Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1903 — EVENTS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

EVENTS OF THE WEEK

,Bill proposing government loans Irish tenants to enable them to purehaso holdings has been introduced in the British House of Commons by Mr. Wyndiiatn. Introduction of this bill Is said to be an event of world-wide Importance end a forerunner for home rule in Ireland. Firemen called to extinguish flames in a dwelling in North Twelfth street, St. Louis, found the body of Mrs. Charles Adams lying on the floor. Apparently She had suffocated. Her husband could Cot give a satisfactory account as to to how the lire started and was taken Into custody pending an investigation. A sensation was caused near Grand Forks, N. D., when n bouse, the ownership of which was claimed by both Mrs. John Jacobson and Phil Mett, was moved into Minnesota despite the vigorous protests of Mett. Judge Fisk and several attorneys were routed out, hut before injunction papers could he secured the house was in Minnesota. Gilbert Warfield, a member of the fiylvn Opera Company, was arrested at Tagle, Wls., charged with robbing. Treasurer Nirdlingcr ut a hotel in Milwaukee,' of $2,700. Wapfield confessed to the theft. Warfield Is the man who slept with Nirdlingcr. He had nearly the full amount of stolen property in his jiossei*i<m when taken in custody. The Kev. l)r. D. W. Clark, presiding elder, before the Methodist Preachers’ Association in Cincinnati declared that the Sunday school us managed at present "is pretty much of a failure,” and advocated the graded system. He said that the laws <>f psychology > and pedagogy were as necessary in Sunday school teaching as in the public schools. The whipping post was resorted to at the smallpox hospital in Columbus, Ohio, to maintain discipline. Hugh Murphy, a negro suffering with a mild case of small pox, attacked and badly wounded T. V. Flowers, another patient, with a fork. l>r. Heiliel, superintendent of the lios pital, dierecil that Murphy should necive twenty-live lashes on his bare 100 k. Miss Jessie Wnggy, daughter of n prosperous farmer near Weston, W. Vn„ thot Ralph McDatiuiild, a medical slu dent. About two years ago Miss Waggy sued MeDamiald in the Circuit Court for $5,000 damages. The jury gave her a verdict of $2,000, and it was thought that this had ended the matter, but she says she bad been awaiting her lay of revenge. Emulating the example of the Armours and Swifts, Nelson Morris A- Co. have gone into the poultry and egg business on an extensive scale. The firm has purchased outright more than sixty branch packing houses of the Arthur Jordan Company of Indianapolis, located In Indiana, Illinois and New Jersey, and all the eastern branch markets, including those in New York, Boston and Brookl\ n. The habit of chewing toothpicks has caused H. E. O'Donnell, student, of St. Paul, Minn., to undergo an operation. O'Donnell lias been in the habit of chew ing toothpicks and swallowing small pieces of the wood. A few weeks ago ids throat began to trouble him. A specialist found several splinters embedded In the flesh below the palate, where u growth had formed. O'Donnell then submitted to an operation to have the growth removed. Judge Ilahey in the Circuit Court at Milwaukee rendered an important opinion to the effect that so-called blacklists are privileged communications. The libel suit of Valentine Gerhardt against Armour A- Co. and William G. Lloyd, the Milwaukee representatives of the combination of packers, for SIO,OOO damages was nonsuited. It will bo appealed to the Supreme Court. Gerhardt brought suit for damages after lie had been refused a supply of meat because a previous bill bad not been paid.