Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1903 — BREVITIES. [ARTICLE]

BREVITIES.

Six Morns attacked Oapt. Pershing's rear guard near Lake I.nnau, in Mindanao, slightly wounding Lieut. Haggles. The guard pursued and killed all six-. President Roosevelt lias tendered to Frederick W. Hulls of New York the liositiou of umpire to net in the settlement of the claims of Germany and Italy again.«t Venezuela. The directors of the Chemical National Bank of New York elected W. 11. Porter, formerly vice president of the bank, president to fill the place caused bjr the death of President G. G. Williams. Money is being collected in Georgia to lie aeut to Miss Louise Hadley, the Indianapolis chambermaid who lost her position at the Hotel English beeau c she refused to make the bed occupied by Booker T. Washington. The President has appointed M. H. Backett. an editor of Gouvenenr. N. Y., to be United States consul at Prescott, Oat. He takes the place of Consul G. V. Anderson, wjio is transferred to the consulate at Durango. Mexico. Peter Stanrley died at Upper Sandusky, Ohio, at the age of 110 years, afte» an illness of seven weeks. He is survived by a widow 100 years old, tq whom he had been married eighty-five years. He was the oldest man in Ohio. W. T. Keith, an attorney of Dalhart. Texas, was shot and killed by George F. Kornegay, editor of the Bnu. ns a res’ suit of a quarrel over an article concenir _ lug Keith printed in the Sun. In the ~ fight Keith fired at Kornegay without effect. Kornegay fled after the shooting. Judges Dickinson and Day of the District Court in Omaha, signed a restraining order against the Waiters’, Cooks’ gad Bartenders' Uaioh, npou application of the Restaurant. Men’s Association. The order restrains the men from posting pickets, threatening or intimidating, ««.