Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 April 1904 — NEWS BRIEFLY STATED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS BRIEFLY STATED.

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 11 Examinations for the Rhode* Oxford scholarships were held in many states yesterday. At the second Maine district Republican convention Hon. Charles E. Littlefield was renominated for' congress. Amid applause In the house the general deficiency bill, the last of the general appropriation bills, has been reported. Prince Hugo Hohenlohe, brother of the head of the Hobenlothe-Oebringer family, married Mme. Helga, a famous circus rider, at Berlin. The first trip through the new subway at New York in a regulation motor car with passengers was made yesterday. Friday, April IS. Jack Monroe, the heavy-weight pugilist, was defeated in a wrestling bout with Jim McCauley, at St Paul. The stewards of the British Jockey club have withdrawn their sentence warning Lester Reiff, the jockey, off the turf. Frank C. Maeder. of St Louis, a stockholder of the Buffalo Bill Wild West show, wants a receiver appointed for the show. Pope Pius has sent to the czar his condolence on the death of Admiral Makaroff. Saturday, April 16. Mrs. Louis Mlchells was given a verdict of $2,500 at Alexandria, La., against a man who “prostrated her with abusive language.” Communication between Buffalo and Cleveland by wireless telegraphy for commercial purposes has been opened. Lieutenant A. G. Sharpley, of the Twelfth cavalry, stationed In the Philippines, has been court martialed for an attempt to alienate the affections of an enlisted man's wife.

Charles H. McCarthy, of Philadelphia. has been formally offered the chair of secular history at the Catholic University at Washington. The senate has passed a Joint resolution ordering the printing of 10,000 copies of the report of the anthracite coal strike commission. Monday, April 18. William Rothwell ("Young Corbett”), the pugilist, has sailed for a three months’ visit to Europe. Professors C. F. Burgess and Carl Hambuechin, of the college of engineering of the University of Wisconsin have discovered a method of making pure iron at a fraction of a cent a pound. The birth of a sdn to Mr. and Mrs. Will Kirehman. south of Sumner, la., makes five generations alive In one family. All the i*apers necessary for the transfer of the Panama canal to the United States are now completed at Paris, The melting snows have disclosed thousands of dead sheep on the ranges in Montana. The Chinese in St. Louis have subscribed $2,000 to the Japanese war fund. Judge Cleveland, gt New Haven, Conn., has refused to dismiss William J. Bryan as an executor of the Bennett estate. The mortuary report for St. Louis for last week shows .an increase of ten in the number of fatalities due to pneumonia.

Tuesday, April 19. During the St Louis exposition Chicago will be billed as a summer resort point by all of the western railroads. Vice Admiral Makaroff’s widow has been granted an annual pension of SIO,OOO. Benny Yanger and Tommy Mowntt, both of Chicago, fought six rounds at Chicago, the referee deckling the bout a draw. It is announced that the University of CMcago will In a short time inaugurate the Oxford Idea of teaching and will abandon the “university” system. From Feb, 6 to April 16 there was coined $60,180,890 In S2O gold pieces at the Philadelphia mint. The Iroquois theater at Chicago has been sold to Rich & Harris of New York and Boston, who will rename it and devote It to vaudeville. Wednesday, April SO. The National Academy of Sciences is holding its fortieth annual session at Washington. The Republicans of Catalonia, Spain, are greatly depressed because of the success of King Alfonso’s tour. Snow slides, some of them fatal, are reported from almost every point -In the interior of Birtish Columbia. Constable John Small, a Chicagoan, failed to get a telephone connection by dropping a nickel in the slot, went to law and got a 5-eent judgment Massachusetts celebrated with great unanimity the anniversary of ,the bat tie of Lexington. f The Republican territorial convention of Hawaii has instructed for President Roosevelt The Duke of Sutherland Is In British Columbia gathering material In aid of Chamberlain’s fiscal campaign. There is a great demand from Japan for refined petroleum, because the war has cut off the •upply from Bus- • •ia. \ _ % A . . * . * - . •---