Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1904 — This and That. [ARTICLE]

This and That.

C. H. Perham of Chicago was killed and Thomas Peterson, also of Chicago, was seriously injured by the breaking of a derrick at Sayre, Pa. Miss Mnrj- Helen Smiley of St. Louis -has telegraphed her family announcing her marriage to Harry V. Phelps, a wealthy cotton planter of Xittayuma, Miss. School children placed' a bolt on the track before the Rock Island passenger train from the east at a point ten miles east of Colorado Springs, Colo., and the locomotive, baggage car and first coach were derailed. Three trainmen were badly hurt # Charles Hiilsou, aged 30 years, was shot and killed by Mattie Lee in a saloon at Phillipsbnrg, Mont. The woman _ claimed Hillson owed her a small sum of money and followed him into a saloon armed with a revolver. A world-wide observance of March 7, 1904, as Bible Sunday, proposed by the British and Foreign Bible Society, has been approved by the American Bible Society. On that date falls the centenary of tke British society, which during the century has distributed 180.000.00 Q volumes of the scriptures is about 370 languages.