Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1903 — NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS.

About one-half of the business portion of Biggs, Colo,, lias I iron destroyed, causing a loss of over $40,000. At the O’Neill coal mines at Wilsonburg, W. Va., Italian miners attacked American mine employes and one Italian wan killed. Pistols, shotguns and bowic knives were use|l. Turkish troops are destroying villages and robbing and killing indiscriminately in Macedonia, under the guise of .combating insurgents. General massacres of Christians are feared. Fire destroyed Radcliffe & Co.’s fourstory warehouse at Grand Uapids, Mich., causing a loss of more than SIOO,OOO. The building. was tilled with furniture owned by local dealers. At Candor villuge, N. Y., Sadie, the 10-year-old (laughter of Peter Van Denmark, committed suicide by drinking carbolic acid. Disagreement with her mother is thought to have caused the act. The American fishing tug Silver Spray, of Krie, was tired on and damaged in hate Erie by the Canadian revenue cutter Petrel while in debatable water near the boundary Hue. Complications may ensue. Bert Dixon, who shot and killed bis father, ex-County Coroner Dr. James Dixon, on July 2, was adjudged insane by Probate Judge Beam at Canal Dover, Ohio, and was taken to the Massillon asylum. Three slight earthquake shocks were felt at Athens, Greece. Three villages on the isle of Cythera were almost entirely destroyed. The earthquake was general throughout Greece. Two fatalities have been reported. Through an organized movement by Rev. J. H. Henry Duckery of Cambridge, Mass., 500,000 negroes ere to emigrate from the South to points between Troy, N. Y„ Boston and Providence within three years. According to the Paris Gaulois Jules Verne U almost blind. An operation for the removal of a cataract is necessary, but the author declines to undergo this, on the ground that it would be too dangerous at his age, 75 years. Four Philadelphia merchants have been arrested, charged with violating the law regarding the sale' of firearms to minors. The arrests are the outcome of an investigation into the cause of the death of four children from lockjaw resulting from pistol wounds. Joseph Hallicr, organizer of the United Mine Workers, was shot and seriously wounded, ami B. L. Greer, vice-president of the Alabama United Mine Workers, was severely besten 1# a crowd of angry citizens at Horse Creek, Ala., who objected to the organisation of a union at that place.