Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 April 1903 — BREVITIES, [ARTICLE]

BREVITIES,

Fire in the engineers’ barracks at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., threatened its destruction and caused damage amounting to $5,000. » About a dozen strikers were shot down by the troops in Home during a riot which the men had started in the center of the city. The Hamden (Ohio) bank, owned by Thomas Edwards, has closed its doors. Mr. Edwards came from Chicago last September. Rosie Bell Cowart, supposed to have been insane, shot and killed her mother near Aberdeen, Miss., and blew out her own brains. A dispatch from St. Petersburg says thiryt persons were killed and 100 injured during labor disturbances near Nishni-Novgorod. p* — Stale Department oflleinls believe the United States will be granted naval stations at Bahia Honda and Guantanamo in return for recognition of Cuban title to the Isle of Pines. t At the annual conference of the reorganized Church of the Latter Day Saints, in session at Independence. Mb., it was decided to hold the next annual conference at Kirtlaud, Ohio. Despondent from ill health, Professor Ernest A. Eggers, of Columbus, bend of the department 'of German in the Ohio State University, killed himself by shooting. He was a noted educator. ■ At Sherman. Tex., Ben L. Thompson, cashier of the Bank of Commerce, was shot aud killed on a street by \V. E. Stone, of Texarkana, who says the shooting was the result of n family difficult. s> A dispatch lias been received at the Navy Department in Washingtpn from " Key West announcing the death of Hear Admiral George E. Belknap, U. S. N„ retired. Death resulted from apoplexy. Returns from all the towns in Kansas which held elections Tuesday disclose the fact that the vote in fayor -of enforcing the prohibition law is th£ most overwhelming in the history of the State. The diphtheria epidemic in the navy has been followed by an outbreak of j mumps among recruits from the West. The torpedo-boat destroyer Whipple has been put in quarantine for this reason. The bodies of Captain Henry Hartwell and bis son, Alva Harrtwell, of Bois Blanc Island, were found on the beach of Round Island, near Mackinac Island. It is thought their sailboat was wrecked hy the recent fierce gale.

The will of Gustavus 11. Swift, of ■ Chicago, filed fpr probate, disposes of $12,000,000 estate; $250,000 is to be distributed by the widow to charities; the balance is left to her and the e!#ldren after special bequests are paid. John It. Wilson, for more than twenty years identified with the public affairs of Chicago as publisher of the Journal, died at his l*ke Geneva home. Mr. Wilson was taken sick with typhoid fever during the holidays, effusion of the lungs developing shortly afterwards. The regular session of the Fourteenth Colorado General Assembly came to a close by constitutional limitation. The general appropriation bill was passed by ths Senate after the adjournment of the House. Some members claim that for this reason it is illegal and an extra reaSion will he necessary.