Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 February 1903 — NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS.

Judge Lowry nt Holly Springs, Mo*., Instructed the grand jury to indict, progressive euchre players. Andrew Carnegie has decided to give IXOO,OOO to Western Reserve University pf Cleveland to establish a school for the training of librarians. The bodies of six Mexicans, who had frozen to death, were found on the river eight miles above Goliad, Texaa. They were Inabel Rodriquez, her four children and Helen Vasques. Uncle Sam has decided to ‘‘pay off” Liliuokalani, former queen of the Hawaiian Islands. She will get $200,<300 in full satisfaction of all claims she may have ngainst the United States. The Island of Tutuiln and the Samoan group genernlly hnve been visited by n tremendous hurricane. The fury of the wind both on land and on sen was terrific, and great damage was done. The United States Court nt Trenton, N. J., awarded Rev. Henry P. Johnson of Camden, N. J„ SSOO in his SIO,OOO suit against the Pullman Compauy because he was refused service in a dining car. The /large freight depot of the Atchison, Topeka and Santu Fe road at Fourteenth and Hickory streets, Kansas City, and ninety freight cars, with their contents, were destroyed by fire. The damage is estimated at SIOO,OOO. Rather than to go to the Philippines, to which his troop had been ordered, Private McDonald of the Thirteenth cavalry, while in the barracks at Fort Jveogh, Mont., committed suicide by shooting himself with a revolver. In a desperate battle with Winchesters st Wright's coal works In Raleigh Coun ty, W. Va., between striking coal minors and a force of United States deputy marshals eight persona were killed and sixteen wounded, two of them mortally. The car sheds and sixty-seven cars of the St. Louis and Suburban Railway Company at I»e Hodiamont, Mo., were destroyed by fire, causing a loas estimated at nearly S2OO,CMtO. The origin of the fire Is not known, but It is said to have started from un’electric wire. The Wells-Fargo Express Company has established a pension system affecting every branch of the service and every locality. All employes over 00 years of age who have been in the service for twenty years or more will be pensioned. The action is retroactive, dating from Jan. 1.