Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1903 — BREVITIES. [ARTICLE]

BREVITIES.

The Northern Railway shops in Quebec were completely destroyed by tire. Loss $75,000, covered by insurance. Herbert Moon, a Utica, N. Y., boy, 13 years old, shot and killed Lucien Drew, aged 20, of Ithaca, Mich., after a quarrel. A terrific gas explosion occurred at Bens Uun, W. Vu., u small oil town, along the Ohio river, and two persons were injured' fatally. Mrs. Carrie Nation was fined $lO in Bayonne, N. J., for attempting to use her hatchet in a saloon. She paid , the fine in 10-cent pieces. The Mason & Hamlin Company of Boston, one of the oldest piano and organ houses in the country, assigned, with liabilities estimated at $1,000,000. The blowing out of the controller on a crowded ear in Buffalo and a fire which followed caused a panic among the passengers. Ten of them were injured, four seriously. Two men were fatally injured and fully a score badly hurt by the explosion of a dynamite cartridge in the subway at One Hundred and Third street and Broadway, New York. - A head-end collision took place on the Carthage-Joplin Electric railway three mile* front Carthage, Mo. Motorman .tame* Baker wns killed, Motormai) E. Hedge fatally hurt and twenty-five other persous seriously injured. A cure for lockjaw has been discovered by Dr. S. A. Mathews of University of Chicago and used successfully on the son of J. M. Newman, of South Chicago. Calciam and potassium Salts solution were given as an injection. ~T' A special dispatch from Dawson City says that H. Bratnober. an American miner, arrived there with news that 400 miners in the Tanana country are in terrible straits. He says five men have already died of starvation, and there are scores living on nothing but berries. James Willis Sayre, the Seattle Times globe trotter, reached Seattle over the Northern Pacific. Mr. Sayre had been gone from Seattle exactly 54 days 8 hours and 55 minutes. The best previous record, made by Charles Cecil Fitamorris, was 60 days 13 hours and 29