Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 March 1903 — BREVITIES. [ARTICLE]

BREVITIES.

Mayor Julius Flelschmann, of Cincinnati, was renominated by the Republicans. It is estimated that over 3,000 head of cattle perished in Kansas during tiie recent storm. The Methodist Ministers’ Association adopted resolutions commending President Roosevelt’s negro policy. Thomas Tooncy, of Chicago, had bis right leg amputated at the knee in a trolley car collision near I’iqun, Ohio. John Hoffman of Springfield, Ohio, and William B. Kauffman of Little Rock were fatally injured in a collision near Spring Park, Mo. Reports from China show that the rebels in the northern districts nro gaining in strength and that foreigners ore openly threatened. Extension of the option on the Panama canal is the end which Attorney G moral Knox lias secured after considerable diplomatic negotiation. Louis Hoscnfield of Chicago lias secured a franchise at Louisville for a belt line that will increase facilities for transportation in the manufacturing district. Floods caused considerable damage near Pittsburg, but the water is subsiding. Farmers nlong the Wabash in Indiana lost about $150,000 through floods. Alfred Knapp, in explaining his confessions, said his sister betrayed him, and he determined to tell the story in order to make the family disgrace complete. The four-story tobacco warehouse nnd factory of M. Abenheim & Co., of New York, located at Farmville, Vn., was destroyed by fire, causing damage of #60,000. Though only 45 years old, Mrs. Cormack McCallis gave Birth the other day to her twenty-third child. • Mrs. MeCallis was married at tho age of 17 and resides in Ilazletou, Pa. Thousands of cattle dead and dying in the snow on the plains pan he seen from every railroad throughout the Colorado range country. The storms wrought havoc among the herds. Emma Bauch, 9 years old, swallowed the wooden mouthpiece of a toy balloon nnd died in the presence of the entire Sunday school of the Ainalee Presbyterian Church in Brooklyn, N. Y. The engines of a Missouri Pacific passenger and a freight train were telescoped In a wreck near Fort Sciftt, Kan., and Engineer James Garrett and Fireman Walter Smith were seriously injured. Information gathered from the general catalogue and the alumni association records shows that of the 1,835 women that have graduated from the University of Michigan only 533 have married since graduating. The tire loss of the United States nnd Canada for the month of February, 1903, as compiled from tile carefully kept records of tiie Journal of Commerce and Commercial Bulletin, shows a totul of #16,000,000. Fire starting on die eighth floor of the Dekum block, at 3d and Washington streets, Portland, Ore., caused a loss of #250,000. The building was of brick, eight stories high, 100x100, and ono of the finest structures in the city. At Philadelphia several thousand union garment workers struck for better conditions, higher pay and recognition of union, and several hundred carriage workers and painters for higher wages. At Pittsburg 1,000 painters and peper hangers struck for Increase in pay. A sensational and novel ltold'-up was perpetrated at Butte, Mont., when Charles Payne, an armless man, entered the California Club nnd with n revolver held between the toys of his right foot ctepelled the faro dealer to return to' him #5 which he had lost during the Sight.