Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 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, Doc. IS. The Massachusetts -state grange adopted a resolution calling upon members of congress to prevent the repeal of the oleomargarine law. The lower house of the Hungarian parliament opened amid calm after the wrecking of the previous day. Temperatures ranging from 10 to 25 degrees below zero are reported from various points in New York. 4 A sharp earthquake shock was felt at San Francisco. No damage was done. Navigation of the Mississippi river between Memphis and St. Louis bas been suspended owing to the ice above Cairo. The governors of the New York stock exchange have voted to close the exchange from Dec. 24 to Dec. 27. Vrlduy, Dec 16. Luther Burbank, of Sau Francisco, has developed an “everlasting real flower” that will not lose its fragrance or fade. The state of Sinaloa, in northwestern Mexico, bordering on the gulf of California, is being ravaged by famine and fever. The Ohio rfver has closed above Cincinnati, and navigation is shut off. Roosevelt’s plurality in the state of New York was 175,552, as shown by the official returns the provincial legislature resulted in another sweeping victory for the Liberals. A severe snow and wind storm is reported over western lowa and the greatet port of Nebraska. Saturday, Dee. 17. Helen Backus, 10 years old, a Chicago girl, dressed in boy’s clothing and ran away from home. William Swift, the 7 year old son of Louis F. Swift, the Chicago packer, has submitted to an operation for appendicitis. Wm. L. Elkins, deceased, tbe street railway and gas operator, of Philadelphia, left a fortune of $31,578, 268.44 Heavy snows are reported from many different points in lowa. Gen. Wilmond W. Biackmar, com-mander-in-chief of the Grand Army ia on an afficial visit to St Louis posts. Fire at Hartford, Vt, destroyed the Hartford Chair Works, C. L. Bugbee’s carriage factory and warenouse and several small wooden buildings. Loss, $50,000.

Monday, Dec. 10.

Six river laborers were killed near Ashland, Ky., by drinking wood alcohol.

The Cuban senate has unanimously appropriated $326,000 to improve sanitation in the fifteen principal cities outside of Havana.

A New York Audubon society leader proposes to make a bird on a woman’s hat a badge of shame by law. A site has been purchased for a Mormon church in Harlem, N. Y., and the residents are prepared to fight it.

Three feet of snow on the level is the record of a storm in the east end of long Island, N. Y.

Captain Q. P. Stokes. Engineer A. Sale, Fireman A 1 Brandt and Sailor Thomas Johnson, lost their lives in the explosion of a petroleum barge off Long Branch, N. J.

Tuesday, Dec. SO. Attorneys for State Senator Frank H. Farris, on trial for bribery in Jefferson City, Mo., will present a motion for a change of venue. Mrs. Henry Brock at Hillsdale, Ind., in preventing a drunken husband setting fire to furniture on which be had poured oil, broke her leg and was injured internally. Judge E. M. Yayne of Chickasha, O* T., United States has been acquitted in the federal court at Lawton of the charge of drunkenness. The Cumberland Telephone and Telegraph company announced that Feb. 1 It will issue $1,800,000 of stock, to be used in constructing new linos in Louisiana and Mississippi. In the course of anti-war demonstrations at Moscow several person* wore slightly injured. Ginnars from all of the cotton growing states west of the Mississippi river met in Dallas, Tex., and organized the National Cotton Gtoners’ Association of the United States. Wednesday, Doc. SI. A committee has been appointed to Invite President Roosevelt to dedicate the new Chicago postoffice building. Government employes will have a half holiday on Saturday next, the day before Christmas, and a holiday on the following Monday. It is predicted that the fiscal year ending June, 1905, will see the greatest influx of immigrants into the United which *he country has yet seen. Almost daily the German authorities make public lists of deaths by typhoid fever among tbe German troops/ in Southwest Africa. The Chicago limited on the Pennsylvania railroad waa wrecked in a collision jMth A local train In the Philadelphia yards, and several persons were Injnred, none seriously. Hie Canadian Pacific officials announce that they have come to an amicable agreement with the Order of Railway Telegraphers.