Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1903 — BREVITIES. [ARTICLE]

BREVITIES.

At Sparta. Tonn., four pinions were drowned by the capsizing of :i skiff. The alleged defalcation of a confidential clerk at Buffalo, it is claimed, will reach about $300,000. The Chinese foreign office writes to United States .Minister Conger refusing to often ports in Manchuria. • King Edward and Queen Alexandra were greeted with vociferous cheering whenever they appeared in Dublin. .Congressman Cannon called on President Roosevelt at Oyster Bay the other day to discuss the financial situation. William E. Curtis says the displays to lte. made by foreign governments at .St. Louis will be the greatest ever attempted. Gen. Cassius M. Clay, aged Kentuckian, once well known in public life, died Wednesday at his home in Whitehall, K.v. ; The United States Steel executive committee disapproves suggestion that statement, of the affairs of the company be issued. Burglars blew open the safe of E. T. Hoyt & Co. at Estherwood, La., and secured $30,000 in cash, crop liens and petes. - Nephew and namesake of Senator CulJ.pi wan arrested at Phoenix. Ariz., phnrgod with irregularities while in the ii-itcriiaUrevenue service. Some one scattered poison on the range about twelve miles out of Columbus, Mont., and more than 1,000 bead of sheep are known to have died. The Elks, in national convention at Baltimore, marched in a parade about 7.000 strong. It is estimated that 200,000 people witnessed the purade. Xoreross Brothers Company of Worcester, Mass., largest contracting and building concern in New England, has been placed in the hands of receivers. Charles Hedges, superintendent of .free delivery, Washington, has been dismissed. Statement from the Postotßee Department charges falsification of account s; For an attack uptro a I’l-year-oid white gif!, daughter of a saw mill man named Bjake, Crane (!reel), a negro, was taken from officers at Pine Bluff, Ark., and lynched.

■The first shipment of California fruit for the I,melon market went out from New York. Wednesday. The shipment includes 7.061 boxes of pears, 2.204 boxes of plums, 10 boxes of poaches and 04a boxes of prunes, Fred Collias, alias Fretl Lewis, the Union (Mo.) bank robber, was convicted of murdering Charles J. Schumacher, n Pinkerton detective, near Stanton, Mo., Jan. 24. The verdict is murder in the first degree. The penalty is death. Joint G. Ander on, an immigrant, eii ronte from Sweden to this country, mysteriously disappeared from the train between New York and St. Paul, and no trace of hint ha* been found. Anderson bad S4OO on his person at the time. Scandalized passengers protested to the management of the Hamburg-American •hip Blucher upon its arrival in New York, asserting that its cabin was taken possession of by a crowd of men and women who disregarded the decencies. Unionists in the government printing office at Washington delay action in case of Assistant Foreman Miller pending appeal to the President, and a strike may be averted. The body of Poi»c Leo was borne with pomp to basilica of St. Peter’s, where it lay in state. Church dignitaries had titled Homans took last view of remains at the Vatican. When the remaining United States troops leave Havana they will be escorted by p Cuban detachment and congratulated by President Palma on their exemplary conduct.