Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 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, Nov. 17. Colonel Henry Watterson and family have sailed from New York for Liverpool. Mrs. Potter Palmer and the Duke and Duchess of Manchester have arrived at New Y’ork from Europe. President Roosevelt sent a note of thanks to Julia Oppenbeim, 11 years qjd, a Chicago girl who congratulated him upon his election. Commander Booth-Tucker, who for the last eight and a half years has been at the head of the Salvation Army In this country, has sailed for England. The Panaman consulate at New York has received a dispatch from President Manuel Amador saying: “Deny reports of disorder or plot.” It is proposed to keep the World's fair open as long as the weather is good. Friday, Nov. 18. Frank J. Hecker, of Detroit, has resigned as a member of the Panama canal commission. Can’t stand the climate. Otto Young, of Chicago, has given SIOO,OOO for the erection of the McCormick Memorial Institute for Infectious Diseases. Henry Gassaway Davis was 81 years old Wednesday. William Perkins, better known as “Mocassin Bill,” is dead on a ranch near Montrose, Colo., aged 80 years. He was a famous bear hunter. The first snow storm of the season has Just occurred at Butte, Mont. The call for the annual meeting of the National League and American Association of Base Ball clubs names New Y’ork as the place and Dec. 13 as the date.

Saturday, Nov. 19. The government of the Netherlands has formally advised Secretary Hay that it gladly accepts the suggestion that the peace conference be reconvened at The Hague. The police of Chicago are looking for a man who cut out the tongue of a horse because the animal was a kicker. Twenty-one persons were rescued from the freight steamer Mohawk, ot the Central Vermont railroad’s fleet, which burned to the water’s edge in Ixmg Island sound. The boat was worth $250,000, besides her cargo. Work upon the monastery near Luc: ca. Italy, that is to become the headquarters of the Carthusian Brotherhood, expelled from Grenoble. France, is nearly completed. A Japanese syndicate is trying to buy several Whatcom county (Neb.) shingle mills. Monday, Nov. 91. There were 552.019 admissions to the St. Louis World’s fair last week. Bishop Chatard, of Indianapolis, has arrived at Borne and has been received by the pope. President Roosevelt is booked to pay a visit to Texas next spring. Lord Minto has closed his six years' term as governor general of Canada and sailed for England. Landon Armstrong, a farmer, who had lived alone near Ashland, RL, since the death of his wife, twenty years ago, was found dead in bed and partly eaten by rats. Secretary Morton, who was slightly indisposed at the dinner of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers in New York, is all right again. The official returns from West Virginia show a plurality for Roosevelt of 32,002. _i Tuuuday, Nov. 99. Prince Freiderlch Carl and Prince Johann Heinrich Zu Hohenlohe-Gef-ringer of Germany, who have been visiting the World’s fair, have left there for New York. Cardinal Gibbons has made public a letter addressed to clergymen appealink forifurtber financial aid for the Roman Catholic university. The republic of Cuba has rented quarters for Its legation in Berlin. In a fifteen-round match for SI,OOO at London “Young” Peter Jackson beat Charley Allum, of London, in the sixth round.

The liner Kroonland. reported by somebody to have gone down at sea with 1,400 people, has arrived at New York all right. Wednesday, Nov. 23. The liner Sicilian Prince, which has been stuck in the mud off Long Island, has been floated off aud is uninjured. The Detroit (Mich.) presbytery has unanimously voted in favor of the proposed union of the Presbyterian and Cumberland Presbyterian churches. There are 619 women attending the Berlin university, being the record number. The carters’ strike has - ended at Havre, France, the men yielding. The strike of dockers continues without incident. The Spanish bark Tafalla and crew of fifteen wqfit down with all bands within a short distance of the British steamer Aros Castle, 200 miles east of the Bermudas. George Truesdell of Washington declined to act as trustee for the estate of Thomas E. Waggamen because of the mlxed-up condition of Waggamans’ affairs.