Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1904 — NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS.

Robbers blew open -tlx* safe of a bank at Goff. Kan., and secured $.‘1,000. They escaped on a handcar. * The Czarina is a train ill nt St. Petersburg and her physicians fear that an abscess is forming in her •ear. Mr. and Mrs. ('handler, of Hallimore, Md., have donated $25,000 to Booth Tucker for the Salvation Army. Col. Charles I)enhy of Indiana, former United States minister to China, died suddenly at Jamestown. X. V., while on a lecture tour. St. Patrick's Chtmdi, an old landmark, and the oldest Catholic,church in 1 ed, Mass., was destroyed by tire. The loss will exceed SIOO,OOO. The Masonic nod Bloom blocks nt Trinidad, Colo., with the Fowler furniture store and F. A. Caldwell's grocery, burned. Loss, SIOO,OOO. The indictments against Richard Canfield on the charge of gambling were dismissed. Canfield was charged with keeping a gambling house In New York City. The removal of disfiguring advertising signs along raiirond lines was recommended by Gov. Murphy in message to New Jersey Legislature; State's l*enuty is marred by them, he says. Hoover Bros.' large dry goods and shoe store was almost entirely destroyed by fire in Findlay, Ohio. The cause of the tire was a gas explosion on the second floor. The loss Is S4O,(MX). The use of coffee and tea as beverages has been put under the ban by the Mon moil church, and the edict lias gone forth from the big temple that both must be eliminated from the Mormon bill of fare. Adjt. Gen. Bell of Colorado says that evacuation of tiie military camps at Telluride and Cripple Creek lias begun and that only provost guards would be posted at these places for cases of emergency. The text of the treaty between Japan and China, made public in Washington, shows that Japan lias received many favors as a fafored nation. Agreement is made for an international place of residence. A clergyman of the name of Moss and his son were shot and killed near Elmore, I. T.. by Alford Turner, a stockman. The killing, it is alleged, was the result of a misunderstanding over a lease of stock field. The safe in the bank of Louis Ainshel. nt McKees Itoeks, n suburb of Fittslmrg. was blown open with dynamite, and it is reported that a large sum of money was taken. The burglars escaped. Amshel is a foreign banker. Eight children were seriously injured while coasting on Court street hill, in Newark, N. J. A bobsled carrying fifteen persons collided with a trolley car while going at full speed. It is thought some of the iujured may die. The rabbit drive on Lower Butter Creek, Echo, Ore., was tlie largest in the history of the, Northwest. It is estimated that 10,000 rabbits were killed and 700 persons, men, women and children, participated. Two persons were iujured. The funeral of James Kelly, the oldest policeman in the world, took place in Mankato. Minn. He was 104 years old and had walked a boat without missing a day since 1881 until six weeks ago, when he fell and received fatal injuries. Miss Jean O’Neill, chambermaid in a Salt Lake City hotel, became the bride of John Oldham, a millionaire mine owner. The marriage is the culmination of a romance that had its inception in the Salt Lake City hostelry ten days before. Oldham is 70 years old. A gang of Japanese gamblers assas ciliated G. 11. Gleunan, a civil engineer, on t£e Island of'Kauai, Hawaii, by set-. JgMf off dynamite under his bed. The motive was revenge because he prevented the gamblers from preying on the workmen, Gleunan was a native of