Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1903 — NEWS NUGGETS, [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS,

At Duncan, I. T„ fire caused a severe loss to several mercantile buildings and stocks. Frank Robertson, _n negro in jail at Bradley, Ark., charged with arson, was lynched. Roy S. Seimabaugh, aged 22 years, of St. Louis, won a prize of $ 1,000 in a piny writing contest. Fire destroyed the main plant of the Irontnn, Ohio, Lumber Company. Loss 920,000, insurance 911,000. A violent storm which prevailed •at Newport News, Va., for twenty-four hours did much damage ashore and nlloat. Ebenezer ltutliriok, the originator of the tissue paper dress pattern, died at liis home in Brooklyn, lie was 70 years of age. The regency of Crown I’rince Gustaf ended Tuesday, and King Oscar resumed the active direction of the Swedish gov eminent. John Wanamnker has sold Every body’s Magazine to the Ridgwny-Thayr Company, composed of firman J. Ridgtvay, John Adams Thayer and G. \V. Wilder. Junius It, Clay, soil <>f Cassius M. Clay, and one of the largest land owners near Paris, Ky., was accidentally shot and killed by* his wife while they were ut target practice. By a vote of 103 to -IS the Dominion House declared its opinion that to save the youth of the country the manufacture, snle and importation of cigaretteshould be prohibited. Lieut. W. 11. Henderson, F. S. N., who lias been in charge of dredging work in the harbor at Full River, Mass., for the last three months, eommitted suicide by inhaling illuminating gas. Luke James, aged 50, a hotelkeeper at Bonilla, S. D.. threw himself under a Chicago and Northwestern train at Huron and wns instantly killed. It is believed he was temporarily insane. Dr. Richard C. Flower pleaded not guilty at New York to five indictments charging him with grand larceny, but reserved the privilege of withdrawing that pleu and making any motion he saw fit. The Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company has given notices of a cut of 50 cents a ton in the price of domestic anthracite. There will be no change in the prices of furnace and steam coal. By a vote of 102 to 41 the Dominion Houne of Commons has adopted Mr. Coatigan’s resolution declaring in favor “of home rule for Ireland. Twelve con •ervatlvea voted for the resolution, while two liberals voted against it., Benjamin Gates, alias “Diamond Bonny, ’’ accused of Minneapolis diamond robbery, was arrested aboard a North »rn Pacific train near Helena, Mont. lie bad the index finger of a woman, which he said lie carried for good luck. The Atlantic City life-saving station reports the Norwegian steamship Brighton, Captain KrottUg, from Port Antonio for New Y’ork, stranded off station. The four passengers and twenty two crew were rescued by the life-savers. Court restraint, which since March .'l has prevented a strike on the Wabash Railroad, was removed the other day, when Judge Adams of St. Lmis dissolved the temporary injunction he himself had granted preventing the brotherhoods of locomotive firemen and railroad trainmen from ordering n walkout. The Pennsylvania chapters of the Daughters of the American Revolution will build a SIO,OOO clubhouse in Manila for the use of the private soldiers in the United States army. The women will bear the entire coat of the building and the government will maintain it.