Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1902 — NEWS NUGGETS [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS

Congressman John IV Corliss has been renominated by the First Michigan J >istriet Republicans. Five hundred cnretnakers struck at Cincinnati, Ohio, on account of a misunderstanding about apprentices. Mrs. Clinton H. Fiske was re-elected president of the Woman’s Home Missionary Society at Kansas City. Mo. Admiral Schley was given a handsome loving cup at the City Park, Dallas. Texas. The cup was the gift of the city. Miss Alice Roosevelt is said to lie engaged to John Green way of llot Springs, Ark., a lieutenant of the Rough Riders. I'niversity of Chicago trustees voted to segregate men and women students for two years; thirteen out of sixteen favored the policy. Judge W. L. Windom at Duluth, in the case of A. T. Spark, county sttperi it aideut of schools, decided that ail assignment of salary is void. Melancholy resulting from illness prompted I>r. Frederick Roland N'ordmun, a well-known Italtimore physician, to end his life by shooting. Fire destroyed the freight sheds of the Villon Steamboat Company on Marine slip, near the foot of Michigan street, I!u(T:ilo, N. \ . The total loss is catmint *<l at $75,000. The Standard Oil Company has closed a deal with the owners of the Wheeling Natural (las Company by which the Standard will take control. The price paid is said to have hcen s‘_\siKl,o<M. Col. Mushy.' special agent of the Interior Department, reports that cattle raisers are illegally occupying millions of acres of public lands in the West which ought to lie open to homestead settlers. A daughter was horn tlie other lay to Mrs. I,eivis Rutherford Morris, who was formerly Miss Katherine Clark, daughter of the millionaire Senator from Mont mu. Tile child is even now heiress to $211.000,(KNI. Chief PoHtottlcc Inspector Cochran has received a cablegram announcing tin- arrest of Ramon Ruiz, the postmaster at Juana Diaz, l’orto Rico, for etnliezzlement of money order funds. Ruiz has confessed. According to the Onlooker Queen Alexandra has promised to he godmother to the sou of the Duke and Duchess of Manchester. formerly Mlhs Zimmerman of Cincinnati, and the child will be nani.-d Alexander. Marion Nolan, known on the stage as the “California Venus,” was shot and killed at San Francisco by Edward Marselmts, a stenographer. who blew out bis own brains. The actress is said to have repelled ids advances. / The suit of Mrs. Minerva Nlutz nr Now Rochelle, X. Y.. whose husband was killed In the I’nrk avenue tunnel crash on Jan. 8 Inst, resulted in the jury at White Plains bringing in a vordi t lor $58,500 damages against the New York Central Railp >nd. Word haa bean received from the north that the whaling catch of San Francisco vessels up to Sept. 2 was as follows: Alexander, eight whales; Beluga Clean, Bowhend. Narwhal, Thrasher and Belvedere, two each; Jeunettc, Penelope and William Bay las. four each, and the Jxarluk uni Altidr, three each.