Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 December 1904 — HEWS BRIEFLY STATED. [ARTICLE]

HEWS BRIEFLY STATED.

itfatter* of General Interest Taken from the Wires. Borne ot tbe Happenings of the Past Week Given in Condensed Paragraphs fbr Busy People. Thursday, Dee. 39. The official vote of Connecticut for governor Nov. 8 last gives Henry Roberts (Rep.) 25,572 plurality for governor over A. H. Robertson (Dem.). The Crane company, Chicago, will give its employes $250,000 in Christmas gifts this year, in salary increases. .A child was bora in the isolation hospital, Chicago, the mother, Mrs. Mary O’Connor, being a smallpox patient there. Earthquake shocks were felt within a radius of 150 miles of Panama and Colon. The disturbance was Blight. The casualties to date from all causes among the German troops operating in German Southwest Africa la: Officers, forty-nine; men, 510. Andrew Carnegie has offered to duplicate the Benjamin Franklin fund ot $400,000 at Boston If it goes to an industrial training school.

Friday, Dae. 33, The late Hugh McLaughlin, for years the leader of the Brooklyn Democratic organization, left an Estate valued at $3,000,000. , J The Rush estate, of Pittsburg, has purchased for $4,150,000 three New York totels —Bretton Hall and Regent and the Aberdeen —all thirteen-story buildings. Tbe solid fog persists at London and over the greater part of the United Kingdom, causing losses in London alone of $3,000,000 dally. Owing to the fog at London but two vessels entered that port Wednesday. A revolution has broken out in the Turkish vilayet of Yemen, In Arabia, so it is reported. A decided thaw followed by a light rain encourages the belief that the drought near Pittsburg, Pa., is broken. Clarence Forbes, of Chicago, and Harry Cobb, of Detroit fought ten rounds to a draw at Kalamazoo, Mich.

Saturday, Dee. 34. William K. Willoox has taken the oath of office as postmaster of New York. Manrlce Sayers, of Milwaukee, and Aurelio Herrera, of California, went six rounds to a draw 1 erore the Milwaukee Boxing clnb. A continuous rain fall throughout southern Ohio gives substantial relief from the drought of the last ninety days. The Little Rock (Ark.) Board of Trade has Invited President Roosevelt to visit Little Rock while on his southern trip. An elderly man, believed to be Gordon W. Lloyd, of Detroit, died suddenly in a restaurant at San Francisco.

Monday, Hoe. 20. Joseph W. Wallace, a life-long friend of Admiral Dewey, and his shipmate In the civil war, is dead at Worcester, Mass., aged 74 years. Rev. John MacKenzie Bacon, lecturer, scientist and aeronaut, is dead at Coldash. Newbury, G. 8., of pleurisy. He was 58 years old. •‘Bunco Tom” O’Brien, a celebrated Chicago crook, is dead in French penal colony in the South Pacific ocean, where he hod been sent for a murder done in Paris. Mts. Roosevelt, Miss Roosevelt and Kermlt Roosevelt are at New York spending tbe holidays. A general snow storm has begun in Colorado and Wyoming. Father John of Cronstadt is seriously ill and thousands of peasants are awaiting his recovery at Cronstadt, Russia, in order to confess. Tnssdsy, Deo. 27. Central Kansas is covered with sleet and a high north wind prevails. The beautiful chapel at Sailors’ Snug Harbor, a home for indigent seamen at New Brighton, Staten Island; was gutted by fire. Loss, $75,000. The S. M. Jones company, of Toledo, 0., distributed $5,000 among its employes as Christmas gifts. Leading men of Washington urge the return of the whipping post for wifebeaters and criminals of like nature. Sears, Roebuck & Co., of Chicago, are reported to he closing a deal for tbe purchase of the plant of the Meriden (Conn.) Malleable Iron company, and will employ 1,000 hands in tbe manufacture of firearms. Fred Jones, who shot and killed Constable William C. Gray and Mrs. Abbie Goodrich at Charlottesville, N. Y., Wednesday and then shot himself, died of his wound.

Wednesday, Dae. SS. The. fire at Morea mine of the Dodson Coal company at Mahanoy City, Pa., is under control. Seventeen hundred and eighty-four men, women and children have been reported missing at Philadelphia so far this year. Seven murders took place at New Orleans on Christmas Day. Twelve hours’ steady rainfall has relieved to a considerable extent the drought of the past three weeks in New York. The annual meeting of the American Base Ball Association has been postponed to Jan. 25. The will of the late William Alvord, of Saa Francisco, president of the Bank of California, disposes of property worth about 11,000,000.