Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1904 — NEWS BRIEFLY STATED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS BRIEFLY STATED.

Matters of General Interest "Taken from the Wires.

Some of the Happenings of the Past Week Given in Condensed Paragraphs for Busy People.

Thursday. Sept. 15, Leah Minkus, a Chicago woman, has brought suit for $ 10,000 against a dentist whom charges with tilling the wrong tooth. Senator Hoar’s condition does not improve. lie so vveak that he cannot rally from his long illness. A story told by one E. Lee Ilawes, that the Mexican police had "tipped off" a plot to assassinate President Roosevelt, is declared » fake by tLe Mexican police. The Inter-Parliamentary Union, in session at St. Louis, has adjourned sine die, having concluded its business. Frosts have been quite genera! in the west and northwest, but the crop damage is reported slight. ( , Robert J. McGeehan, of Depore, was nominated for congress by the Ninth Wisconsin district Democratic convention. Friday, Sept. 10, The next meeting 'place, in 100*1, of the General Federation of Women's clubs will be St. Paul. Street cars at Lincoln. Neb., are held down to seven miles an hour, and most of the citizens prefer to walk. The recent great cotton corner in the United States apparently has caused a permanent fright in Europe, which bids fair to lose the United States their market in that part of the worid. The great council of the United States Improved Order of Red Men, in session at St. Joseph, Mo., has adjourned. The Japanese government has confirmed John McLeavy l’rown as director of Korean customs. James P. Winchester, of Dover, Del., bank president and reputed millionaire, has been elected chairman of the Delaware Democratic state committee. Saturday, Sept. 17. Henry R. Metcalf, of Pawtucket, has been nominated for governor by the Rhode Island Prohibitionists. Clad in the uniform of the United States navy, Izadore Turk, 18 years old, found his clothing a bar to employment in Chicago. The Paris Matin is organizing a motor boat race from Toulon to Algiers. A contract for steamship service between Vancouver, 1!. and Mexico has been awarded to Andrew Weir & Co., of Glasgow, by the Canadian government. The Gardner-Elymt fight at 1 leaver was a draw at the end of tert rounds. The American Bankers' association convention at New York has adjourned to meet at Washington next year. The annual convention of the grand aerie of the Eagles, has adjourned at Baltimore to meet in Denver next year. Monday, Sept. 10.

The French line steamship La Lorraine, which lias arrived at New York, from Havre, brought ex-Governor Levi P. Morton and his family. Two suitors for the hand of a New York widow will play a game of pinochle to decide who shall marry her. Thomas E. Watson, in a speech in Kentucky, declares the old parties stand together on present issues. Yale since its foundation has graduated 22,035 students, of whom 12,-74-1 are living. It is alleged that Andrew Carnegie offered to supply millions to secure the secession of Canada from the British empire. After trying to rob a woman at Chicago John Dougherty sought a night’s lodging at a police station, but was identified and arrested There are 130 typhoid patients iu the Winnipeg, Man., general hospital. Tueadajr, Sept. 20. Five hundred delegates of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners are in biennial convention at Milwaukee. A young woman member of St. James’ Methodist church, Chicago, was baptized by immersion. John Alexander Dowie has been proclaimed, by himself, first apostle of the Christian Catholic church in Zion. His followers have assented. The first national encampment of the United States Spanish War Veterans has commenced at the World’s fair grounds. The municipal council of Hie Hague has rejected the measure providing for utilizing part of The Hague woods for the Carnegie palace of peace. tTedatidir, Sept, 21. Professor Eli Metchnikoff, of the Pasteur institute, declares the nearest approach to the elixir of life is sour milk. Premier Balfour's private income is $350,000 a year. Farmers oh Louisiana juries will not convict negro criminals because they need their labor on their plantations. The Republicans of New Hampshire nominated John H. Me La he, of Milford, for governor. ’ A harmless crank who had a “message” for President Roosevelt was arrested at Oyster Pay and will have his mentality inquired into. The third triennial convention of United States weather bureau officials is in session at Peoria, 111., Professor Willis L. Moore, chief of the bureau, presiding. >