Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1903 — NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS.

The safe <if the Merchants' State Rank at Freeman, S. I>.. was raided by robbers, who secured $3,000 anti escaped. The dismissal of two engineers at Swift’s packing house precipitated a gencral sympathetic strike of 300 men in eight plants at the Chicago stock yards. At Kennebutik, Me., the municipal lighting plant, two mills, five blocks, seven wooden buildings and two tenements were burned, causing sioo,ooo loss. Ma yor Fv.mk E. Moores, Republican, was re elected in Omaha after a spirited campaign. Tim remainder of the -ticket is divided between Republicans and Democrats. Dong (Jong, the Chinese .leper who was in (lose confinement at quarantine, about two miles below Jefferson barracks. St. Louis, for the last year.and a half, has escaped. The Opera House block, one of the most pretentious in Kearney. Neb., and constructed thirteen years ago at a cost of SIBO,OOO. has been sold to- John Crocker of Chicago. President l.oubet of France is planning to visit the Pope, and it is understood that the pontiff will not receive the Prench executive, which may cause the breaking of the concordat. To teach the gospel through the eye by means of a theater in New York is the plan of Herbert Booth, son of Gen. Booth, whose sensational resignation from the Salvation Army is still a mystery. Five masked men attempted to loot the Farmers’ Bank at Ohio City, Ohio. The doors .of the safe were blown off. but no money was taken. Night Watchman McConnell was hound and gagged and locked in a box ear. Tbe Montreal City Council has rescinded a resolution adopted in April, 1902, accepting an offer of $150,000 from Andrew Carnegie for a library building. The' 1 Council could not decide upon a satisfactory site, and the dual language question presented a grave difficulty. Charles E. Riliiett of St. Louis has gone to New York to join the Jficgler polar expedition. He is an aeronautic engineer and an accomplished machinist la man/ lines. The balloon to be used by the expedition was manufactured at Qainey, IH., under the direction of Bil■r r-