Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1904 — NEWS BRIEFLY STATED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS BRIEFLY STATED.

Matters of General Interest Taken from the Wires. Some of the Happening* of the Past Week Given in Condensed Paragraphs for Busy People. Wednesday, Jana *9. 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 Sheriff Harry Harris, of St. Croix county, Wis., has not been captured. Tbe 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 from 10 to 15 per cent Thursday, Jons SO. Four Chinese called at the mayor’s office at New York and left a gift of |657 for the Slocum fund. Albert C. Mink, state agent at Chicago of the Queen Insurance company, has been missing since June 13. Over 500 homes, business bouses, and school houses near Pittsburg, on the Panhandle railroad, were inundated in from two to ten feet of water by a deluge of rain. Secretary of the Navy William H. Moody has been given the honorary degree of doctor of law 9 by Amherst college. Secretary Cortelyou has ordered the immediate and vigorous re-lnspection of every passenger-carrying steamer In New York harbor. Friday, July 1. Rev. John Alexander Dowie, the Zion City, 111., faith healer, was welcomed by the whole town when he returned home from a trip around the world. In three hours the Republican state convention of Vermont nominated a state ticket and adjourned. George Frederick Watts, the painter, a member of the royal academy, Is dying at London of bronchitis. He is 87 years old. Mrs. Grover Cleveland and her children have arrived at their new summer home at North Sandwich, N. H. The thirty-first Chautauqua has opened at its old home under favorable circumstances. Officials at Paris interested In the search for F. Kent Loomis say they have practically abandoned hope that he will be found alive. The annual Yale-Harvard eightoared boat race—the “ ’varsity” race—was postponed yesterday because of wind. Saturday, J uly 2. Postmaster General Payne and Takahira, the Japanese minister, have signed a parcels post agreement between the United States and Japan. David B. Hill is credited In Washington with a desire for the permanent chairmanship of the Democratic convention at St. Louis. Great Britain has successfully brought pressure to bear on the porte for the relief of the persecuted Armenians. A mischievous boy, at New York, set fire to the 110,000 automobile of H. C. Phipps, of Pittsburg, .who was ou bis way abroad with the machine. Dr. Otto Gagzou. commissioner of agriculture and forestry of Germany, visited Minneapolis and inspected our flour mills.

Hoadijr, July 4. During the fiscal year ended June 30 $4,040,977.978 passed in and out of the sub-treasury at New York. There will be no base ball played in Brooklyn tomorrow. So orders the the police commissioner It is announced at Chester. m.Ttlia? under advice of the attorney general the prison will continue the manufacture of brick under the old law. President Francis of the St Louis exposition says that no action will be taken in the matter of the charges against Santos-Dumont without positive proof. National Chairman James K. Jones said positively that W. J. Bryah will not bolt the St. Louis convention if Parker is nominated. William R. Hearst in an interview at Waabington, reiterated bis purpose to support the nominee of the St Louis convention. The Socialist party of North Dakota nominated a full state ticket Taeaday, J aly 5. Edward Beaupre, aged 23 years, said to be the tallest and best proportioned man in the world, is dead at the World’s fair, of hemorrhage. There ia a movement on foot at the Populist convention at Springfield, 111., to make Thomas E. Watson, of Georgia, the presidential nominee. President Gompers has approved of the fight for the “closed shop” being waged by the United Garment Workers. The Havana government boa discharged forty sweepers of the street cleaning force and fifteen cartmen for lack of funds. It has jnst been learned that Mrs. Mabel Baer (nee McKinley) is at her New York home suffering from a fracture of the right leg just above the knee.