Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1903 — NEWS NUGGETS [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS

.Mrs. .Limes A. Alx-runtU.V; 1 lu* "sleepinir wimiaii'’ of St. Louis, whose case puzzled physicians, died the ether day. ' Thirty people went down an embankment in a street ear at Marion, lml. Many were injured, two probably fatally. There is much suffering among settlers in eastern Colorado and hundreds of cattle are perishing as result of blizzards. Twelve thousand miners in the Kbit Top coal field in West Virginia will be given alt advance in wages of 10 to 20 per cent. The remains of Mrs. Jessie lienton Fremont have been cremated at Los Angeles in accordance with her expressed desires. Profits of J. I*. Morgan for the year are estimated at S42,(HMUKM>. (onerous gift to employes on New Year's day is expected. Germany's naval budget for 100 b calls for the construction of two battle ships, one armored cruiser, two small cruisers and live torpedo boats. The livening Herald of Helmut. Mont., the oldest paper in the State, has been purchased by the Hailv Record of Helena, which nill issue an evening edition. A naptha pipe leaked during the night at I’ottsdale, Pa., and the gas settled over the city, invading every house and Imperiling the lives of thousands of the inhabitants. The Hattie* Creek lteview and Herald Adventist printing plant, the largest publishing house in Michigan, has been destroyed by tire. Loss. $500,000; insur anee, SI<KUK*I. Because burglars got hut $2 in the cash drawer of Mendel Bauer's saloon at Cleveland, they turned on the spigots and allowed iftiOO worth of liquor to mil into the eellar. Fire broke out in the Star Tli eiter at Atlanta, Ga.. and that building, together with the contents, is a total loss. The building is four stories high and is in the business secti.ui ot the city. Postmaster Cornelius Van Cott, of New York, has i insed the arrest of Kilim Rnnmi and Willis T. Gridley on eluirges id financial irregularities, l>y which he has lost, his entire fortune. The Agricultural Department bulletin reports winter wheat acreage of I'nitrd ►stales for 1! M)2, 28.581,426, witii -111. 788,666 bushels prod net ion ; corn acreage, 04,043,613: production, 2,523,11(8,'112. Fire which broke out in a general merehaiulise store in Wetnmpka, Ala . destroyed ;m entire block of two-story brick buildings and caused a loss of over Slid. • XHt, partly covered by insurance. The block destroyed constituted the business •.'liter of the town. Correspondence received from Yoko hinini by the steamer Tartar includes details of it horrible baby farming emu sjdrucy in Osaka. An elderly woman, her married daughter, husband and two other persons have been arrested for infanticide. Since they started operations this year SCO children have been killed.