Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1903 — NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS.

It is reported that the German garrison at Warmbad, in German southwest Africa, has been annihilated by the Hottentots. It is rumored at Colon, Colombia, that startling developments, pointing to the independence of the isthmus, arc near. Everything is quiet. Lieut. Albert M. Beecher, ordnance officer on the battleship Maine, fell from the forward turret, a distance of forty feet, and was killed. Report of Commissioner of Education for the last fiscal year places the total number of pupils enrolled in the public schools at 15,025,557. Railroad men declare the big companies will put the Erie Canal out of business in one year, provided it is rebuilt, which some persons profess to doubt. Blanche D. Chesltrough, formerly Mrs. Roland B. Molinenr, has become the wife of VVullnee D. Scott, who was her attorney in divorce proceedings at Sioux Falls. The main body of the host of John Alexander Dowie has left unregenerate Gotham for Zion City. About 3,000 of them departed. Dowie remained in New York. Six meiCwere killed, one is missing and four were injured by a series of explosions which destroyed two shellhonses at the naval depot at lona Island, N. Y., causing a loss of $500,000. While running forty miles an hour, passenger train No. 0 on the Santa Fe was wrecked on n curve a few miles east of Trinidad, Colo. William Walker, the fireman, was killed and Engineer J. Pose was badly scalded. A dispatch from Posen says that ft bloody conflict between 500 Jews and a force of Russian gendarmerie took place at Warsaw during the enlisting of recruits. The wounded on both sides numbered over forty persons. A dispatch from Simla says terrible earthquakes have destroyed Turshis, neat Turbat-I-Haidari, in Persia, killing 350 persons and injuring many more. One hundred and eighty-four carpet factories were leveled. By advice of the gcand officers of the International Association of Machinists the strike of machinists in the New York shipyards which began last May has been given up. The men return to work under former conditions where positions are vacant. Gold in vast quantities is reported to have been found in the Arbnckle mountains west of Mill Creek, Ok. Mining experts have assayed the ore and pronounced it very rich. The existence of this rein has been known for some time, but not until the land was allotted has the discovery been made public.