Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1904 — NEWS BRIEFLY STATED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS BRIEFLY STATED.

Matter* of General Interest Taken from the Wires. Some of the Happenings of the Past ' Week Given In Condensed Paragraphs for Busy People. f , Thursday, Dee. 8. South Dakota’s plurality for Theodore Roosevelt was 50,081. A Paris doctor uses the gold cure for pneumonia and says it is a success. Drought is so stevere in parts of Pennsylvania and New York that tho churches are praying for rain. One hundred and forty-five Negritos, Bagobos, Samnl Moros and Lanao Moros, that were in the Philippine reservation at the World’s fair, have left St Louis for home. The Mexican Astronomical society has awarded its chief prize, a gold medal, to Professor William Hickering, of Harvard university. “Young Peter” Jackson, tbe pugilist, has arrived at New York from Great Britain. • The condition of General Ricdottl Garibaldi, who Is very ill at Rome, is improved, and his physicians now have hopes 6f his recovery.

Friday, Dee. 9. John Duncan Quackenbos, M. D„ scientific hypnotist, of New York, makes a plea for a $1,000,000 Institute of Hypnotism. Two thousand waiters met at labor headquarters In Paris and adopted a resolution to abolish tips and demand higher wages.

Japan has conditionally accepted the United States’ invitation to participate in a second peace conference. To connect tbe canal zone on the isthmus of Panama with the United States by cable is the purpose of a bill Introduced In the bouse.

Reduced postal rates between Mexico and Canada, agreed on by both governments, will probably go into euect soon. Saturday, Dae. 10. In the municipal court of Danville, Va., Harry Wooding, the mayor, was fined for contempt because he wore a pair of creaking shoes in court. The annual Intercollegiate debate between Yale and Princeton was won by Yale on a unanimous decision of the judges, Yale affirming that the United States should hold no territory not intended for states. President Diaz has reapjmlnted the entire cabinet. Earl Grey, Canada’s new governor general, and his countess, have arrived at Halifax. Harvey Parker, the Brocton, Mass., wrestler, defeated Eugene Tremblay, the Canadian champion, at Lowell, Mass. Within the next few days Seattle, Wash., will be connected with Port Townsend. Fort Casey, French Harbor and Victoria, B. C., by wireless telegraph. Monday, Doe. 19. Robert Burns’ family Bible containing interesting family entries, was sold at auction at London for $6,250. The purchaser was a London dealer. The newly seeded area of winter wheat in the United States Is 31,155,000 acres, a decrease of 1.6 per cent (Tom the area in 1903.

The Societe d’Encouragement a l’Art at a l’lndustrie of Paris has bestowed a gold medal on Henry Gray, of New York, for metallurgical researches. Nine and a half inches of snow fell at Baltimore in twenty hours. The Brazilian senate has passed to a final reading the bill authorizing the government to build twenty-eight war vessels. Navigation through the St Lawrencee canal has been closed. Tuaaday, Dec. 13. The report that Russia has sent a new expedition to Southern Persia is dented at St. Petersburg. All the hotel and restaurant rooks and waiters and other employes at Buenos Ayres have struck. Restoration of the post canteen Is nrged by the chief surgeon of the department of the lakes. Marie Jeanne Caroff. of Bretagne, 65 years old, was found at New York on the Atlantic liner La Lorraine, having gone aboard at Havre as a stowaway. Sarah Peterson, an aged patient in the Central hospital for the Insane at Indianapolis, was killed in a row among the patients at the supper table. There are 1,638,321 more males than females in the United States, so a census bulletin says. WadaMday, Dec. 14. Hairy O. Pulliam has been unanimously re-elected president, secretary and treasurer of the National League of Professional Base Ball Clubs. A foot and a half of snow has fallen at Newport, R. 1., generally suspending business. Justice Caverly fined seven parents at Chicago for indifference as to whether or not their children attended school.

Lyman J. Gage, ex-eecretary of the treasury, ill at New York, is reported somewhat improved. -Shortage of water is seriously affecting many of the iron and steel mills of the Shenamgo valley In Pennsylvania, and a general shutdown may result The council manic elections on the Isthmus of Panama will take place on Sunday, Dec. 18. Dr. Carter, dean of the Nassau, N. Y., presbytery, has been cleared of the charges of disloyalty after an investigation.