Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 March 1904 — NEWS BRIEFLY STATED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS BRIEFLY STATED.

Matters of General Interest Taken from the Wires. <

■awe of the Happening, oftfie Put Week Given In Condenaed Paragraph. for Busy People.

Thursday, March 10. George Frieser, a cobbler who bad s small fortune, died at Cincinnati and at bis funeral eacb mourner was paid for time lost In attending the burial service*.

The senate of Glasgow university has resolved to confer the honorary degree of LL. D. on Ambassador Choate.

The steamship Camboge sank off the coast of Cochin, China, and about fifty Annamese were drowned.

Mme. Patti has conceled all her concert engagements and is « route to New York, whence she will sail for home.

Andrew Carnegie, in a lecture at Cooper union, New York, says a distribution of wealth Is a sacred trust upon milionaires.

Friday, March 11. Chairman Jones, of the national Democratic committee, has issued a call for A meeting of the committee on arrangements at St. Louis on April 4. John K. Hammerstad.a Chicago boy, is dead of lockjaw acquired through a recent vaccination sore. The British commander in Somaliland surprised the Mullah’s forces, killed 150 of them and captured 8,000 camels.

Workmen drilling for water at St. Louis struck oil at a depth of 565 feet.

St. Petersburg editors are pessimistic as to the situation in the Balkans.

The floods in Pennsylvania are beginning to subside after doing great damage.

Saturday, March 12. Secretary Taft has accepted an invitation to deliver an address at Topeka, Kan., on May 30 next.

Dr. Sarah Hackett Stevenson, who Is still confined to a hospital at Chicago, has recovered from her recent stroke of paralysis. Bock Island, 111., is threatened by a large Ice gorge forming In the Mississippi.

The entire east end section of Pittsburg is suffering from a water famine. George W. Tiebenor, tn a suit for damages against Chicago because of injuries received on a sidewalk, bus been awarded $4,500. The Associated Press has arranged that its Far East war news will come east instead of west, thus reaching this country first instead of Europe and Great Britain.

The earthquake at Lima, Peru, March 4 was recorded by the seismograph at the John Hopkins university, Baltimore.

Monday. March 14b

It is said that Patti took away with her $200,000 as her share of the proceeds of her concert tour. Grau’s share is said to have been $25,000 minus.

Mayor Harrison, of Chicago, has signed the annual city appropriation bill, amounting to more than $38,000,000.

The Westchester county Bepublican convention held in White Plains, N. Y., waß the first in New York state to indorse President Boosevelt. The wife of Preston Green, in divorce proceedings at Chicago, testified that her husband spanked ber with a strap. District Judge Palmer, at Denver, Colo., has made an order for a special grand jury to investigate election and registration frauds there. The newspaper libel law enacted by the legislature of 1901 has been declared unconstitutional by the Kansas supreme court. *

Tuesday, March 15.

After fighting lasting two days San Pedro de Macoris, San Domingo, has been recaptured by the government forces from the rebels.

At a meeting at Pittsburg of the steel baT pool the price of steel bars was increased $1 all around. The Mayflower, U. 8. N., with Assistant Secretary of State Loomis and Admiral Dewey on board, has sailed from Havana for Washington. Fully six Inches of snow has fallen throughout the Wyoming valley. Royalton, Pa., has made an appeal to the citizens of Harrisburg for contributions of food, clothing and money for the flood sufferers there. Prince Po Lun, China’s commissioner to the St. Louis exposition, has sailed for Japan en route to the United States.

Wednesday, March 16.

An unknown man in a box at the American theater, New York, fired a shot at one of the performers on the stage and then escaped. According to the figures of Superintendent McQueary, of the Ohicago Parental school, 16 cents a day is enough to provide sufficient food for a boy or an adult.

William W. -Seeker, proprietor of a tailoring establishment at Chicago, has been sued for $5,000 for breach of promise by Charlotte Schulz, 68 years old, his former housekeeper.

The General Association of Moulding Manufacturers of the United States Is in session at'West Baden, Ind. Washington; March 16. Secretary Wilson baa gone to Florida for a short period.