Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1903 — NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS.

Tlie cnnnl treaty lias been signed at Panama. Dr. Cyrus Edson, tlie famous germ specialist, died in New York after a brief illness. C. P. Butler, n prominent member of the Columbus, Ohio, bar, shot and killed himself in his room. Fire has destroyed the coal pocket at the big freight terminal in South Boston, entailing a loss of übout $325,0U0. Fifteen persons were injured, two fa tally, in it renr end collision between Whittier electric cars near Los Angeles in a dense fog. The defaulting and fugitive president of the failed Bnnk of the Chickasaw Nation has been indicted by n grand jury at Ardmore, I. T. Jacob Hinds shot and fatally wounded Jerry Arnold at Cadiz Junction, Ohio, because the latter defeated him in a sparring exhibition. The town of Greenwood, Del., was nearly wrecked by an explosion of dynamite. Two were killed and 100 injured. Many houses were burned. Forty-four killed and 185 injured is the record of the street cars, elevated roads and railroad trains within the city of Chicago for the month of November. Attorney James A. Fullenweider was shot and probably mortally wounded by three highwnymen, who nttncked him at 4‘2d street and Wabash avenue, Chicago, while on his way home. Fred Strube gave himself up at Macon. Mo., after evading arrest for two weeks and confessed thnt he murdered Alice Ilenninger at Topeka, 111., because she refused to marry him. T. B. Southgate, late of Croydon, Surrey, England, and now residing at Rosser, near Winnipeg, has just come by $250,000 by the death of A. L. Webbe, whose life he saved in 1805. Ruth Bryan Leavitt writes to n friend that her artist husband has decided to remain at Humunsville, Mo., where they have been spending their honeymoon, and run for Congress on the Republican ticket next year. The will of William Wyman of Baltimore devises the bulk of his $500,000 estate to trustees to pay Ids daughter SO,000 a year. After her death, without Issue, the property goes to the Johns Hopkins University. The battleship Libertad, now undergoing speed trials on tlie Clyde, and the battleship Constitution, now in course of construction in England, have been sold by the Chilian government to the British government for $9,000,000. Three negroes were lynched for the murder of a white man at Belcher, La., by a crowd of 1,200 persons, containing a number of their own race. Many of the blacks In the crowd had aided in hunting down the assassins. Three members of a crew of eleven men on the tug Idlewild were drowned, the remainder of the crew narrowly escaped death, and the tug was sunk one minute after a collision with the tug Hercules in New York harbor. Refusing to aid his wife out of tier financial difficulties, James B. Miller, a brother-in-law of Jay Gould, helped the receiver to post notices sdvertising the forced sale of Mrs. Isabel E. Miller’s Rye farm on the old Joseph Jefferson homestead in Hohokus, N. J. In Asheville, N. C., Dr. J. Y. Jay was found guilty of murder in the second degree and sentenced to thirty years at hard labor. ▲ few weeks ago Dr. Jay, who is one of the beet-known physicians In the Asheville country, murdered his three children. His mind was thought to ho affected.