Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 May 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. Thursday, May 1 9. During her stay at St. Louis Miss Helen Gould has been closely guarded to prevent kodak fiends from taking snap shots of her. It ia reported that ex-“ Boss” Richard Croker will go to Dublin to reside permanently. Secretary Taft has decided to go to the Adirondack mountains for ten days or two weeks for the benefit of his health. The French government has made M. Philippe Buuau-Varilla, first minister of Panama to the United States, an officer of the Legion of Honor. The Georgia supreme court has sustained the law prohibiting betting and pool selling on borse races. Friday, May 13. The regular Republican convention of the Fifth Louisiana district instructed for Roosevelt The Cincinnati May music festival Is in progress and ia very successful so far. The Investigation of the New York postofflee by the postofflee department shows Irregularities, but no crookedness. The Mothers’ Congress in session at Chicago claims the credit for inaugurating the fight against Senator Smoot The long-pending and bitter legal contest between the Burns-Hlcks and Hayes factions of the Knights of Labor has been decided at Washington in favor of the former. One hundred members of the California Press association has left San Francisco for St Louis to visit the World’s fair.

fctardar, May HL At an auction In Christie's rooms, London** Holbein miniature of Frances Howard, duchess of Norfolk, realized the unprecedented sum of $13,750. Arrangements have been completed at Charleston, $. C., to give horse races under electric light Secretary Wilson will leave Washington Tuesday next for St Louis to speak at the Good Roads’ convention, May lft. Mrs. Antonio Navarro (Mary Anderson) has rejected another inducement to get her to consent to make a tour of the United State*. There will be no signs at the St. Louis- World's fair warning visitors to “keep off the gras%." A petition to Governor Peabody and Mayor Wright to order out the National Guard to preserve order at the election at Denver next Tuesday has been signed by hundreds of Denver citizens. Monday, May lfl* Ex-Vice President Levi P. Morton has leased for a year a house at Paris. Augustus St Gaudens, the sculptor, has sent his acceptance of the request for him to design the monument to the late Senator Hanna. A dispute over drinks at Dayton, 0., resulted In the death of George Conley.a laborer, who was shot through the heart. Owing to differences as to a wage scale about 150 bakers of Cleveland have gone on strike. The Japanese charge the Russians with mutilating the corpses of Japanese soldiers. The jury at Minneapolis in the case of ex-Mayor A. A. Ames, on trial for bribery, disagreed. The annual convention of Baptists from all the northern states Is In session at Cleveland to continue until May 24. Tuesday, May IV. Rev. Dr. W. E. Parson, of the Church of the Reformation, In Washington, In hls sermon criticised the president and Mrs. Roosevelt for attending different churches. The International League of Press Clubs will hold Its annual convention at Put-ln-Bay, beginning July 17. Tn his inauguration address Governor Blanchard, of Louisiana, takes strong ground against mob law. The Republicans of the Ninth Illinois congressional district nominated for the fifth time Henry 8. Boutell. The Snow reflecting telescope erected at Yerkes' observatory, Williams Bay, Wls., for special observation of the sun, is to be moved to California for more favorable atmospheric conditions. Wednesday, May 18. After a full choral service tn Westminster abbey, at which King Edward, was represented and many distinguished men were present, the remains of Sir Henry M. Stanley were burled in the churchyard of the old Surrey village of Pirbrlgbt A funeral pyre is to be built of oldfashioned square pianos st Atlantic City. N. J„ and fired during the annual convention of the National Association of Plano Manufacturers. Because Lord Salisbury once called the Irish "Hottentots" Redmond opposed a proposed monument to the late British Statesman.