Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 March 1903 — NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS.

Six deaths from disease resembling cholera on board the steamer Karamania, which arrived at New York front Naples. Metal workers employed in twenty-four of the largest shops in Chicago have gone on strike on account of an internal struggle between two unions. Ezra Kendall, the aetor, bought 000 acres of farm land near Washington, D. C, He intends to give each of his six sons a hundred-acre farm. Henry Thomas, a negro, who attacked the 10-year-old daughter of l’orter Keene, was lynched near Parish, Fla., after having admitted his guilt. Plans are being mapped out by trolley promoters for a road to connect New York with Montreal, the line to run via Vermont and by Lake Champlain. An unidentified man, about 25 years of age, committed suicide in San .lose, Cal., by shooting. On a loaf in a pocketbook was written, “Oliver Lisvvell, Chicago.” The reciprocity treaty with the United States was approved by the Senate at llnvnnn by sixteen votes against five. The vote for the convention is exactly two-thirds of the Senate, The “Overland Limited,” east bound, and a freight train on the Union Pacific came into collision at Oilman station. Neb. Six trainmen are reported to have been killed. A number of the passengers ore injured. A blow received in a friendly boxing bout is said to have put Arthur L. <sriffiths of Malden, Mass., a medical student at Yale, into a stupor that lasted three days, and lias since kept him in hospital for seven weeks. Mrs. Arthur J. Pennell, wife of the Buffalo (N. Y.j suspect, died of injuries received In the automobile accident which killed her husband. The police declare wife murder and suicide were not planned by Pennell, Prince Albert Kakailimoku Kumiiaklea is dead of consumption at Honolulu. The prince was the last descendant of Kamehamehn the Great, and would some day have )>ecn king of Hawaii had the Kamehameha dynasty lived. In Portland, Ore., fire damaged the stock of Canning, Wallace & Co., wholesale druggists, to the extent of $20,000 and partially destroyed the building occupied by the firm. The total loss is $40,000, fully covered by insurance. Townsville, North Queensland, Australia, has been visited by a cyclone, In which many persons were killed or injured; A part of the hospital building collapsed during the storm, killing six persons. Schools, churches and residences were destroyed and many of the inhabitants have been rendered homeless. James Wilbert of Chicngo fatally iplured his wife by striking her over'the bead with a sledge hammer at Kirkwood, Mo. He then attempted to kill hia mother-in-law, kicked his child in the face, and fired at hla father-in-law, afterwards escaping.