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

BREVITIES.

Six hundred Wilkesbnrre carpenters mid joiners are on strike because tlie building contractors refused to grant nn increase of wages from $2.50 to $3 a day. Charles Gurley, the negro slayer of Rosie Higgins, was hanged in tlie jail yard in St. Louis. Gurley killed a col ored woman with whom he had been living. 'Die correspondent of tlie Standard at Tien tsin telegraphs the rumor that the Empress Dowager is dead, tlie-news having been concealed until the New Year observances. A small tornado passed over Seagoville, Tex., injuring four persons, how badly it is not known. Those injured were pupils in the public school, which was destroyed along with a private residence. Tlie monthly coinage statement shows that the total coinage executed at the mints of the United States during January, was $9,5C>3,085,. us follows: Gold, $7,635,178; silver. $ 1.707,9tM); minor coins, $220,910. Charles Friek. a nephew of tlie coke magnate and son of Edgar P. Friek of Wooster, Ohio, proved himself a hero by rescuing Miss Lena Kettler, the chum of ids sister, from drowning after she bad gone down twice. Tlie Dublin Otlieial Gazette has announced that the proclamation issued last year placing thirteen districts in Ireland under the Crimes act and mni'ituining suniinnry jurisdiction by 1 lie magistrates is revoked. During a heavy gale fire broke out in tlie business section of Middlebury. Vt., and before it could be controlled six blocks, two halls, a planing mill and other property were destroyed. The loss is estimated at $159,000. James Kilroy, union picket, charged with the murder of the non-union foreman of the Gauger Manufacturing Company, was acquitted in Chicago. Judge Brentnno declared the verdict is a direct stab at the heart of justice. Two 10-yeiir-old girls, named Reeves mid Curtis, have confessed that they set fire to tlie dormitories iu tlie State industrial school at Ogden, Utah. They said that the tire was part of a plot for a genera) escape by tlie girls. Rice brought to this country from Japan in two steamers being built by James J. Hill will be milled mid converted into various articles at St. I’anl. Mr. Hili proposes to make that city the «enter of the rice trade in this'country. Dr. Charles H. Parkhurst declares tliat he is meeting with the support of millionaires in a project to provide mi ideal dully newsptqier for tlie public, to l»e issued in New York City. How far lie lias gone with the details <>f the scheme he refuses to say. Mrs. John Newell, living near Glass postoffice, Ohio, wax killed and her two young sons fatally injured by an «xplosiou of what was supposed to be tin empty nitroglycerin can, which the boya had brought to their mother and which she was attempting to clean. The house was demolished.