Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 July 1903 — NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS.

Dan Godfrey, the famous bandmaster of the Grenadier Guards, died in London, of paralysis. Tlie French Chamber of Deputies passed 51. Debussy’s bill increasing the duties on cattle and fresh meat. Richard Tcbbetts, a newsboy, 7 years old, was murdered at Rockford. 111-, and his body was hidden on the outskirts of the town. Because tlie old wage scale agreement had expired and a new one was not arranged 13.000 miners in Alabama suspended Work. Newton Van Horn, ages] 17. has been instantly killed by being bit by a “foul tip” baseball at Coshocton, Ohio. Ills skull was fractured. Mrs. Susan Knapp testified for the defense in tlie trial of her son, Alfred Knapp, accused of murder at Hamilton, Ohio, and said he was insane. John Barrett, commissioner general of the St. Louis exposition to Asia and Australasia, has been appointed T'nited States minister to Argentina, vice W. I*. Lord. , True bills have liocn voted against Alderman John J. Brennan of Chicago and eleven others because of the part they are alleged to have taken in election frauds. The new Department of Commerce, of which George B. Cortelyou is head, was opened with address and scripture reading. It includes corporations and manufactures bureaus. William Price, a prominent member of the Woodlawn Rifles, was shot and fatally wounded while engaged in peeping at two young ladies preparing for retirement at their home in Avondale, Ala. At Minturn, Colo.. Ed Murphy, a I>enver and Rio Grande fireman, was shot and killed by Miss Grace Nottingham, said to have been his fiancee. There were no witnesses, but she admits the killing. The lowa Republican convention adopted the Allison tariff plank, a declaration more conservative than the original ’’lowa idea.” Gov. Cummins and other State officers, with one exception, were renominated. ; The vail*' containing about $72,000 worth of securities recently stolen from R. L. Harrington of Omaha, in the Union station. whs found by two boys under a pile of lumber in Pueblo, Colo. The valuables were all there. A plague of lice has visited the apple orchards in Orleans County. X. Y. The growers have sprayed the trees with whale oil, but thus far with" it effect. If the lice are not checked the apple crop of the county, valued at SI,OOO, will be mined. A report is current in papermaking circles to the effect that the hook paper mills of Wisconsin and Michigan will sell their output through the General Paper Company of Chicago, a combination or selling agency formed a few years ago by the news print mills of Wisconsin and Minnesota and a few in Michigan.