Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 February 1903 — NEWS NUGGETS, [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS,

The Seaeoast Canning Company has been, incorporated in New Jersey with a capital of $2,000,<|00. Rear Admiral John F. Merry, retired, was granted a divorce from his wife on the grounds of. confirmed habits of intoxication. A (barter lias been issued at Harrisburg, Pa., to die Henry Iloclofs Company, Philadelphia,capital $2,000,000, for the manufacture of lints. The spike and part of the horseshoe department of the Tredegar iron works at ltichinond, Y’a., were destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at SIOO,OOO. Lady Victoria Murry has ordered n corner stone from the quarries at Concord, N. 11., to be used in the first Christian Church to be erected in England. The Crown Prince of Saxony lias been granted a divorce from the former Crown Princess Louise, after several physicians had given expert testimony in the case. Sir Charles Gavan Duffy, the former Irish lender, man of letters and. prime minister of Victoria, died at Nice, lie was lioru at Monaghan, Ireland, in 1810. The new cup defender will he named Republic. This was announced at llristol, It. 1., by F. It. Tucker, nephew of J. H. Hcrreslmff of the firm building the yacht. Women managers of a Dallas, Texas, benefit sale condemned handkerchief sent by Mrs. Roosevelt to be sold, on ground that it was too cheap, and voted to return it. The chain holding a huge ladle containing a mass of molten metal in a steel plant at Pueblo, Colo., Ivoke and J. Kuplick, W. 11. Hartman and John Lepioli were killed. John W. Pratt, a well-known newspaper man and lawyer, in a tit of insanity killed himself with a shotgun nt Seattle. Wash, llis mind had been unbalance I for a year. In one of the daily riots incident to the strike of shoemakers at Boston F. J. MeQuade of Chicago, a non-union workman, was seriously injured and was taken to a hospital. Fire in the Rock Island, 111., arsenal did $2,000,000 damage, destroying principal storehouse. Heat exploded 1,000,000 rounds of cartridges, endangering the lives of the firemen. It Is expected that for economy of operation tiie Cleveland I'nion Stockyards Company hiu! tiie Farmers' and Drovers' Stockyards Company of Cleveland will combine, with capital of SBOO,OOO. Gennaro Rubino, tiie Italian anarchist, who has been on trial sine© Feb. (!, charged with attempting to assassinate King Leopold Nov. 15, was found guilty and sentenced to imprisonment for life. Guatemala is at war with Honduras and Salvador. Guatemala is sending troops to the frontier to prevent the federation which Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua declare they will cstnlillsh. Supreme Court Justice Gnynor, sitting in Brooklyn ruled that strike pickets have a right to peaceably patrol streets, and the jury returned n verdict for damages in two eases In favor of members of labor unions. Mrs. George Wilson, night signal tower operator nt Virginia utid Charleston Railroad at Walston, I*a., was attacked hy a man who tried to thrust her head Into a hot stove; trnin which she stopped bydanger signal brought relief. Fire caused by the explosion of an automatic burner in the Pennsylvania Railroad shops nt Pitcairn, Pa., destroyed the passenger ear repair section and cabinet sliojf, entailing a loss of $15,000. Over one hundred men were at Work in these departments, nnd they barely escaped with their lives. An attempt to hide robbery nnd murder resulted in the wrecking by dynamite rs an Italian boarding house at Portage, Pn. Two persons are dead, two are injured and a score of others hod miraculous escapes from death when the explosive let go.