Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1904 — NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS.

Mrs. Helen Minerva Evnrts, wife of tlio late Senator William M. Evurts, died at her home in Windsor, Vt, Eire at Newark, N. J., destroyed the plant of the Specialty Paper Box Company, causing a loss of $30,000. The destruction of the plate mill of the Glasgow Iron Company at Pottstown, Pa., caused a loss of $30,000 and threw 100 men out of employment. Walter James, who* stole S2OO from Mrs. C. A. Star at Dayton, Ohio, later spending $27 of it for Christmas presents for his invalid wife, has been released. Mrs. Jane Butler, aged 51, and her brother, Thomas Devine, were burned to death in a slight fire at Philadelphia, started by the overturning of an oil stove. Harry G. Selfridge, George E. Cole and Col. W., P. Rend, wealthy Chicago business men, earned 50 cents each serving as jurors In a S2OO ease in Justice Brad well’s court. The Tope has Issued of his own accord a note on the subject of sacred music in churches, recommending the Gregorian chant. The note will be published in the Osservatore Romano. The West Side Lyceum at New York was damaged SOO,OOO by fire. Three apartment buildings on Columbus avenue, near Sixty-eighth street, were seriously damaged at the same time. Columbian Typographical Union, No. 101, most of the members of winch are employed in the government printing office, has decided to oppose the introduction of typesetting machines iu the government establishment. Seven thousand sheep were burned to death at the East Buffalo, N. Y. stock yards. The long sheds In which they were confined were swept by the flames before any of the animals could be released. The loss is estimated at $75,000. Arthur Stuart, colored, who was alleged to have taken part in the killing of a white man in a fight, was beaten to death In the Jail at Pineapple, Ala., by a mob. The crowd then poured kerosene over the body, set fire to it, and fled. The jail caught fire and was destroyed. In the home of Miss Susie Gillam, whom he was to have married in Knoxville, Teun., J. L. Householder, aged 20, drank carbolic acid, after he had sent the young lady from the room to get him a drink of water. He died in terrible Lgony a few minutes later before her