Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1903 — BREVITIES. [ARTICLE]

BREVITIES.

Trolley cars have killed sixty-eight persons in St. Louis this year. Sir Michael Herbert, the British ambassador to the United States, died at l)nvo* Plata, Switzerland, of quick consumption. A severe electric storm swept over Porto Kico. At Ponce the lighting system was damaged and the city was put in darkness. In well-informed circles at Washington it U considered almost settled that Chicago will secure the Republican national convention next year. For the first time in the history of the United States the production of coal lias reached a total of over 300,000,000 short tons, valued at $373,133,84#. By a collision between a Wisconsin Central passenger train and an electric car near the Hawthorne track, Chicago, five persons were killed and nine injured. Twelve hundred schools in Porto Itico were opened and 60,000 pupils were received. Three times that number of children were enrolled and the struggle for preference was great. The Presbytery of New York ha* launched a novelty in church conslructlon in the house of worship just completed for mission work in the borough of The Bronx. The house is portable. Two miners were killed and two others injured by the accidental explosion of a powder magazine at Mammoth mines, a short distance from the -camp of the Black Bear, near Wallace, Idaho. With a force that demolished houses and uprooted trees, a hurricane swept over the Bermuda islands the other day. Hundreds of houses were damaged. The banana industry was badly injured. A cable from Dr. Otto Klots, the Dominion astronomer, received at Vancouver, B. C\, says he lias succeeded in taking the longitude between Vancouver and Brisbane, thereby girding the globe. Chief Game Warden Fullerton of St. Paul confiscated 2,000 ducks killed hv the southern Minnesota marshes by pot hunters in the employ of Chicago firms. The seizure is the largest the State lias ever made. A family reunion party, composed of about a dozen persons, was run down by a passenger train at Sharon Hill, Pa., on the Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad, and five were killed and tliTee injured. A big white ieghorn rooster, kept in the place of a watchdog by Fritz Riehl, a mill foreman of Portchcster, N. Y„ attacked hi* 4-year-old son. Dm 11, and pecked him almost to death. The boy was rescued by neighbors. Mr. and Mrs. George Bowden and their four children, living on a farm fourteen miles north of O'Neill, Neb., were poisoned by arsenic put in the food they ate at dinner. How the arsenic came to be in the fool is still a mystery. Unable to borrow a cent, even from the New Orleans representative of the millionaire corporation of which he was president, Edward W. Iveegan of Belfast, Ireland, ended his troubles by plunging into the Mississippi river. An attempt was made to burn the agricultural but kirn* at the St. Louis world's fair. One of the guards observed n man acting suspiciously. The man escaped, although several shots were fired at him. Straw and kindling saturated with oil were found. The Packard National Bank at Greenfield, Mass., capital stock SIOO,OOO, and liabilities estimated at $500,000, has closed. The embarrassment is said by the officials to be due to the inability to realize promptly on losns and so satisfy the demands of depositors. They declare that depositors will not lose anything. '