Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1903 — BREVITIES. [ARTICLE]

BREVITIES.

At Atlantic City the International League. of Press Clubs re-elected M. I’. Curran, of Host on, president. Labor unions plan 11 strike an nil building operations in (ireater New York as retaliation against the' employers. Widows and widowers of Hudson County, New Jersey, have fornfed a club, the prime object being the amelioration of the lot of its member.-. The death rate at Manila has decreased from -KI.NO per 1,000 population for the first quarter of 1000 to 22.17 for the first quarter of 1903. Negotiations for a trade with China opening Manchuria ports are dead-lock-ed, because the Chinese commissioners propose to omit Moukdeu. Taku Shan and llnrhin. Joint W. Pace, nu Alabama planter, pleaded guilty to eleven indictments on charge of peonage and was sentenced to live years’ imprisonment in each case, to be served concurrently. At Canton, Ohio. Miss Ida Barber, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. C. llarlter, hnd niece of Mrs. McKinley, became the of Luther, second son l>f Supreme Court Justice William K. Dgy. The special session of the Legislature called by Gov. Bailey to enact a Hood relief measure lias begun in Topeka, Ivan., enough members having arrived to assure a quorum in both houses. Has escaping from a range in the kitchen at Hu* home of John Davidson in Chicago earned the death of one tnau, while the householder, his wife and 0-year-old son had a narrow escape. Edwin • Howell, former teller of the Fjrst National Bank of Cripple Creek, Colo., was sentenced to serve live years in the Fort Leavenworth penitentiary. Howell had pleaded guilty to the charge of embezzlement of SI,OOO front the bank. The Mississippi board of election commissioner.; ordered a State primary election to be held Aug. 0. This action means that the next United States Senator from Mississippi will be chosen by popular ballot. Senator Money and (Joy. Longiuo are candidate*. While the tug l’riciiln, with a number Of excursfqniiits on board 1 , wjjt catering her wharf at San Francisco J. I>. Paulson, a bookkeeper, aged .'Pi years, and Edward Bellinger, a bartender, aged 24 year;, began a scuffle in a friendly way and both fell in the bay aud were drowned. < -