Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1904 — NEWS BRIEFLY STATED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS BRIEFLY STATED.

Matters of Genera! Interest Taken from the Wires. Some of the Happenings of the Past Week Given in Condensed Paragraphs for Busy People. Thursday, Nov. 24. Evidences of quieter conditions at Port-au-Prince have come to the state department at Washington. The Cmiard liner Ivernia. from Liverpool to Boston, brought 2.202 passengers, of whom 2,092 came in the steerage. The southern conference of Unitarians has resolved that it desires to cooperate in legitimate methods to solve the divorce problem. A hurricane has devastated the northern shores of Honduras. Entire villages have been destroyed, and many coast Indians killed. The members of the diplomatic corps were received by Mrs. Roosevelt in the Blue Room of the White House. The National Grange, in session at Portland. Ore., is discussing life insurance as a department of the order. Friday, Nov. 25. Mrs. Annie Kellogg, widow of A. N. Kellogg, of Chicago, founder of the newspaper company hearing his name, has been married to Alfred G. Dale, of New York. Standard Oil men, it is said, will force Thomas W. Lawson to prove his charges or retract, A New Jersey woman asks divorce from her husband because his fits of laughter wrecked her nerves. Washington has advices that there is an epidemic of anarchy throughout Macedonia. A monument to the memory of President William McKinley was unveiled at the main entrance of Golden Gate park, San Francisco. The St. Petersburg Bourse Gazette revives the question of a new' commercial treaty with the United States. Saturday, Nov. 26. Lester Hoffmann, the 18-year-old son of W. W. Hoffmann, train master for the Missouri, Kansas and Texas railway at St. Louis, while hunting near Sedalla, accidentally shot off his right foot. Chicago defeated Wisconsin at football by a score of 18 to 11. luck being with the victors and the vanquished team putting up a plucky fight. Ten thousand persons witnessed the struggle. Five hundred school children prevented the escape of an artist, who shet bis sweetheart in Mount Vernon, N. Y. " The Nashville Chamber of Commerce has invited President Roosevelt to visit Nashville when he goes south. W. W. Cargill, of LaCrosse, Wis., has made the Methodist church at Janesville, Wis., a gift of SIO,OOO in memory of his father. Monday, Nov. 18. Rev. D. C. Buckles, of Addystone, a suburb of Cincinnati, was found dead as the result of an attempt to go without food for forty days as a religious duty, as he believed. The Indians in the five reservations near San Diego, Cal., are starving. There is a water famine in the Turtle Creek valley, near Pittsburg. Hungarian societies throughout the United States have arranged to give entertainments Feb. 21 to raise money for a monument to George Washington at Budapest. Yale university has obtaine for its forest school all the forestry exhibits at the St. Louis exposition of Cuba and HaytL Robert Joseph Morgan, the colored United Statesan Greek bishop, has been decorated by the Russian church. Tuesday, Nov. 29. Captain A. Ross has been selected as commandant of the lake naval training station to be established. For the first time in history .Kentucky is “suffering” from the lack of water. The churches are praying for rain.