Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 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. Thandtf, March *4, Jnat because he plotted a revolution In Honduras ex-President Bonilla has been, it is said, condemned to be shot. Ban Johnson has sold the Washington American League base ball club to T. C. Noyes and William J. Dwyer. It is said that General Miles has accepted a position on the editorial staff of the Newspaper Enterprise to write of the Russo-Japanese war. United States Consul Fee, at Bombay, has lost a daughter by the plague, and his wife is now ill with the terrible disease. Bishop John H. Vincent, of the Methodist Episcopal church, has arrived at New York after an Episcopal tour of the European stations. Cornell will enter a crew in the regatta which the University of Wisconsin will hold at Madison on June 9. Friday, March 25. The Republican state central committee of Wisconsin lacked a quorum and adjourned until April G, when the convention date will be chosen. The LaCrosse river Is over its banks between LaCrosse and West Salem, Wis., and many small railroad bridges are in danger. The situation of French Premier Combes’ cabinet continues to be a delicate one. The only rain of consequence in months lias just fallen throughout central Kansas. The devotion of the young empress to the work of the Red Cross society has aroused the enthusiastic admiration of the Russian people. Betting on the “Young Corbett”Britt fight is 10 to 6 at San Francisco in favor of Rothwell. Saturday, March 26. The Jacob Tome Institute at Fort Deposit, Md.. has been closed, owing to the prevalence of typhoid fever in the boarding school. The porte and Austro-Russian embassies have reached an agreement in regard to the organization of the Macedonian gen d’armerie under European officers. This week’s fatalities from pneumonia at New York were 278, against 350 last week. The Chicago Society of the War of 1812 elected Colonel William Porter Adams president and Carter H. Harrison vice president. Vice President Clough denies that

A new Northern Securities company la forming. The Jacob Tome institute at Port Deposit, Md., Ims been closed owing to the prevalence of typhoid fever. Monday, March 18. Kate D. Rieheson is suing her husband for a divorce at St Paul, and alleges that he tried to poison her through a kiss, which left a sweet mtealilc taste on her lips. The will of Dr. Gilwee, probated in St Louis, sets aside $2,000 as a trust fund to feed and care for his horse, which had been faithful to him for twenty-three years. A snow blockade tied up the Northern trans-continental roads in North Dakota, Montana and British Columbia for forty-eight hours ended Saturday. Simultaneous raids made at New York on three alleged pool rooms by the police secured about 350 prisoners, including forty women. Colonel T. B. Needles, of the Dawes commission, states that lie has not resigned' and has no intention of doing so. B. S. Bonesteel, a lawyer, arrested in Dallas, Tex., under indictment for forgery at Taylorsville, 111., escaped from the police by feigning sickness. Tuesday, March 20. A steel corset stay saved the life of Georgia Ames, who shot herself just after she was ejected from a saloon at Chicago. Dr. Samuel Darling, pathologist of the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Baltimore, believes he has discovered the germ that causes mumps. The police at St. Louis have discovered dynamite concealed in a barn, which they believe was to he used in blowing up livery stables by the striking drivers. A test at New York of the "pull” of an elephant weighing 12.u00 showed him to be equal to fifty average-sized men. The entire lowland region in the river section of California is threatened with a flood. Wednesday, March 30, Officials of the Duluth and Iron Range Railroad company have issued an order forbidding the playing of cards on any of its trains*. The dock managers and representatives of the International Longshoremen's u. !i are holding a joint conference at Cleveland. O. Counsel for Senator Burton has filed a motion at St. Louis in arrest of judgment. hi is case is likely to run on until next December. Two Chicago patrol sergeants who shadowed patrolmen were forced by him to tell their business when they sought to escape his notice by hiding In an alley. The central Pennsylvania operators and miners’ joint scale committee, in session at Altoona, Pa., are deadlocked).