Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1902 — NEWS NUGGETS [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS

The first snow of the season fell on Luke Superior. (loorge Veaely, 18 years ohl. dropped (lead while performing on a horizontal bar at Baltimore. At Arcadia, Neb., burglars blew ojam the (rostottiee safe and secured .f- 1 M and made their escape. Escaping from n passenger train a Ko homo man drove his automobile into a crowd and injured twelve persons. Swift & Co.’s teamsters in Chicago went out on strike. Alleged discrimination against union men caused the trouble. Herbert Short of Cleveland, X. Y.. was shot atftl mortally wounded in the Adirondaeks in mistake for a deer by his companion. The American battleship lowa ran aground near Cape Mossa, Scnhorn. Brazil. The lowa had finished target practice and was returning to Friars' Island. Five persons were kilhsl and ten were wounded in a eontliet between the troops and strikers at Candela, a small town of Apulia, in the extreme southeastern part of Italy. A general order issued from the headquarters of the Union Veterans’ Fnion calls the seventeenth national encampment of the union in Washington Oct. 0, 10 and 11. - The Boer generals failed to induce Chamberlain to discuss proposals at recent conference in London which were rejectes! during the peace negotiations at Vereeniging. Hen. B. M. O’Reilly, who mice *eds (leu. William 11. Forward as surgeon general of the army, hus entered formally on tin* discharge of the duties of his uew office at Washington. Mrs. Anna .1. Bickford of Albert la*a, Minn., died at Waseca as the result of injuries received in the wris-k of the Northwestern train which was blown from the tracks near Meriden. The Cuban House passed the $35,000,000 loan bill, 48 to 2; bonds to be issued at 00, with 5 per cent maximum interest. Agricultural industry to get $4,000,000 loan; balance will pay army and constitutional obligations. Heorge W. Shoemaker, for eight years postmaster ut Albany, Mo., a lawyer and a |Nditickan of State prominence, was •rateneed to prison for ten years at Albany on a charge of defrauding the county on school fund loans. A great whale hunt took place at Hills wich, in tlie Shetland islands. A school of he’rring whales was reported approaching the village and thi entire fishing population put to sea aboard of everythin" that would Host. They drove the whales ashore and slaughtered ltHi of them. James Moduli, the husband of the woman whose dead body was found in a pasture field at Hubbard, Ohio, was cap™r«l in Newcastle, and luis confessedthe crime. McHinu said hv was insanely lealoua of his wife, and every time he got 4ruuJ< determined to put her out of the •way.