Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 May 1904 — NEWS BRIEFLY STATED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS BRIEFLY STATED.

The republican judicial convention at Brook Wednesday nominated Robert O. Graves, of Morocco, for prosecuting attorney on the twelth ballot.

Chairman O’Brien’s call for the State convention on May 12 to elect delegates to the national convention was issued Tuesday. Although no state candidates are to be nominated at this time, a large gathering is assured by the importance of the business to be transacted. The convention will be composed of 1,547 delegates, most of whom have already been elected.

Edward J. Fogarty was re-elect-ed mayor of South Bend last Tuesday by an increased majority and will now allow his name to be used for the democratic nomination for governor. The democrats made numerous gains all over the state in Tuesday’s election, invading many heretofore considered impregnable republican strongholds. “Harbor” Knotts was defeated for re-election as mayor of Hammond by Lawrence Becker by the small plurality of 25.

According to reports from St. Louis the St. Louisians can give the Chicagoans cards and spades on extortion practised on world’s fair visitors, and Windy City people were not slow in this line at the beginning of the Chicago exhibition. If this system of robbery is kept up by St. Louis, people should show their disapprobation of such methods by staying away from their show. Hotels and boarding houses have thribled ■

their rates and graftism meets one on every hand, is the report that comes from there from reliable sources.

Matters of General Interest Taken from the Wires.

Thursday, April 98. The ekMßßth uouufU convention of the IrrtEroatkJUEd Kindergarten union to tn fwwdon at Wacbesteß, N. Y. Grocer CtovSkmO will deliver a lecture at Prbwatan May 2 on "Olmunstances of Che GtOnago Riots of 18U4.” Eugene V. Dobs is to be nominated for tin presidency of the United States at the Socialist eoirventian at Chicago noKt Sunday. Nineteen poor families ■were evicted from one tenement at New York because they would not pay increased rent Tbe great organ in Festival Hall at the World's fair wlli not be completely installed until June 1. The amnlveraaiy of Geraiml Granfe birth was oetehcatad in a number of dtVaa. K. D. Brought and a child, name not learned, tnjurqfl fn Sunday's tornado at Fatrtanda, L T„ have since died.

rrlrtuy, April 20.

Forty-revem young women Jnst graduated from tbe Chicago Training school will take up home and foreign missionary work. In order to aoaananodnte his art treasurers Ptecpaut Morgan h:is bough* the house adjoining his English residence at Prince's Guta, London, for $150,000; Aecompoiakll by King Victor Emmanuel PwsWkujt Lew bet has gone from Rome to Naplt*. The Women's lYesbytarinn board of missions of Che northwest lias Just closed a mooting a* Grand Rapids, Mkh.

It is reported that the U. M. W. will call off the mine strikes tn Utah, Colorado, New Mexico and Wyoming. IvrnifWT Wilhelm has arrived at Karlsruhe, (hnmuiy, from his Mediterranean trip.

Saturday, April DO. Thloros rode up to a barn at Chicago, hitched their horse* to a new brougham and drove away. A Newfoundland dog eaved a horse from drowning at St PauL The animal had floundered into the liver and the flog seized the reinß and guided it ashore. The number of miners tilled by the gas explosion in the Reunion mine near Seville, Spain, was fifty-three. A speed of 100.4 miles per hour waß made by a train on the Michigan Central for 5.04 miles. Some thief In tlte St Louis World’s fair grounds lias been drinking wine in the Portuguese exhibit that Is worth sllO a quart it is so old.

Monday, May 2. At Chicago last month’s temperature was 10 degrees on on average below the normal. The representatives otf the Lake Carriers and the Masters' and Pilots’ association will hold a conference at Cleveland, 0., next Thursday. By order of the Boston pulVoo board wtunen are burred from drinking liquor in tlie saloons of the City. Former Sjieaker Henderson says one of the chief reasons why he 1b leaving New York is that he cannot “step lively” with his wuodwn leg. The electric chair Instead of the gallows Is advised by the grand Jury at Chicago In Its final report. Speaker Cannon declares that be would rather go to raisin* oum than accer*t the vice presidency. Caj*ers Folk of Brunson, S. CL, shot and probably fatally woundßd bis mother, mistaking her for a burglar.

Tuesday, May 3. Southerners threaten to boycott the navy because of the action of the department in relieving from duty Lieutenant David Boyd, recruiting officer at New Orleans, who wooki enlist only whites. Los Angelm, Col., ts filling up with delegates to the general oanferonoe of the Methodist Episcopal church. President Nicholes Murray Butler, of Columbia university, has announced a gift to the university, the amount of which and the donor are not made public. Kansas will he T>o ream old May 30, and will celebrate the fact. There Is over two feet of enow on the streets of Cripple Creek, Colo., and twice as much in the hills. Berlin newspapers miniate the importance of the Japanese victory on the Y&Jtl Wednesday, May 4. All central Texas was visited by a terrific rain, and great damage was done to crops in the fields and property In towns. L. M. Dunning, 1905, of Indianapolis, has been elected captain of the Princeton gymnastic team for next season. Pols LaFollett®, daughter of Governor LaP'ollette and a student at the University of Wisconsin, will go on the stage. The senior colleges council at the University of Chicago has passed resolutions condemning potty gambling among students. I >rew college, at Carmel, N. Y, a pioneer Methodist educational institution, has been destroyed by fire; loss, SIOO,OOO. A story is current at New Tort that the debts of the late William C. Whitney will eat up his estate.