Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1903 — Notes of Current Events. [ARTICLE]

Notes of Current Events.

Edward M. Brown, former Commodore of the New York Yacht Club, is dead. Henry Diemer, n former bookmaker, died on the steps of a Chinese restaurant on Pell street in New York. As the result of a pistol duel at Chilesburg, Ivy., Henry Gray is dead and Louis Skaggs mortally wounded. Engine No. 50 on the Lake Erie and Western .Railroad crashed into the caboose of train No. <54 at Findlay, Ohioi. Ollie Brown, colored, was killed by her husband, Elijah Brown, at Tonganoxie, Kan. The killing was done while Brown was drunk. , A plain baud ring marked L. H. B. was taken out of a shark captured by sailors who arriTed in New Y'ork. Sam Parks, formerly business agent of the local Housesmiths and Bridgemen’s Union, is rery ill in the hospital in Sing Sing prison. A section hand named Peter Johnson was run down and instantly killed by a Missoftri Pacific passenger train in the yards at Atchison, Kan. The Port Arthur correspondent of a Japanese paper quotes Russian Admiral Aiexieff as saying that the Mikado’s ship* could destroy the Russian fleet.