Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 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 Ppople. Thursday, Msreh 31. The finance committee of the Chicago board of education has voted to set aside $500,000 for the proposed commercial high schooL On« of the mines in Possiet bey, near Vladivostok, has been exploded by a whale, whose mutilated remains have been washed ashore. Princess Cantacuzene .daughter of General Fred. Grant, has given birth to a girl. The first one was a boy. The navy department will 6end a torpedo boat destroyer and the gunboat Nashville to St. Louis during the fair. The department of manufacturers of the World’s fair has arranged for an exhibit to be known as “The American Costume Exhibit’’ Andrew Carnegie has given $30,000 for a new library for Berea college In Kentucky. Friday. April 1. Simeon W. King has been reappointed to the position of United States commissioner at Chicago. It is said that a small hill in Maine, near the New Brunswick line, has disappeared, the site now being occupied by a lake. Fairbanks, of Indiana, Is a “receptive" candidate for the vice presidential nomination. » Most Rev. John M. Farley, archbishop of the Roman Catholic archdiocese of New York, has arrived home from a visit to the pope. South Dakota Democrats, in convention, declared for Hearst for president. Miss Maud Ingersoll attempted to stab herself In New York because of the loss of $150,000 in Wall street. Saturday, April 2. The largest insurance policy ever taken out by an individual —namely, one for $1,500,000 —has Just been issued by the Mutual Life, of New York, to James C. Colgate, banker and financier. April strikee are numerous in New England, but not serious. Among the passengers sailing from San Francisco for Manila by the transport Logan were Mrs. Wood and her three children. Floods in eastern Montana are still causing much trouble. February mortality in New York state was 12,749, the highest on record for the month. Prizes of $150,000 are offered by the World’s fair to the winners in the aeronautic contests. Three hundred hod carriers have struck at Cincinnati for an increase of 20 cents a day. Monday, April 4. Fifty-five persons died of pneumonia at St. Louis last week. The board of lady managers of the World’s fair has assumed charge of the woman’s building at St. Louis. Theodore Thomas will be the orchestral leader during the national saengtrfest to be held In Milwaukee this summer. Plans for a SIOO,OOO chemical building for the University of Wisconsin have been accepted by the regents. Jorge Holquin, Junior secretary of Colombia at Paris, says tbat if tbe French courts refuse Colombia "justice” as to tbe Panama canal she will resort to arms.

"As a reward for the capture of the Redding train hold-up the Southern Pacific offers $250, Wells-Fargo S3OO and the state S3OO. Heavy cattle losses have resulted on the prairies of North Dakota from the recent blizzard. Several owners report the loss of entire herds. April S. "Give till it hurts,” Raid Rev. William O. Waters at Grace Episcopal church, Chicago, and $50,000 was raised for the endowment fund within a few minutes. In Lawrence county. 111., and Knox county, Ind., the flood loss will be sl,000,000, according to the most conservative estimates. John E. Cowdin has been elected a steward of the National Steeplechase and Hunt association, vice Whitney, deceased. A general rain is falling over the larger portion of Oklahoma, the most beneficial and extensive since last October. The Woman’s Municipal League, of the city of New York, Ms been incorporated to promote among women an intelligent interest in municipal affairs. Wednesday, April 6. Mrs. Gertrude Morris and Mrs. Ellen Jean, both colored, have been awarded SIOO each by a Chicago Jury because they were refused admission to the Columbus theater. Two San Francisco lawyers have been awarded $150,000 fees for their services in settling the Charles L. Fair estate. Louise Michel, the anarchist speaker and writer, is dying at Paris. A voting machine was used yesterday for the first time in a Chicago election. William J. Bryan is on bis farm near Lincoln, Neb., doing his spring planting. The humanitarians of St Louis refuse to let the Igorrotes eat dogs’ meat an the ground that it is 'Vruel and inhuman.” <