Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 November 1903 — NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS.

Houstonville, Ky., was almost destroyed by fire. One block was burned, entailing u loss of 950,000. In a duel between Jack Carlton and Benjamin Hopkins, wealthy rattle men. at Grant, Okla., Carlton was killed. Three anarchists have been arrested at Milan in connection with a plot against the life of M. Deucher, the President of Switzerland. A priest placed the ban on Miss Helen Gould’s sewing school at Tarrytowu, N. Y., because Homan Catholic children ate meat sandwiches at a session on Friday. Mussulmans in the district of KirkKilisch have burned five Bulgarian villages in revenge for an attack made by the Bulgarians on the Mussulman village of Zarasn. While clearing stumps off Dr. J. B. Hartman's stock farm near Columbus, Ohio, Jesse X. Dyer, John Cox, Richard Cox and a man named Sclilitz were blown to pieces by dynamite. Large numbers of Russians are pre-' paring to emigrate to America. The emigration from all parts of Russia has been greatly increased of late by rosy letters received from former emigrants, t The operation for grafting an ear upon the head of a wealthy Western,man was performed in Philadelphia, in'order to avoid interference from the New York authorities, and is expected to prove successful. Arthur Morris Potter, son of T. H. Potter, president of the Rocky Mountain Bank at Central City, Colo., says he lias been disinherited for marrying Miss Clara l>oug, daughter of a Philadelphia banker. Joseph Francis Furlong, of St. Louis, the traveling salesman who shot and killed Irving McDonald, a young St. Joseph millionaire, at the Hotel Metropole, was acquitted by a coroner’s jury and discharged from custody. Edward Dubsky. 24 years old, walked to the rear of his saloon. 4802 I.oomis street, Chicago, and shot himself in the bead, dying instantly. Neither Mrs. Dubsky nor any of her friends could furnish a possible motive for the suicide. Seslne Meyer, the girl who had lain since Dec. 27, 1888, in a trance-like sleep, awoke in the village of Grambke, near Bremen, Germauy, during the clangin* of fire bells. Her case had long interested physicians, and had been the subject of various experiments. Miss Nellie McHenry, leading lady, was serioosly burned during the third act of “M’liss" at Krug's Theater in Omaha. Her turn was to rescue a school- - master from a burning school house. In dropping through the roof her skirts caught firs, and a real rescue by the lead * la* pan followed.