Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1903 — NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS.

The boy recently born to Mr. and Mrs. Grover Cleveland has been christened Francis Grover Cleveland. Fire'destroyed the Auburn Hotel at Auburn, Cat, and Daniel Christy and W. Bert Maither wen) burned to death. Mrs. Nina Thompson was arrested at Walla Walla, Wash., on the charge of arson committed in Kentucky three years ago. Bight Rev. C. J. h’Relly, bishop of Baker City, Ore., was consecrated at the cathedral in Portland, Ore., Archbishop Ohrhtie officiating. The plant and machinery at the asphalt mines, four miles south of Loco, I. T., were destroyed by fire. Loss $40,000, with no insurance. A man registering as 11. L, Robinson of Georgetown, Ky„ was found dead in the Iceland Hotel at Lexington, Ivy. He had taken carbolic acid. Miss lvuehne Beveridge, the nculptrcaa, was married to William B. Branson of Johannesburg, South Africa, at St. George’s Church, London. The crew of the schooner G. E. Bentley of Mobile is supposed to have been lost with the vessel in the recent hurricane which passed over the West Indies. A north-bound pasrenger traiu on the Cleveland, Lorain and Wheeling road collided with a freight near the station in New Philadelphia, "Ohio, and five were seriously hurt. The wife of Dr. Robert McLean, pro fessor of surgery at the I'niversity oi California, has sued for divorce. She Claims her husband denies her the right to any opinions differing from lira. The new cruiser Cleveland, built by the Bath Iron Works Company, was given a spin off Booth Bay. Me., to test its machinery before the final official trial on the Cape Ann course. The trial was satisfactory.

A stir has been created in the government printing oftlee in Washington by an order to ail heads of departments, which will be extended to all employes, that the oath of allegiance to the United States must be taken. Five prisoners, including Carlos McCormick. a boy murderer, escaped from the county jail at Tucson, Ariz., by digging a hole in the wall and dropping from the second story by means of a rope made from their blankets. Orrin J. Tovvne, Jr., a former deputy collector of internal revenue for the east■em district tvf Massachusetts, was arrested in Philadelphia by government officers charged with the defalcation of several thousand dollars. The big consolidated cigarette factory in Havana, belonging to the American Tobacco Company and the Ktiglish combine, was totally destroyed by tire with its valuable contents. The loss is estimated at upward of $250,000. According to a Sofia telegram the Turkish repressive measures in Macedonia hare reached tiie utmost limits of barbarism and it is evident that it is the intention to accomplish by degrees the —total sxtlrpation ot the Bulgarian popa 1 at ion. Claus Christenson of Callaway, Neb., aged 12 years, was killed by being buried alive. The boy was hunting for gophers, accompanied by his dog. Searching parties discovered his dog sitting near the dirt walla of a canyon. An investigation diacloaed the boy'a feet protruding from a mate of earth which had fallen on him.