Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1903 — NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS.

For the first time In history the United States post office traueae.'ioiis exceed the billion-dollar mark in a year. Sir Thomas lipton proposes to offer a $2,500 cup to bo competed for in races across the Atlantic by fust yachts of all nations. William Sohroodor of Pnpillon, Neb., fell into a grain separator through losing his footing when pitching sheaves to be thrashed ami was crushed to death. Five Bowduin College students were seriously hurt and sixty, others slightly injured in riot with Mo., town boys over “nightshirt’’ parade. William von Hodge, of Galveston, Texas, is thought to be the long-lost Charlie Boss, of Philadelphia, a friend of the family recognizing marks of identification. An attempt to make Professor I<engley’s flying machine fly ended in failure, the aerodrome landing In the Potomac River a wreck. The operator. Professor Manley, escaped with a ducking. Lightning struck a tent in the Rock Island Railroad camp in Kansas City, Kan., daring a violent stonn, killed two men, injured five others and shocked all the occupants, about fifteen in number. Records of divorces in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, show five applications a day, and the courts are unable to keep up with tho demand. The average for a year Shows two divorces to every five marriages. t Dynamite blew up several feet of the Algoma Central Railroad near the Consolidated Lake Superior Company's brick plant in Sault Ste. Marie. They are sup posed to have been disgruntled employes of the Consolidated Company. “General Marion C. Butler, of South Carolina, formerly United Statea Senator, was rtrnek' on the head by a large •tone thrown into the Pullman car in which he was riding. He received a scalp wound and one of his van was nearly severed. ▲ steer forced it* way into Jeremia's restaurant, in Pittsburg, drove everyone oat of the Christy drug store, chased people off the Federal building steps, cleaned the post office corridors and wa« looking for tho local stock exchange when captured by a squad of peMcemen, who need rdpes foe laeaoos-