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

Brief News Items.

Rudolph Tauch, 40, New York, drowned while trying to rescue his dog. Mrs. Thoma* Carent, New York, wa* drowned while boating on North river. The Trend equoit, American, won the Canada cup from the Strathcona in the fifth and last race at Toronto. Charles M. Schwab flatly contradict* the statement that he is engaged in organizing a combination of tailors in the United States. The Comptroller of the Currency has authorized the First National Bank of Cowgill, Mo., to begin burners with a capital of $25,000. A dispatch from Boston says Carrie Nation has gone down on the North Shore for the “rest cure” and to convert the millionaire colony. The King f Roumnnia has joined those who are agitating in favor of an economic coalition of European countries against tire United States. The Secretary of the Interior at Havana ha* ordered 'dealer* in firearms to report to the police the sale of every rifle and to take a receipt therefor. William Higgins. 20 years old, Wa* killed in a baseball game at Fontana, Kan. While running between ba.es he was struck on the temple by a ball. It is reported that the Missouri Pacific has a corps of engineers at work in Jie field locating a line between Joplin and Chetopa, Kan., a distance of fifty miles. More than 200 school house* are being built in Kansa* this year. The country school houses colt from SSOO to SBOO each and the city school buildings from SLOOO to $20,000 each. Isis announced that th* Wabash rood is to secure terminal facilities in Milwaukee at a cost of $5,000,000. It will reach that city by mean* of car ferries from Benton Harbor, Mich.