Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1903 — NEWS NUGGETS [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS

Macedonian revolutionary leaders will inaugurate rebellion on April 1. according to Berlin newspaper dispatch. John Fickler, convicted of robbing a mail currier, was sentenced at St. Louis to the penitentiary for life and twenty years more. A disjiatgh to the London Daily Mail from Shanghai says a landslide occurred nt Nankin, resulting in the drowning of Chinamen. Warren, the 'J year old son of William Cason of Covington, Ky., was burned to death. The baby tripped on a rug and fell into an open fire. C. S. Do Forest, a dry goods merchant of Shelton. Conn., has offered his store for two weeks to six local churches, which are to keep the profits. Eire in Brown Brothers’ furniture store on Ontario street. Cleveland, did damage estimated nt SIOO.(HH>. The fur nitnre store of Nathan A. Shall lias damaged $50,01 Ml. Burglars ransacked the residence of Mrs. Adelaide Anderson nt Miimcnpolis. and carried oft 100 pounds of anthracite coal in sacks. They did not touch jewelry and plate. In Juarez. Mexico, a bullfighter was fatally gored in the presence of 5.000 spectators, largely Americana. Many of those who attended were women, who accompanied their husbands. Senator Beveridge asserted Wednesday that the opposition to the omnibus state hood bill, which has been the regular order in the Senate for over a month, has •ecured enough votes to defeat it. The big factory building of A. Lunn & Co., of Camden. N. J., was destroyed by fire. The loss, which is eathnnted at $130,000, is distributed among a number of firms who occupied the building. Railways of the United States plan to expend this year in betterments and extensions about $300,000,000. Central Passenger Association fixes up rate differences and agrees to maintain tariffs. Both houses of Congress quickly passed the bill suspending for one year the tariff duties on coal. The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee offered a resolution proposing s. izure of the mines by the government. While hundreds of skaters were making merry on the bathing basin near the Washington monument in Washington the ice gave way, precipitating twenty or more persons into the water. It is known that three skaters lost their lives. The British embassy in Constantinople has secured the issue of an imperial irade granting the Khedivial Navigation Company of Alexandria. Egypt, the same privileges sos its ships, to go hence through the Ifardanelles without stopping, as enjoyed by other conipanics. It. A. Rigsby. professor in a Macon, Ga., business college, was shot and killed by Mrs. Effie Carson, teacher of telegraphy in another college. The tragedy occurred in the law office of Col. M. G. Payne, where. It is said. Rigsby and Mrs. Carson had met to adjust difference*.