Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1902 — NEWS NUGGETS [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS

Damage of SIOO,OOO by fire resulted at 'Ladyamith, It. C., because there wns no available water Rupply. Joseph Anthony, Clarence Johnson and Lee Watt are supposed to have been drowned by the breaking of a levee near Memphis, Term. It. B. Craddock of Kansas City,' Mo., brother of Mayor William 11. Craddock of KnnsaH City, Kan., shot and -killed himself because of ill health. 'L'he Krnnd jury at Telluride, Colo., returned fifty-aeven indictments in connection with the miners’ riot and murder i*f Manager Collins in 1901. Walter J. Hill, son of President J. J. llill of the Great Northern Railway, has been suspended front his duties in the auditing department for not attending strictly to business. Advices from the Turkish frontier ray that twenty-four Macedonian workmen who were returning to their own country, have been killed by Turkish frontier .guards near Duh^txa. Mail advices from Pekin announce that the Kmpresa Dowager of China prol*osea to abdicate next year. There ia almost a panic among the chief officials of the empire in consequence. In the course of a long statement in the British House of Commons Premier Balfour said there was no such tiling ss a “pacific blockade.” A state of war actually existed with Venezuela, ho declared. Express Messenger Colson was killed and Mail Clerks Kelley and ltiggs and Fireman Durr badly Injured lit a wreck ol the south bound limited Alabama Great Southern Railroad near Moundville, Ala. Because his wife objected to his removing hl» boots in the house, James Evans, a farmer near Kearney,, Neb., destroyed all his property and killed lilmttelf. He was. married a month ago at the Hgc of HO. J ltd ge v M unger, in the federal court in Omaha, discharged the twenty-seven Union Pacific striker* charged with contempting in maintain a "picket line” and intimidating workmen. The court ruled that the evidence was insufficient. John Plannerlo shot Mary Novaks in Cleveland because she refused to marry ldm. The girl is said to he not seriously liort. Half mi hour later, when about to Is l nrrested by the police, Planuerie shot himself through the heart, dying within a few minutes. The |K>stoffice safe at Granville, Ohio, was blown open with dynamite by two or more men, who escaped in n rig stolen from Restaurant Keeper Bailey’s bum. Two charges of dynamite were used to wreck the safe, and the men departed with the plunder before anyone readied the office.