Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1902 — Short News Notes. [ARTICLE]

Short News Notes.

Jesse Rule, a retired merchant, was stabbed to death nt Catlettsburg, Ky., by Fred Burchett, a timberman. Mrs. Plumb, widow of the late Senator Plumb, has given a site worth $2,000 for the Carnegie library at Emporia, Kan. The Frisco road has purchased ground at Fort Scott, Kan., and will soon rebuild and enlarge its car shops there. New York city officials have been enjoined from carrying out a contract for paring a rival of the asphalt trust, at the instance of the latter The Odd Fellows Orphans’ Home at Checotah, I. T., will be ready for occupancy about Sept. 20. Checotah secured the home by donating 160 acres of laud. The Japanese government has virtually decided to participate in the Louisiana Purchase Exposition and has commenced to prepare estimates for that proposition. The appropriation will amount to about 2,500,000 yen and the Japanese delegates have already been decided upon. E. A. Sweet, trainmaster at Lns Vegas, N. M., was appointed to succeed D. E. Cain as assistant general manager of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe RailwTfy system. Neat SaJinn Cruz, on the Pacific side of the isthmus of Tehuantepec, a giant geyser has broken tint as the result of heavy earthquakes occurring in that see* tion since April 18 last. The column of water rises to a height of about fifty feet, roars and hisses from among the rocks and is an object of great interest to the people and to passing vessels, being plainly visible from the sea.