Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 February 1903 — SUMMARY OF NEWS. [ARTICLE]

SUMMARY OF NEWS.

Friends of irrigation claim n great victory iu an opinion rendered by the Nebraska Supreme Court, which sustains the constitutionality of the Nebraska irrigation law, and with it grants the right of eminent domain to irrigation ci an panics. Swedish famine disaster can be averted only by quick forwarding of supplies; food needed by thousands of tons to keep 100,000 persons from starving; several towns of 5,000 population must hnyg, I. tons of flour besides provisions already sent. Cole Younger has been granted a full pardon in St. Paul, and under it will be permitted to return to ins old homo in Missouri. lie was out eti parole tor two years. The board of pardons secured a promise from him that, lie would not put himself on exhibition. Confidence men who identify rural visitors to the city by unshorn beards wifi have to discover a new distinguishing characteristic if the farmers of the country follow the lead of those composing the Rochester, N. Y., grange. The farmers decided whiskers were a discredit, and pledged themselves to shave regularly, A work train running forty miles an hour on the Baltimore and Ohio near Easton, Ohio, collided with a caboose and some coal cars that had broken away from a freight train. The caboose was demolished and Conductor William Miles of Newcastle was killed and Brakeman J. R. Cooney of the same place fatally injured. The Titusville (Pa.) Iron Company presented to all its employes who had been a year in the firm's employ with a sum of money amounting to 5 per cent of their earnings during that period. They also reduced the number of hours in a week's work to fifty, with a sufficient increase in pay to net a 10 per cent advance. Dr. George F. Shrady, editor of the Medical Record, and who was the physician to Gen. V. S. Grant, prints an article declaring that the birth rate in the United States is rapidly becoming as small as it is in France. He declares that the well-to-do woman is averse to I,earing children, and that she prefers a dog in the house to a baby. Secretary Root transmitted to the House of Representatives the other day an abstract of the returns made to the Adjutant General of the army by Adjutant Generals of the various States, showing the militia strength of the States to be ns follows: Officers, 8,921; enlisted men, 109,338. The aggregate number of persons in the United States available for militia duty is given as 10.853,396. C. A. Reeves of Philadelphia, a lion tamer, had a desperate encounter with a big Bengal tigress in a cage at’the .winter quarters of a circus in Syracuse, N. Y. Reeves had entered the cage to train the beast, when with n roar she sprang at his throat ami with her claws and teeth lacerated his head and shoulders and chewed his arm to the bone. Men armed with crowbars and hot irons entered the cage and dragged out Reeves.