Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1902 — NEWS NUGGETS [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS

Andrew Carnegie lias given $75,000 for a public library at Belfast. T!h> rotmiiiis of John W. Mucluiy, who died in London July 20, will be brought to the United States. Booth Tarkitigtiin was elected to the legislature at Indianapolis, running slightly ahead of his ticket. I.aura liiggar lias given herself up to the sheriff at Freehold, X. J., because of the charges against her in connection with the Bennett estate. \V. (). Davis, a merchant of Charleston. \V. Va., was assaulted and robbe.l and left for dead in a vacant lot. lie expired soon after he was found. Advices from Guatemala say that 200,000- hundred-weight of this year’s coffee crop was lost as a result of the eruption of the volcano Santa Maria. The Minnesota Harvester Company, with a capital of $5,000.0*10, has been incorporated at St. Paul. Its object is believed to be to fight the, big harvester combine. Dr. G. I. Cook, said to have practiced medicine In Ohio for thirty years, is lead at the New York hospital from morphine poisoning. He was 7S years old, and rdtninistered the poison himself Senor Concha, Colombian minister to the United States, has been directed ly Ids government to renew negotiations of the canal treaty, without reference to the complaint agHlnst Admiral Casey. The Holland submarine boat Grampus had her first surface trial trip at San Francisco, and so far ns the test went, proved a success. She made nine knots, a knot more speed ihnu the contract calls for. , A heavy trolley car on the Broadway line in Kansas City jumped the track nt Fifth and Broadway and crashed into a saloon. Two pass< tigers, a woman and a negro, were killed, and six others were injured. The Santa Fe railway system has announced an increase of 1 per cent per hour per day for about 1,200 of their skilled tradesmen in metal work and helpers on the iimiti line between Chicago and Albmpienpie. Practically every foundry in Cleveland. Ohio, manufacturing light gray iron, lias been closed down as a result of the inolders going ort strike. About 700 men are affected. They demand an increase ranging from 10 to 15 per cent. Commander Thomas J. Stewart, the recently elected chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, lias announced that he has formally taken up the duties of his new office, and has Issued his inaugural address to the old soldiers. With a fortune of SIOO,OOO to be turned over to him, John H. Heaton, of Havre De Grace, Md., died suddenly, following u stroke of paralysis, believed to have been caused by excitement idative to receipt of the good news. Tlie Idg iron furnace of the River Furnace and Dock Company in Cleveland, blew up with terrilie force. Although fully 125 men were at work near the furnace no one was seriously injured. A number, however, sustained severe bruises and cuts. I>. C. Montgomery, superintendent of schools in the island of Negros, was murdered by ladrotiPH throe miles from Harolod. Mr. Montgomery was going to Bacolod for a consultation with the «u;»eriutendent and to assume control of the division. He tind a large sunt of money fwith him.