Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 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; 85. Floods In Tropoll have destroyed much property and many lives aTe believed) to have been lost. John D. Rockefeller has donated sl,500,000 to Johns Hopkins hoslptal at Baltimore to tide the institution over the losses caused by the recent tire. It has just become known that the Wells-Fargo Express company was robbed of $90,000 two weeks ago at Iraputito, Mex. The socialists of Main! have nominated Captain William P. Rogers, of Freeport, as their candidate for governor. The Mine Managers’ and Assistants’ Mutual Aid Association of the United States is in session at Springfield, 111. tim of the dynamite explosion at Ogden, Utah, to die. Minneapolis flour millers are put to It for cars in which to load their output.

Friday, Feb. 80. A prize of SSO has been pffered for the most appropriate Irish name for a new park at Chicago. E. G. Cooley, superintendent of the Chicago public schools, has been chosen president of the National Educational association, which was in session at Atlanta, Ga. President Roosevelt has signed the ratification to be exchanged between the United States and the republic of Panama on the isthmian canal treaty. Horace Burt, ex-president of the Union Pacific, was a passenger on the ship Korea, seized by the Japanese at Na gasnki. The Philadelphia branch of the Red Cross society, independent of the national society, will send ten nurses to Japan. - , The regular Roosevelt ticket was elected by a large majority in the primaries at St. Joseph, Mo. Saturday, Feb. 87. Fifteen thousand employes of the Buenos Ayres-Rosario railroad in Argentina have gone on strike. Simon Burns, president of the Window Glass Workers. L. A. 300. K. of L.. lias formally announced his intention of retiring.

A woman guest was attacked by a man who tried to steal her diamond earrings as she was passing through a corridor of the Auditorium hotel at Chicago. The Chicago car-barn bandits are trying to save their necks by proving insanity. William J. Bryan called on Mayor McClellan and remained in conference with him for some time. Nearly 300 cases containing Egypt’s compete exhibit at the Louisiana Purchase exposition have arrived lit the fair grounds at St. Louis. United States Minister Thomas and Mrs. Thomas, entertained the crown Prince of Sweden and Norway at a banquet at Stockholm. Monday. Feb. 29. Out of a total of 274 deaths in St. Louis during the past week, fifty-four resulted from pneumonia. A dispatch to Paris from Colombia reports continued indecision on the part of the central government with respect to Panama. French reinforcements thus far under orders to go to Indo-China number 3,000 men. Japanese engineers have left for Chemulpo, Korea, to endeavor to raise the Russian cruiser Vhriag. Plans are already being made for rebuilding the district devastated by fire at Rochester, N. Y. ■Women have been ordered out of all Roman Catholic church choirs and boys are to lie substituted, by an order of Pope Pius.

Tuesday, March 1. New York union men have been admonished to drink whisky only when the bottle has the union label. President Harper, of Chicago university, is In a hospital awaiting an operation for appendicitis. February at Chicago was the coldest February for nine years. Snow fell on nineteen days of that month. Congressional elections In Cuba were peactful. The Liberals have gained In the rouse. Angered by snowballs with which a number of boys were pelting him a Chicago motorman whipped out a revolver and fired several bullets at the boys. Governor Vardaman, of Mississippi, ordered special trains to carry himself and staff and state militia to a point where some “best citizens” were Wednesday, March 2. Mr. and Mrs. R. A, Wodricb, of Forest Glen (Chicago suburb), adopted Mrs. Minnie Krueger and her four sons, making the mother a sister of her own children. Sylvester Crouch, a 14-year-old lamate of the Ohio Industrial school at Lancaster, died of heart disease while being spanked for an infraction of the rules. Twenty-six Russian residents of Ansonia. Conn., have left there for Russia to be recruited in the Russian army. Aa attempt was made at tbe Fairi fax (Va.) county court bouse to steal ’ George Washington's will. \ About 10,000 dock laborers are out of employment at Odessa, Russia, on account of the stoppage of sea boat