Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1904 — NEWS BRIEFLY STATED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS BRIEFLY STATED.

Matters of Gsneral Interest Taken from the Wires. Some of tbe Happenings of the Past Week Given in Condensed Paragraphs fbr Busy People. Thunder, July 98. Five United Btatesans recently arrived at Cronstadt from St. Petersburg are acting as Instructors in the trials of submarine boats. The members ot the Michigan Bankers’ association, 160 strong, are at Toronto. Washington’s elm, the famous tree which has stood at Morristown, N. Y., longer than a century and three-quar* ters, has been cut down. Justice Scott, of New York, has signed the formal decree of divorce dissolving the marriage of Lillian Nordica, the singer, and Zoltan Doeme. Rear Admiral Philip H. Cooper, commander-in-chief of the Asiatic station, will be retired Aug. 4. The value of the estate of the late William 0. Whitney is estimated at $21,334,101. After taking 450 ballots, the Fourth Missouri district Democratic congressional convention adjourned without making a nomination. Fridsy, July 99. Secretary Morton has resumed his official duties at the navy department B. Mastandrea, keeper of a junkshop, at Chicago, is accused by Robert Sorenson and John Stuckmeyer, each 16 years old, of teaching them to steal. J. D. Beebe, a Chicagoan, has just finished a perilous trip from Chicago to Houghton, Mich., traveling 1,400 miles In a twenty-foot ordinary gasoline launch. Military honors were accorded Rear Admiral Taylor, who was buried at Washington. The Massachusetts Republican and Democratic state conventions will be held at Boston on the same day, Oct. 7.

Saturday, July 30. In a letter to Dr. Andrew S. Draper Sir Thomas Lipton says he has not given up hope of lifting the America cup. William R. Allman stood at a Chicago street comer tearing greenbacks into hits aud tossing the pieces among a crowd of children. Secretary' of War Taft and a number of generals will attend the observation of Philippine Day at the World’s fair on Aug. 13. Ex-Senator Vest, ill at Sweet Springs, Mo., passed a restless night and is considered worse. William Preston Harrison, brother of Mayor Harrison of Chicago, has been named as a co-respondent in a counter suit for divorce brought by Andrew P. Carter in New York. Monday, August 1. Mrs. Sidney C. Ix>ve, a Chicago woman, was granted a divorce and $50,000 alimony on the ground ot extreme and repeated cruelty. Mrs. N. It. Walmsley, wife of a leading Eau Claire (Wis.) lawyer, has been appointed teacher of Greek at Dowie’s Zion City college. During the filing of the claims of those who drew lucky numbers in the drawing for the Rosebud reservation lands Bonesteel, S. D., will be under military law. The secretaries of states and territories will meet at St. Louis Sept. 28 next. The Faciflc Mail Steamship company has notified shippers that the company will not receive freight for Yokohama, Japan, at present. The Cologne Gazette announces thi formation of an international looking glass syndicate.

Tuesday, An(. 9. It is reported that a Norwegian whaler has found north of Spitzbergen a letter from Professor Andree, dated 1898. "I my estimation we are going to have u very satisfactory crop year,” says the secretary of agriculture. An electrical storm did great damage at New York, the lightning striking many buildings. Rain Hooded many cellars. The battleship Ohio has had her trial trip off Santa Barbara, Cal., and is up to speed requirements. George Hamilton, a student of Earlham college, Richmond. Ind.. has been awarded the Rhodes scholarship for Indiana. A commission of naval engineers will leave Mexico City for Genoa, where they will receive the gunboats Bravo and Morelos, constructed in shipyards there. Wednesday, Aug:, 3. President Harper, of the University of Chicago, has completed a new translation of the book of Amos, from the original Hebrew. Consuelo, duchess of Marlborough, was thrown from her horse while riding in Blenheim park, and escaped with a sprained ankle. Vice President-Elect Corral, of Mexico, has been elected president of Mexico’s Young Men’s Christian association. The latest man mentioned for treasurer of the Democratic national committee is George Foster Peabody, of Brooklyn. The national convention of stationary engineers is in annual session at Richmond, Va. There is no perceptible change reported in the condition of ex-Senator George G. Test, who is slowly dying at Sweet Springs, Mo.