Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 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 80. Dr. Edward lturton Livingston, of the University of Chicago, lias won a 9100 prize offered liy the Boston Society of Natural History for a scientific treatise. Sentaor Quay is reported by his physician at Beaver, Pa., as having an excellent chance of recovery. In an address to the Yale students Senator Ohauncey M. Depew warned them against public office. William J. Sagehorn, a Chicago Democratic politician and newspaper man. h<is been missing since May 13. Rear Admiral Cooper, commander-in-chief of Hie Asiatic squadron, has requested that he be placed on the retired list in the early fall. Friday, May 87. The Picket won the Brooklyn Handicap, Irish Lad second. Picket is the horse who won lust year’s American Derby at Chicago. The second international dairy congress will he held at Paris in October, 1905. The postoffice department has announced that navigation on the Yukon river in Alaska is reopened. Consul General McWade, nt Canton, advises the state department that the plague is spreading. Wilhelm von Siemens, of the Sie-mens-Halske company, is dead at Berlin. Saturday, May 88. The Episcopal diocesan convention of Missouri voted by a large majority against the use of the revised version of the Bible in the prescribed service of the churelv Cardinal Satolli has sailed from Naples for the United States. Yale university is given $250,000 for library purposes by the will of William It. Itoss, the New York lawyer, who died in January. Frank Niezorawski, commissioner of public works, was convicted at Milwaukee of accepting a bribe of SBOO to favor certain plans for a school building. In a tornado at Pleasant Grove, Kan., David Fellingham was killed and his wife'badly injured. Methodists in general conference at Los Angeles refused by a vote of 441 to 188 to modify the clause governing dancing, card playing and theatergoing- v Laurence M’Donald, formerly prominent in Democratic politics, iS dead at Seward, 111. Monday, May 30. The last witness in the Missouri litigation against the state of Illinois to enjoin the sanitary district trustees from letting the waters of laike Michigan into the Mississippi river has been heard. Santos-Dumont, the aeronaut, will sail for New York on the North German Lloyd steamer Kaiser Wilhelm 11, leaving Cherbourg June 11. The project for the establishment of the Panama coinage on a gold basis lias been defeated in the legislature. Three men Mike Pescolieg, John Malz and Pete I’osorch—were killed in uu explosion in a stone quarry eleven miles south of Maysville: Mo. Sen Joe Katayama, said to be the foremost teacher of socialism in Japan, is among the recent additions to the World’s fair Japanese colony.’** The annual convention of the National Federation of Women’s Musical clubs is to 1h» held at St. Louis from May 30 to June 4. George J. Gould, railroad magnate and millionaire, is said to bo about to enter the race for congress as a candidate in the Lakewood, N. J., district. Tuesday, May 31. The Socialists of Ohio have nominated A. G. Swing, of Cincinnati, for secretary of state. Joseph R. Wyckoff, of Havana, has returned there from the United States, having organized a company, he says, to raise the wreck of the battlehip Maine. Patients in their cots nt the Samaritan hospital at Philadelphia listened by telephone to a sermon in the Grace Baptist temple, more than a mile away. Painters at New York struck because they did not approve the taste exhibited in the color scheme of a house. The late Senator Quay’s will disposes of $1,200,000 in value. Wednesday, J unt 1. The board of lady managers of the St. Louis fair entertained Miss Roosevelt at luncheon in the Woman’s building. The United States consul at Aden has cabled the state department that the' plague which has prevailed at that port is over. Charles M. Schwab, ex-president of the UniUtl States Steel Corporation, has sailed for Europe again. Governor Odell, of New York, has arrived at Paris for a week’s visit. Oxford university has decided to confer the degree of doctor of letters on William Dean Howells. The family physician of Mayor McLane, of Baltimore, and many of bis friends, refuse to believe that he committed suicide. The convention of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers has elected M. Cadie, of Sedalia, Mo., first assistant grand chief engineer.