerchief. Henry W. Mayers, a tubular well matt, while putting in a Well nt Gracevlll«, Minn., nnd preparing a charge of dynamite, wns kilhsi by a premature expiation. His assistant wns fatally injured. With a dynamite cartridge between hjs t«idh. Adnm Kaufman seated himself nurtcr a tree at Meriden, Conn., and calmly lighted the fuse. He wns blown to pideej. Kaufman was a well known local aatrcfiiat. Frank Ilobinaou of Nevada. lowa, ghdt bls sweetheart. Gertrude Rawlins, to death, wounded Albert P. Ferguson, his rival, npd then fired a bullet close td Ills twn heart The tragedy was in small hotel in Kansas City, and wifs Que to the fact that Robinson had be<*i Supplanted by Ferguson in the glrl'h nt ’ectiong. • • A distinct earthquake shock pas felt n Chattanooga, Tenn. It wns nccoidinnlcrf Ity n low rumbling sound. Hoiisito were shaken, 'rhe short’ hrsted fnr *sveral seconds. Many persona were awakened and greatly frightcmsl.