Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1903 — NEWS NUGGETS, [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS,

Bishop McCloskcy of the Catholic diocese of Louisville lias placed a bail on dancing and liquor at church picnics. Henry F. Greene of Duluth has been appointed civil service commissioner to succeed Mr. Garfield. Mr. Greene is a lawyer. Open-work shirt waists were dubbed “peekaboo” dresser'liy Father W. G. Miller, a priest at Waukesha, Wis., who condemned the style in scathing terms. Cholera has made its reappearance in the army in the Philippines. The mortality report received from Muj. Gen. Davis in Manila shows that fcix soldiers died of cholera in one week.

Chawneey Dewey, W. J, Mcßride and A 1 Wilson have been committed to jail nt Bt. Francis. Kan., without bail on charges of murder in the first degree for the killing of the Berry family. George Gallagher. 23 years old, died at West New York, X. J.. of meningitis, caused by overstudy and injury received In football game: baseball was played by him with an orange until his death. The postoflice at Rhodes, lowa, was entered by burglars and the safe wrecked with dynamite. The booty secured by the robbers was SBOO in cash and atamps. There is no clew to their identity. Striking hotel and restaurant employes in Chicago have capitulated, joint board through Steam Power Council making overtures in writing to employers for, peace, agreeing to submit all difference* to arbitration. The Missouhi Supreme Court decided against the suit for a decree in ouater against the Continental Tobacco Company, bolding that a corporation had the right to buy all the smaller corporations it had the money to purchaser The Belgian steamship Rubens sank off Christiansand. The captain, mate and six sailor* were drowned. Seven ■urvivor* drifted twenty-three hours in an open boat, and three of them died from exposure. The other four were picked up by a Norwegian steamer. A hailstorm covering a strip of land a mile and a quarter in width parsed the robbers was S3OO in -cash and ©veNjrastern Allen County, Ind., for a distance of three miles and covering New Haven. In places the hail fell to a depth of two iaehes and crop* are ruined. Many cows sere killed.