Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 December 1903 — ABOUND THE WORLD [ARTICLE]

ABOUND THE WORLD

Russia has sent eight war ships to Korea to back up her demand thnt Yongampho be maintained as a dosed port and threatens to march on Seoul. Tha United States and Japan are said to bare Just concluded negotiations tor joint action. t An unknown man hurled a stone through the window of the E. 11. Kestkamp Jewelry Company in St. Louis, seized a tray of diamond rings valued at |6,000 and escaped. Two clerks gave chase and fired two shots, but the man eluded them. Stricken with smallpox just one week after his marriage, Frank Thistle of Orange, N. J., is dead at the municipal hospital in Philadelphia. The wedding took place in New York, and when the couple arrived in Philadelphia on their tour the groom wiu^tricken. Georgians Andros, 7 years old, was seized by her father, while she was standing in front of the Goethe school, In Chicago, and hurried away in a closed carriage. The mother and stepfather made a futile chase. The police for some reason suddenly became inactive. Nearly a whole family perished in the flames that destroyed a dwelling at Clarksburg, N. J. Clayftn Fowler, 42 years old; his wife, 36 years, and three of their children were burned to death. The oldest child, a boy, Jumped from the second-story window and escaped with slight bruises. The trustees of the Carnegie institution in Washington have authorized an aggregate expenditure of $373,000 in grants for scientific research and $40,000 for publications during the coming year. Action on requests for 1,022 grants, involving an allowance of $3,000,000 a year, was indefinitely postponed. The two-story block on Jefferson avenue, Washington, Pa., owned by J. C. Knox and occupied by G. D. Carpenter, plumber; Curran & Alder, confectionery, and G. Whiting, cigar dealer, was destroyed by fire, entailing a loss of about $15,000. During the fire Benjamin Miller, a fireman, came in contact with the electric arc wires and was electrocuted. James M. Edge was arrested in Memphis, Tenn., charged with embezzling SIOO,OOO from the First National Bank of Paterson, N. J. Edge lias been in Memphis several months. The detectives state that Edge admits his identity and confessed thnt his peculations amounted to SIOO,OOO. Edge, it is said, claims to have lost the money in turf speculations. Diggers sinking an artesian well on a ranch six miles west of Cheyenne, Wyo., at a depth of 265 feet penetrated n lake or stream and n column of water six inches in diameter spouted to a height of forty feet. Soundings failed to find bottom. It is estimated the flow is more than ample to supply Cheyenne, and it is possible fe pipe line will be built.