Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 November 1903 — BREVITIES. [ARTICLE]

BREVITIES.

The widow of Recorder Brown of Pittsburg, I*n., will begin an action against the recorder's stenographer to recover property. Clark Yurrick, a prominent railroad man, was electrocuted at San Francisco in a pool of water which had been charged by a live wire. The Bt. 'Louis police department is considering the idea of reviving the ducking stool for beggars who may be attracted to the city during the world's fair. Proceedings in involuntary bankruptcy have been begun at Cleveland against the Owen T. .Teaks Company, lumber dealers. The liabilities are placed at $40,000, ' 15. F. Keith, the vaudeville manager of Yew York, is to enter Cleveland. (J. E. Kohl of Chicago is said to be negotiating for the purchase of the, Star Theater. Fire destroyed the Summit tannery of the. Elk Tanning Company at Curwensville. Fa., entailing a loss of SIOO,OOO. It is said the fire was caused by friction of the pulleys. Beulah Thomas,, a 10-year-old girl of Arborville, Neb., has been kidnaped by two men and no trace of her. can be found. She is the prosecuting witness in an assault case. . Fire at the works of the Delaware Hard Fiber Company. 'Wilmington, Del., destroyed the machine shop and storeroom, with machinery and stock. Loss $50,000, insured. Gustav Marx, slayer of Detective Qtdnn in Chicago, tins confessed that hewas implicated in the City Railway car barns murders as well as three other murders. Three alleged accomplices were named-to the police. Fire has laid waste half a block of the principal business portion of Danville, Ky. The loss will probably reach $30.000. partly insured. The heaviest losers are Rice Benge, livery stable, $10,000; Kentucky Supply Company, SO,OOO. Fnited States Senator Newlamls* resolution inviting Cuba to become a State of the Union upon terms of equality with the other States and providing that Porto Rico shall become a province of Cuba ha's been received with derision by the Porto Rican press aniF public. - The forest fires in the southeastern Texas pine lauds are still burning, with no prospects of stopping or being controlled. It is known that the iianies have crossed the Sabine river at several points and are burning large areas in Vernon and Calcasieu parishes of Louisiana.