Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 September 1903 — BREVITIES. [ARTICLE]

BREVITIES.

A severe storm visited n section north of Mankato, Minn., and for miles con; was cut down by hail. The State Bank of Silver Lake, Minn.. w»» robbed of $2,500 in carb and al) notes and securities. The safe was completely destroyed. The shortage |n the sniraOn product on the Pacific coast is now said to amount to 2,000,000 cases and prices have considerably advanced. The Pennsylvania Democratic convention nominated a State ticket by acclamation and adopted a strong plank pledg Ing the repeal of the Grady-Sahis libel law. Mayor Charles S. Bosch of Hamilton. Ohio, caused the arrest of his own brother, Fred Bosch, on the charge of permitting gambling at his house, the Hotel Atlas. Mrs. Ogden Goelet at New;>ort announce* the engagement of her daughter, Miss May Goelet, to the Duke of Boxburgtie, member of a distinguished family of Britain. After h fortnight’s work, President Riescb of Chili has formed a new ministry, bended by Ricardo Matteperex. It is of the same political compcsition a* the late ministry. Four collieries of the Union Coal Company at Shamokin. Pa., employing 5,000 men and boys, were closed down for an indefinite period oh account of the overstocked coal market. The United States gunboat Scorpion had a big hole stove in her side and was barely raved from sinking following a collision with the steamer H. M. Whitney in the East River. New York. The jury in the case of Charles Jackson, the negro accused of the murder of Charles W. Roxbury in River avenue. New York, in July, returned a verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree. The schooner Minnie M. Cook reached Sidney, Nova Scotia, with Captain Maskell and five of the crew of the schooner Queen of the Fleet, who were taken off their sinking ship thirty miles west of Cajie North in a gale. Deputy Sheriff Louis J. Cook, nt Baldwin, L. 1., shot, and killed one burglar, fatally wounded a second and captured two others. He discovered them trying to break into a house and a desperate fight followed, but Cook escaped injury. Fearing a collision, the passengers on a crowded cable car in Kansas City became panic-stricken on the Twelfth street viaduct that spans the railway yarda and several jumped from the swiftly moving train. Three were seri- . ous'y hurt. At Hamilton, Ohio, Judge Belden retimed a new trial for Alfred A. Knapp, I the self-confessed murderer of two of his wives and three other victim*. The court fixed Dec. 12 for the execution. Knapp took the decision with indifference and made Be statement. He will be taken to Colombo* fer electrocution. •