Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1904 — NEWS BRIEFLY STATED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS BRIEFLY STATED.

Matters of Central Interest Taken from the Wires. Borne of the Happenings of the Past Week Given In Condensed Paragraphs for Busy People. Thursday, Ang. 18. Judge Brown, of Chicago, decided that a wife who loses money through speculation of her husband cannot recover It. Ethel Barry, daughter of a wellknown business man of Pennsylvania who has been spending the summer at Oceanport, N. J., has eloped with a motorman. Charles W. Wells, a mail carrier, was arrested on a charge of robbing tha mails. He stole the money to bet on the races. The body of Kit Jacobs, the 15-year-old boy who was drowned in the Wisconsin river near Bridgeport Sunday afternoon, has not yet been recovered. Judge Mullins of the Denver district court, of his own motion, has given Mrs. Genevieve Phipps ten days to plead in the divorce suit of her husband, Lawrence Phipps, the Pittsburg millionaire. Friday, Aug. 19. Miss Pauline Morton, daughter of Secretary Morton, christened the new steel training ship Cumberland, which was launched at the Charlestown navy yard. A baby boy about three days old was found by Adolph Brayman at the entrance of his home, at Chicago. Alexander Agassiz, the celebrated scientist of Cambridge, Mass.,has been elected president of the International Zoological Congress in session at Berne, Switzerland. The Democratic congressional convention of the Fourth Missouri district has taken 907 unfruitful balolts. The body of an unknown man, evidently murdered, was found alongside the Northern Pacific tracks at St Cloud, Minn. Saturday, Aug. 20. William H. Cowles, a deaf mute, Is a candidate for theßepublican nomination for mayor of Minneapolis. The supreme lodge, Knights of Pythias, bas decided to hold its next biennial encampment in New Orleans. Senator Hoar’s condition shows a slight improvement, but the doctors give no hope for his recovery. Mrs. Lydia A. Monroe, of Riverside, Cal., bas been chosen supreme chief of the Rathbone Sisters. The annual reunion of the Illinois association of ex-prisoners of war will be held in Decatur Sept 12. A severe hailstorm passed over the towns of Pelican, Maplewood and Lidaya. Minn. Thomas E. Watson has been notified of his nomination for president by the Populists. Monday, Aug. 22. There is a “thinking horse” in Berlin which can do sums In arithmetic. Sir Thomas Lipton is negotiating for a new cup hunter to be called the Shamrock IV. President Roosevelt and party have arrived at Oyster Bay after being detained four hours on the way by a storm. His reception at Lome was hearty. G. C. Young, who traveled for a china company of Peoria, 111., was found dead in the Golden hotel at Dallas, Tex. Premier Laurier, of Canada, soon will make a tour of the principal cities of the northwest from St. Paul to Seattle, including Butte. Jack Glennister, the champion swimmer of the world, married in St. Louis a girl he met for the first time five days before. The international headquarters .of the Bricklayers’ and Masons’ union have been opened at Indianapolis. Tuesday, Aug. SS. William Blubart. celebrating the birth of, a child, was killed by a train at Chicago. Joseph E. Haven, of Illinois, has been appointed United States commercial agent at St. Christopher, West Indies. Senator Hoar is alive yet, but grows continually weaker. Miss Susan B. Anthony has arrived at New York from London. Mrs. Maybriek has arrived at New York. The National Association of FirstClass Postmasters is holding a convention at Niagara Falls, N. Y. President Roosevelt Is putting in his spare time at Oyster Bay riding horseback and picnicing “en famille.” Jeffries and Munroe are now putting on the finishing touches for their fight next Friday nigbt. Wednesday, Aug. 14, Floods in Arizona Territory bare washed out miles of railway track and trains are beld up in all directions. The German Veterans Association of North America, in convention at St Louis, has elected Julius Franz, of Dallas, Tex., president St Paul is rapidly recovering from the effects of the recent storm. A boarding home for aged members of the Friends society will he erected at Waynesvllle, 0., by the Indiana yearly meeting of Friends. Milwaukee Day will be celebrated at the St Louis exposition on Oct 17. The tenth annual session of the Winona Bible conference opened at Winona Lake, near Warsaw, Ind., * The Utah socialists nominated a full State ticket, headed by Joseph A. Kauffman for governor. L