Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1902 — NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS.

Earthquakes are reported'to have occurred simultaneously in twenty towns of Asin Minor. Many houses collapsed. C. J. McAllister, the young man arrested while trying to enter the Whitt* House With a revolver, is insane over disaje pointment in love. -’■ Hehry Onfield. 75 years old, killed his wife and himself at Morrison, 111., because of jealousy. The couple had been married fifty years. American money ami enterprise are behind $25,000,000 interurban traction system in Englund, principal promoters being New Yorkers. Official figures at port of New Y'ork show 493.38$ immigrants arrived in the fiscal year ended July 1, which is an increase of 87>.000 over last year. A march called the "Parade March of the Marine Division,” composed by Admiral Prince Henry of Prussia, has been brought out by a publisher of Leipsic. Ernest M. Gray, one of the best known mining men of Cripple Creek, killed him self by putting a bullet through his head. Gray had been losing in mining deals. * A bunch of 2-year-old black cattle averaging 1.286 pounds sold on-the Kansas City market the other day for $8.35 per hundred, which is the highest price on record. Edwin and Thomas Baleh of Philadelphia are in St. Petersburg for the purpose of collecting information and material with regard to the boundaries of Alaska. Frank McNamara, a sergeant on the Kansas City police force, was shot and killed by Abe Emerson, a negro, whom he was seeking to arrest. Emerson was shot twice ami will die. Minnesota Republican convention renominated Gov. Van Sant, approved the fight against the railroad merger, indorsed President Roosevelt for re-election, and declared for modifications of the tariff alid reciprocity.

Cn|4nin Krivetsky of the Russian army lias been sentenced to imprisonment for two years ami six months by a court martial which was held nt I’altava for having accepted brilies to free recruits from military service. The first loss of life during the anthracite strike occurred at the William A. colliery at Duryea. Pit. Antonio Giuseppe, an Italian, was shot dead by otje of the Coal and. Iron policemen from behind the stockade of the colliery. Three Wabash Kailroad laborers and two Italians met at Mingo Jiiucthdi. ()., and a quarrel ensued over a chew of tobacco. One Italian was stabbed to death with bis own stiletto, taken from him by a Wabash workman. The grand jury investigated the death of Mae Thompson, who died after wearing a beauty mask prescribed for her complexion by E. W. Johnson. No true bill was found against the "beauty doctor” and he has been released from jail. Alexander A. Robertson, member of the Salt Lake City Couucjl and paying tellet; in Wells-Fargo's bank, who disappeared recently and whose accounts at the bunk are said to show a shortage between $85,006 and IWtl.tJitO, Ihis given himself tip to the police. United States District Attorney Gould announced in the- Probate Court that William 8. Yeatmnn, formerly disburse Ing clerk of the War Department in Washington, ka» n defaulter at the time of hia death on April 2(». 1901. So far ns known the alleged defalcation amount* |o about 118,000.