Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1904 — NEWS BRIEFLY STATED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS BRIEFLY STATED.

Matters of General Interest Taken from the Wires. Some of the Happenings of the Past Week Given in Condensed Paragraphs for Busy People. Thursday, Feb. 18. All the Presbyterian missionaries In Korea are reported as unmolested. Minister Allen, at Seoul, cables that Wiju has been declared open to the commerce of the world by the Koread government. Eleanor Duse, the actress, is seriously ill with pneumonia, saya a dispatch from Genoa. Measles is the latest mishap to befall the Maine, which has been ordered to Guantanamo to isolate her crew. The second trial of prisoners connected w r ith the Ivischeneff massacres will begin on Monday at Kischeneff. Seneca lake, in New York, is frozen from shore to shore from Starkey to North Hector, for the first time since 1885. The national woman suffrage convention, at Washington, has adjourned ahie die.

Friday, Feb. 19. Six hundred delegates are in session at Tuskegee, Ala., considering the education of the negro in the south. The Wyoming anti-gambling law of 1901 has been sustained by a decision announced by the supreme court Doctor Jameson, of Transvaal raid fame, is to form a cabinet.for the Cape Colony. • Samuel Harper, son of President Harper, of the University of Chicago, has compiled a Russian grammer. Austen Chamberlain has informed the commons that there is no intention of again imposing a tax on grain. Representative James M. Miller has been renominated by the Republican convention of the Fourth Kansas district Mexico has officially declared her neutrality in relation to the war In the Far East

Saturday, Feb. to. National Association of Photographers will hold its next annual convention at St Louis, Oct 3 to 8. There is a report at London that the dowager empress of China is dead. Baltimore banks are lending money' freely to merchants to replenish their Btocka Tbe Fifth Ohio district Republican convention refused to instruct for Roosevelt A big oil strike was made on the farm of Jacob Birdick.flve miles northeast of Oelina, O. The well is rated at 400 barrels a day. George Gardner, of Lowell, defeated “Kid” Carter, of Brooklyn, in a sixround bout at Milwaukee. , The Presbyterian union is to be effected on the doctrinal basis of the confession of faith of the Presbyterian church as revised in 1903.

Monday. Feb. 22. Rev. William Rupard, aged 79 years, died suddenly of heart failure at Lexington. Ky. He bad been s Baptist pastor there fifty-one yearn General Charles Dick seems to be the almost certain successor of Hanna in the United States senate. Dr. Amador has been elected and inaugurated first president of the new republic of Panama. The cushions on which General Grant partook of a Japanese banquet are still preserved at Nagasaki. Fourteen lives were lost and twenty persons injured in a fire in a celluloid factory in Paris. The czar will go to east and take personal command of the army in the spring, according to a Rome newspaper.

Tuesday, Feb. 23. The civilians at Vladivostok have been ordered to leave, owing to the scarcity of food. The body of Henry Hazleton, of St. Louts, who had been missing since Dec. 20, 1903, has been taken from the river Seine at Paris. His death is a mystery. The Heber City branch of the Denver and Rio Grande railroad is completely blocked by a huge snowslide In the canon below Primal Veil falls. Chekib Bey, the Turkish minister at Washington, believes war in the Balkans is impending. The Canadian government will grant New Zealand the tariff preference of 33 1-3 per cent In return for the New Zealand preference. Wednesday, Feb. 24. The building of the railroad along the southern shore of the Crimea with Russian state funds has been postponed on account of the war. The annual schedule meeting'of the National Base Ball League ha* been called for Tuesday, March 1, at New York. * An exhibition of 150 of Whistler’s paintings is open at Boston. The situation in the Balkans la considered st Rome to have improved. Don Jaime, son of the Spanish pretender, will serve Rossis against the Japanese. For the third consecutive time Wylie O. Grant and Robert Leroy have won at New York the Indoor tennis championship of the United States. W. K. Vanderbilt Jr.; Dr. and Mrs. W. Seward Webb, and several other New York society people are at Havana and have engaged all the rooms In a small select hotel near the sea front