Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 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 Para* graphs for Busy People. Thursday, April 7. A farmer at Millville, Pa., has had his wife arrested for cruelty because Bhe insisted upon playing “Hiawatha” on a phonograph against his protests. Smith Lafayette Russell, a retired New York city business man, has endowed the Duane M. E. church in that city with $500,000. Lutheran clergymen of the mlddl* west are holding a conference at Do trolt The United States canal commission nas arrived at Colon, Panama, and been enthusiastically received. The Hawaiian legislature is in extra session trying to make income and outgo “jibe.” Friday, April 8. Miss Margaret Johnson, aged 70, of Buffalo, N. Y., having estate valued at $500,000, has been wedded to a Syrian, aged 28. Fred and William Meisner, twins, 23 years old, and Misses Agnes ar.d Helen McDermott, twins 21 years old, have just married at Chicago. The Tennessee Republican convention indorsed the administration of President Roosevelt and instructed its delegates to Chicago for him. Senator Burton did not go tp Kansas after his sentence, but to Washington. Four wealthy Chinese boys sent to Vancouver, B. C., from China under the auspices of the Chinese Reform association, have been drowned. A branch of the United States Naval League is about to be established at Paris. Saturday, April O. At Gutherie and in Oklahoma sand storms have prevailed, accompanied by a cold wave, unusual for this time of the year. Harvey Van Dine, the Chicago carbarn bandit, has accepted) the Roman Catbolie faith and says be Is happy and ready to die. President Roosevelt has, It Is said, selected ex-Secretary Root to nominate him at Chicago. The czar has decorated Baron Albert Schllppenback, Russian consul at Qbics go, with the order of St Anne. A bilS appropriating $250,000 for an agricultural college at Cornell university has passed the New York legislature. The Indian who was killed In the railway collision near Chicago Thursday was White Horse, but not the chlei of that name, who Is at home. The Joint committee of the Ohio legislature reported April 20 as the date for holding the Hanna memorial day exercises. Monday, April 11. The capital city of the Philippines is to be moved to high ground, 155 miles from Manila, where the climate is healthier. Mrs. Roosevelt has left Washington for Groton. Mass., for a visit to her sons. A rich find of gold is reported near Newark, 0., by Edward Stinger and George Slatter, of Columbus, O. President E. Benjamin Andrews, of the University of Nebraska, says ten children in one family are too many. Dr. Daniel C. Gilman, president of the Carnegie institution, was re-elected president of the American Oriental society. Professor Borden P. Bowne has been acquitted of the charges of heresy by the New York east conference. The twelfth national conference of Episcopal church clubs of the United States will be held In Christ church, St Paul, April 20-21. Tuesday, April IS. Elihu Root ex-secretary of war, has arrived In St. Paul to argue before the United States court for the Hill party in the Northern Securities case. Mrs. Elise Schaaf, formerly a prominent advocate of wmen’s right, committed suicide at her home in Charlottenberg, Germany. A political meeting at Samovar, near Agram, Croatia, ended with serious rioting. A cat belonging to John M. West which was tied in a bag at Salt Lake City and placed under the seat of a day coach on a California train and taken to Calientes, NeV., a distance of 337 miles, has turned up again at the West home. United States Commissioner Clarence L. Leeds, whose connection with Indian land comjgmles has been under Investigation, has resigned. Wednesday, April 13. Announcement has been made by the Educational Alliance of a gift amounting to $25,000 from Andrew Carnegie. Governor Hunt has sailed from San Juan for New York to confer with President Roosevelt relative to Porto Rican affairs. Governor Warfield has vetoed the bill recently passed by the Maryland legislature abolishing spring elections in the city of Baltimore. J. E. Sullivan, chief of the department of physical culture of the St Louis fair, has arranged the Decoration Day games for boys of the public schools in Missouri and Illinois. The B rannoek district local option bill for municipalities has passed the Ohio senate with amendments requiring concurrence by the bouse.