Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 May 1903 — BREVITIES. [ARTICLE]

BREVITIES.

Mr/’. Lulu T. Hadley, who refused to make Booker T, Washington's bed, has lift liidiiuiupoHs on account of threats by negroes. Ten large buildings at the market wharf in Panama. Colombia, the most important part of tlie city .commercially, were destroyed by fire. • John D. Rockefeller has ngreisl to give $50,000 to the Y. M. <’. A. at Washington on condition that $300,000 additional is raised before Jail. 1. A most dwt motive and fatal tornado struek the town of Elmo. Mo. Niue persons were killed outright and five were injured, some of whom may die. Dr. Len Rroughton, a Baptist preacher at Atlanta, Ga., declared in a sermon that the woman who plays bridge whist is no .better than the negro crap shooter. Anton Cnlcagno, a San Francisco shoemaker, shot and killed his former paramour, Madeline Picconi, and committed suicide, because the woman had left him. German Naval Ensign Hussner has been given four years’ prison sentence and degraded front rank for killing It is boyhood friend. Artilleryman Hartmann, Who had failed to salute him. “Mammy Bates.” once a servant in the families of Presidents John Adams and James Monroe, was buried from Lincoln hospital. New York. She died in her one hundred and fourth year. While miming past May's siding on a hill about seven miles west of Kane, l’a., the boiler of one of tlie locomotives pushing a Philadelphia and Erie freight train exploded, killing one man anil injuring four others. Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Warren of Lowville. N. Y., have started out for a drive of 3.000 miles. Their destination is Los Angeles, and their outfit consists of a team of horses, a buggy and a light stock of clothing. Viscountess Glentworth of Downham, Norfolk, who celebrated the one hundredth anniversary of her birth the other day, is the oldest member of the British peerage and is still in possession of all her faculties. A campaign against divorce was planned by Methodist, Presbyterian and Protestant Episcopal church representatives at New York conference; Archbishop Farley of Roman Catholic Church asked to co-operate. The Peruvian gunboat Loreto sprung a leak forty miles northeast of Scilly Islands and sank iu an hour. Tlie crew was picked up by a French vessel and lauded at Plymouth, England. The Loreto is a new vessel. Four United States watch companies have purchased tlie American Watch Company factory at Toronto, the object being to avoid the payment of large duties on cases and to afford a means of selling American movements. Four men were killed and two badly burned by an explosion of gas iu the mines of the ('harriers Coal and Coke Company at Federal. Pa.. The mine is but slightly damaged. Sixty men were at work ut the time of the explosion. The steamship Coban of the Diamond line, from Sydney, C. 8.. for Montreal, signaled that an explosion of . gas had occurred on board which completely destroyed the saloon and blew up , the poop deck. A waiter was killed and two steerage passengers are missing. An unknown man sitting in an open car crowing Brooklyn bridge suddenly' alighted when the car was in the middle of the center rpan and, running to th> aide of the bridge, jumped into the river. • His body rose to the surface immediately after the plnnge and was carried away by the current.