Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 September 1903 — NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS.

A man, supposed to be C. T. Barden, a traveling salesman of Boston, jumped into Lake Erie a few miles eapt of Cleveland and was drowned. Two additional victims of the trolley car collision at Pelham, N. 11.. died. The list of dead numbers six, with the possibility of two being added to it. Two persons were killed and a number injured as a result of automobile accidents at Detroit and Zanesville. Barney Oldfield had a narrow escape from death. A bold attempt to hold up the Bitter Root express just east of Stevensville, Mont., was frustrated by the vigilance of the crew. A pile of ties had been placed on the tracks. “Keeping company,” or strolling in pairs, has been utrictly forbidden among the 500 young people in the Catholic school in the parish of Our Lady of Lourdes at Marinette, Wis. Saloonkeepers will be forbidden to grant credit to anyone, and will be forced to sell milk, cotfee, tea and cold food if a bill to promote temperance is passed by the German lawmakers. Officers raided an illicit still at 75 Evergreen avenue, Chicago, seized 800 gallons of whisky and captured two men and a woman who were in charge of the factory, which was admirably equipped. Specials from northwest of Denver tell of earthquake shocks felt in Boulder, Loveland, Longmont and Fort Collins, Cob* The shocks caused doors and windows to rattle and at Boulder the house's shook quite perceptibly. After a separation of a quarter of a century, John Kingston, a railroad employe at Ithaca, N. Y., has just found his son, John Kingston, Jr.. a prorperous engineer of Chicago. The younger Kingston went to Ithaca from Chicago and proved his identity to his father. The Santa Fe Railroad Company announces a wage increase of 2 cents per hour for boilermakers, machinist* and blacksmiths at all the shops on the system proper between Chicago and Albuquerque. This meins an increased expenditure by the company of SIOO,OOO yeariv.