Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1904 — NEWS BRIEFLY STATED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS BRIEFLY STATED.

Matters of Gonaral Interest Taken from the Wires. Some of the Happenings of the Past Week Given in Condensed Paragraphs fbr Busy People. Thursday, Aug. 11. Kaiser Wilhelm has directed the German legation at Tokio to express his sympathy at the death of General Yamaguchi. The steamer Sierra has sailed from Sydney, N. S. W., for San Francisco with $1,750,000 in gold on board. The biennial convention of the Women’s Catholic Order of Foresters is in session at Minneapolis. Flood washed out ten miles of the Rock Island railroad track near Tucumcari, N. M. Chief of Police O’Neill, of Chicago, has sent out an order that music and vaudeville iu saloons must cease at 11:30 o’clock at night. Democrats and Populists of the Fourth Nebraska district have fused and nominated Charles Gilbert, of York, for congress. Friday, Aug. 18. In the Fifth congressional district Of Maryland ex-Govemor Jackson was nominated by the Democrats. His brother, William H. Jackson, is the Republican nominee. The New York Republican state convention to select candidates for the •tate ticket will be held at Saratoga, Sept. 14. The flags at St. Louis were at half mast during the interment of the late ex-Senator Vest in that city. It is reported at Paris that Mrs. Maybrick has left Rouen for the United States. The next convention of the International Typographical union will be held at Toronto, Canada. All the suspects arrested for the train robbery near Han ey, 111., Aug. 1, have been released. Saturday, Aug. 13. Setiator Scott, of the Republican executive committee, who has been ill at New York for a few days is much better. Admiral Schley has created a stir in naval circles with an article in which he asserts that he was exclusively in command at the batlte of Santiago. Beginning next Monday, the twentytwo mines of the Lehigh Valley Coal company will suspend operations fora week. The Ohio board of pardons has refused to recommend a commutation to Alfred Knapp, the Hamilton (O.) wife murderer, sentenced to be killed Aug. 19. A rain torrent In the hills east of Leadville, Colo., caused several thousand dollars’ damage there. Monday, Aug. 13. Miss Edna May. the actress, has arrived at New York from England. The Catholic Knights of America, in session at St. Louis, have adjourned to meet at Asheville, N. C., in 1905. Rev. Dr. Samuel I. Upmau, president of the Drew Theological serniuary, in Madison, N. J., is thought to be fatally ill at his summer home in Cottage City, Mass. Mrs. Snell-Coffln-McCrea-Cof-fin-Green-Walker-Coffln-Layman, etc., has sued for another divorce. The Sycamore, 111., Chautauqua has opened for an eleven days’ session. Isaac Hursell, wanted in Seattle, Wash., charged with attempted wife murder, escaped from a fast moving train in North Dakota. Delegates to the Catholic Total Abstinence union national convention, having completed their business meetings in St Louis, spent the day sightseeing at the exposition. Tuesday, Aug. 16. President Harper, of the University of Chicago, was elected a member of the Chicago Press club. No serious damage has been done to Kansas crops by the extreme hot weather of the last few days. Serious fires have broken out In the ancient forest of Fontainebleau, in France. After periods of irregularity two cotton mills in the Biackstone valley, Rhode Island, have started up on full time. Rev. Dr. A. B. Simpson, at the Christian and Missionary alliance at Old Orchard, Me., secured a missionary offering of $45,214, of $3,000 more than last year. Ground was broken at Stanford University for what is to be the largest collage library in the country. Wednesday, Aug. 17. Luis Enrique Bonilla has been appointed consul general of the republic of Colombia at New York. Postoflice officials at Washington do not approve the plan of Postmaster McKay, of Des Moines, to Introduce women mail carriers. Peetr McNamee, who won a beauty contest on an excursion boat out of Chicago, was kissed by 200 women. King Edward and Kaiser Francis oJseph are hobnobbing at Marienbad. Maher, the United Statesan Jockey, rode four winners, finishing third on another out of six races at the Stockton (England) summer meeting. Joseph Jefferson, who has been slightly indisposed at Buzzards Bay, Mass., through an attack of indigestion, Is very much improved. The Democratic state committee of New Hampshire has called tbe state convention to be beld at Concord, Sept 7.