Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1902 — NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS.

Poisoning from Panama lints packed In sulphur caused the death of George C. Davis, who shaped the huts in a Baltimore factory. Swarthtnore College, Pennsylvania, has completed a fund of $400,000 required to secure services of Prof. Joseph Swain of the University of Indiana. The dead body of au unknown negro was found hanging to a tree near Newport News, Ya. Investigation by a coroner's jury showed the negro had been lynched. All the steamship lines merged into the great combine have agreed to prolong indefinitely the rate agreement entered into two mouths ngo and which was to lust until June Id. Mrs, Harry Churchill, formerly Miss Olga Pries of Omaha, for whom the Chicago police have been looking by request of her mother, who feared she had met a tragic end, is said to be working in Kansas City. William Strother, the negro bath attendant who was arrested last January for the murder of A. Deane Cooper, the millionaire proprietor, in St. I.ouis, pleaded guilty and will serve fifteen years in the Missouri State penitentiary. J. L. Cannon, n Kansas City trackman, and C. N. Brooks, subcontractor, of Vernon, Texas, were instantly killed at Wildman, Ok., by the premature explosion of a blast. Three others were seriously but not fatally injured. Five hundred excursionists on an Erie train returning from Greenwood Lake to New York had a thrilling time. The driving rod of the engine broke anti the train dashed down a grade for three miles. It was fiunll.v stopped by uu upgrade.

By means of a noose, improvised with a bathrobe and towels, Miss Alice Levis, 23 years old, the daughter of a wealthy merchant of Bt. Louis, ended her life at u hotel in New York City. She Is supposed to have killed herself in a fit of melancholy superinduced by ill health. Telegrams received at St. Paul sny the town of Michel, B. C., was destroyed by fire Monday, Flumes started in ,the residence section shortly after 1 o’clock. The wind blew u hurricane, and In less tlinn four boars twenty-four houses were lu ashes. About fifty families are homeless. 'The Crow’s Pass Coal Company’s loss is 930,000. Cu uudiun Pacific curs were burned at n loss to the company of about 910.000, and traffic delayed six to tcu hours.

A tornado struck twelve miles north of Lake Park, Minn., sweeping a strip of land two miles wide and three miles long. It destroyed nine farm houses and killed ten persons. The third trial of Jessie Morrison, who killed Mrs. Ollu Castle, hus begun at Eldorado. Kan. An application for a diangeof venue has been refused. Guatavus Dirk*, formerly a Chicagoan, and known as the newspaper artist who originated the "Bugville” sketches, ended his life In New York by putting a bullet in his'bantu. Dirks had been in had health fur some time.