Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1904 — NEWS BRIEFLY STATED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS BRIEFLY STATED.

Matters of General Interest Taken from the Wires. Some of (h, Happenings of the Hast Week Given In Condensed Paragraphs for Busy People, Thursday, Jane 83. The sixteenth annual meeting of the Sons of Temperance of North America is in session at Philadelphia. The first through train for Victoria Falls over the Cape-to-Cairo railroad, left Cape Town amidst enthusiastic demonstrations. The governors of the New York stock exchange have decided to close the exchange on July 2, the Saturday before the 4th of July. The Hearst forces at Duluth captured the Minnesota Democratic state delegation. The steamer Oregon has reached Seattle from the Nome gold fields bringing four passengers and more than (400,000 in bullion. The British steamer La Porte, Captain Turner, recently foundered near Port Nolloth, Cape Colony. She was bound for Port Arthur with coal and intended to run the blockade. Friday, Jane 84. Samuel M. Clemens (Mark Twain) will spend the summer at Four Brooks farm. Richard Watson Gilder’s country place, at Tyrlngham, Mass. Degrees were given 10 graduates at the seventy-first commencement of Oberlin college, Oberlln, O. The Montana supreme court has decided tliat the fair trial bill Is constitutional, which will result in taking all the Heinze-Amalgamated litigation away from the alleged biased courts at Butte. Rev. Thomas B. Donovan of Kentucky ha 8 been elected superior of the Josephite order in the United States, to succeed Very Rev. J. R. Slattery, resigned. Saturday, J one 85. Edward F. McCarthy, a window cleaner, fell four stories from a window, in Chicago, miraculously escaping injury. Representative Hitt, of Illinois, ill at Washington, is able to sit up. The estate of Charles Netcher, the Chicago merchant, recently deceased, is valued at (2,000,000. The widow of Marcus A. Hanna has wired congratulations to President Roosevelt. Seth Low, ex-mayor of New York, is a guest of the president at the White House. The latest news from Montana reports a snow storm at Butte. Miss Faith Moore pays (15,000 a year for a New York apartment of fifteen rooms and five bathrooms. Monday, June 87. Clara Ward, who was once married to Prince Chimayand afterward eloped with a gypsy violinist, has run away with a book agent. H. M. Parker, Since 1892 great commander of the Ohio Maccabees, is dead at Elyria, 0., of appendictis. The Kansas wheat harvest will be delayed many days on account of last week’s heavy rains. One of the black cats kept in the House of Hoo-1100, at the St. Louis fair has shown up alive aud the 1100Hoos will immediately rebuild their burned building. Grover Cleveland, In an interview printed by the Philadelphia Ledger, says he is out of politics and will not be nominated at St. Louis. Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) will sail from Naples for New York June 28. The New York Daily News, now recognized as the organ of Tammany Hall, prints a three-column article advocating Mayor George B. McClellan as the Democratic nominee ror president Tuesday, June 87. The National Association of Elocutionists has begun its tlilrteuth annual session at New York. The New York Produce exchange will be closed Saturday, July 2. Prince Alexandre Kadzilwili of Austria. who is visiting the United States, has arrived at Washington. Cardinal Satolli, special representative of the pope to the World's fair, has arrived at St. Louis. The battleship Wisconsin has arrived at Shanghai from Cavite. Yale college has bestowed the honorary degree of master of laws, magna cum laude, on Yu Cbuan Chang, of Kuangtung, China. The first annual meeting of the society of chemical industry ever held in the United States will convene in New York, on Sept. 8. Wednesday, Jane 89. Ex-Senator Vest positively declines to have his name considered as a Missouri delegate-at-large to St Louis. In a postal card ballot members of the Chicago Bar association have declared against a reduction of court vacations. Lon Smith, the murderer of SherifT Harry Harris, of St. Croix county, Wis., has not been captured. The British police are now at work on the theory that Kent J. Loomis was murdered. The meeting of Jewish rabbis at Louisville has postponed the Sunday vs. Sabbath question until the next annual conference. .. The salaries of all government employes in Panama have been reduced f rom 10 to 15 per cent.