Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1903 — BREVITIES, [ARTICLE]

BREVITIES,

Children nre barred from a white school nt Richmond, Va., because their great-grandmother was an Indian. The French bark Savoyard has been wrecked near Brest. Thirty-one of the crew, the captain’s wife and four other women were lost. A ministerial organ in Canada declares for independence from Great Britain, or nt least a mere recognition of King Edward’s sovereignty. Peter Williams’ team of mules was not worth $l5O and when he sold them to William Razee at Beatrice, Neb., he gave Razee his wife to boot. Tod Sloan, the former champion jockey, is reported to be working as a chauffeur nt Paris for a paltry salary and to lack clothes nnd a place to sleep. Police at Allentown, I’n., are mystified by the murder of Miss Mabel Bechtel, whose body was fouud in nil areaway of her home, with the skull crushed. In an explosion in the Greentree tunnel of the Wabash Railroad William See was killed, Harry Gordon fatally hurt and Harry Payne badly cut, but will recover. Renewing an old quarrel, William McAlpin mortally wounded a farmer named Little, in Smith County, Mississippi. McAlpiu was afterward shot to death by a mob. The Girard Avenue Theater, in Philadelphia, was destroyed by fire, entailing a loss of $50,000, of which $25,000 was on the building and the remainder on the contents. While drilling an oil well nt Baldwin, on the Oliib-ludiana line, the gas caught fire from the boiler, and three men were burned, one fatally. All the victims live nt Lima. St. Louis trust companies experienced a run, but by meeting all demands restored confidence. The Chicago Stock Exchange rumors nre blamed for the occurrence. Mrs. Booth Tucker was fatally injured in a Santa Fe wreck at Dean Lake, Mo., and died lialf an hour later. Seven or eight persons are reported to linve been injured. Adolf Friedman, an American, has been arrested at Buda-Pesth at the instance of the United Stntes authorities on the charge of fraudulent bankruptcy in New York. -

Henry Kissinger, of Dayton, ex-State commander of the Grand Army of the Republic of Ohio, was instantly killed during a parade at Dayton by being thrown from hia horse. Ira McGriff, a well-to-do farmer nt New Plains, Ohio, shot his wife through the head and, thinking her dead, sent a bullet into his brain. She is in a critical condition* He will probably die. Elias Toscano, a notorious Mexican criminal, just released from jail for murder, attempted to assasinate President Diaz, firing fire shots nt him in Guanajuato, but failing to hit him. After many mouths of negotiations there has been formed a combine of the anthracite coal mine owners of South Wales. The combiue is capable of an output of 1,000,000 tons of coal a year. Little Catherine O’Day, who was burned to death at her home in St. Louis, was heir to more than SIOO,OOO. She was the daughter of John O’Day, the Springfield millionaire, who at his death two years ago left an estate valued at I more than SBOO,OOO. Keokuk, the oldest Indian iu the Sac. and Pox tribe, died Tuesday at his home at the Sac and Pox agency, twelve miles north of Prague, Ok., aged 85 years. He , was an unusually intelligent ludian and very religioner being a member of the ' Baptist Church. Keokuk, lowa, was \ gunned' for him.