Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1904 — NEWS BRIEFLY STATED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS BRIEFLY STATED.

Matters of General Interest Taken from the Wires. j _______ Some of the Happenings of the Past Week Given in Condensed Para, graphs for Busy People. % Thursday, March 3. J. J. Calvey, a clerk at the Auditorium hotel at Chicago, found a purse containing $3,000, and when he returned It to It* owner was given sl. The Mississippi legislature has adopted resolutions upholding Governor Vardanian in his efforts to prevent lynchings. •William Stewart, father of Graeme Stewart, who died intestate at Chicago, left an estate valued at SBOO,OOO. An estimate of the value of the estate of the late William C. Whitney puts it at $1,000,000 in realty and $lO,000,000 in personals. The ice in the Susquehanna river at Harrisburg, Pa., still remains firm and uncracked. Elmer Dover, secretary of the Republican national committee, is ill and confined to his room at Cleveland, O. The Manmee river in Ohio is on the rampage and threatening much havoc to property.

Friday, March 4. Prices have risen 100 per cent, at Harbin, Manchuria, on some articles. Members of the board of lady managers of the World’s fair at St. Louis were poisoned by oyster cocktails served for luncheon. Morton Fox died at Dover, Del., as the result of the shock sustained by the loss of his entire family in the Iroquois theater horror. The French court of cassation has begun the hearing of the Dreyfus appeal. The thermometer fell forty degrees in eight hours at Parkersburg, W. Va., dropping from 68 to 28 degrees. l>r. Leila S. McKee has resigned the presidency of the Western Female college at Oxford, 0., and she will be succeeded by Dr. Lillian W .Johnson, of Memphis.

Saturday, March 5. Fourth Assistant Postmaster General Bristow, who has been sick for some time, is improved, but is still very siek. Lulu Tyler Gates, wife of Rev. Errett Gates, instructor in church history at the University of Chicago, has instituted a suit for divorce. Captain Algernon Sartoris, General Grant’s grandson, “went to Rome” for a bride. He is to wed a French Roman Catholic. Senator Fairbanks declines to say whether he will accept the second place with Roosevelt. A monument of coal, 109 feet high, will be erected at St Louis as a West Virginia exhibit. Miss Amy Morquitz, the St Louis girl betrothed to Frank Allison, who was killed in the skyscraper collapse at New York, lost a former lover by accident just one year ago.

Monday. March 7. Lester B. Lancaster, of Rochester, N. Y., is suing his wife for divorce, alleging that she took the place of her twin sister Emily at the altar. Striking truck drivers at Kansas City are mobbing the men who took their places. German and Czech students at Prague are rioting over the Russo-Jap-anese war. The Russian minister to the Vatican has protested against the hostile'tone of the Roman Catholic press toward Russia. August Edmund Wachter, the aged father of Representative Wachter, fell from a third-story window of his home at Baltimore and was killed. Dr. Edwin A. Schell has begun suit for $50,000 against Rev. Chas. Parkhurst, because of a statement in Zion’s Herald.

Tuesday, March 8. Emperor William is suffering from a severe cold and will not attend the funeral of Field Marshal Count von Waldersee. The San Domingo insurgents have made another vigorous attack upon the capital, losin ga general and three soldiers. Married only three weeks ago, Mrs. Martha Ludwig has notified the Chicago police that her husband absconded after taking her savings, amounting to *2oa Marie Tempest, the actress, is seriously ill In Boston with throat trouble which it is feared will develop into diphtheria. David Sears, of Boston, has made a gift of $250,000 to Harvard university at a testimonial of his regard for President Eliot

Wednesday, March 9. The sale of season tickets to the Louisiana Purchase exposition has commenced. The thirteenth annual meeting of the Mississippi Valley Lumbermen’s association 1b in session at Minneapolis. Flood conditions at Harrisburg, Pa., are so Improved that serious trouble Is not now expected. The St Petersburg Gazette urges a boycott of British goods and ship*. Charitable institutions are bequeathed $200,000 by Sarah Sebermerhorn, daughter of W. C. Schermerborn, of Newport and New York. Among the passengers on the steamer Kaiser Wilhelm 11, arrived at New York, was Peter De Abrew, of the Cingalese commission to the SL Louis exposition. , \