Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1905 — NEWS BRIEFLY STATED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS BRIEFLY STATED.

Matters of General Interest Takers from the Wires. , Some of the Happenings of the Past Week Given in Condensed Para, graphs for Busy People. Thursday, Dee. 99. The cold wave is letting up west and passing on to the east. For the first day in many years not ' a suit for divorce was filed In Chicago Tuesday. The Rhodes scholarship board announces that examinations for Illinois . will be held at Chicago, Jan. 17 and 18. The northern Cheyenne Indians are I said to be pitifully destitute and raiding the cattle herds for food. A mob of thirty men from Selby, S. D., went to Bangor, S. D„ carried off the records of Walworth county, and took them to Selby. County seat fight The sixth general meeting of the Archaeloglcal Institute of America is : In session at Boston. It is said that P. A. Deveny, H. J. Brice and Edward Slack, of Fairmont jW. Va. ( believing her innocent will give bail for Nan Patterson. radty, Doe. so. The court of special sessions of New York holds valid the law against selling or giving away by passengers of street railway transfers. Great Britain is preparing designs for new battleships of 17,000 to 18,000 tons and carrying ten 12-inch guns. Jones M. Wither’s camp, No. 675, United Confederate Veterans, Mobile, has forwarded to President Roosevelt an invitation to visit Mobile. Insurance companies doing business at Sioux City, la., will have to pay out a total of f 1,160,350 for losses in Sioux City’s big conflagration Dec. 23. Emperor William has issued a decree ordering the adoption of strict measures for the prevention of maltreatment of soldiers. The Aurora (Ill.) Elks gave a Christmas week dinner to 400 children. Saturday, Deo. 31. Mrs. Chadwick has telegraphed her husband, to reach him when he arrives at New York, to go at once to Cleveland and not fight extradition. Santiago Slmonet, of Utuado, a deputy collector of internal revenue for the district of Areclbo, P. R., is missing, with his accounts short. It has been decided that General Horace Porter, of New York, shall retire as ambassador to France, and his successor will lie George von Lenerke Meyer, present ambassador to Italy. Theretirement of Rear Admiral Silas Terry results In the promotion of Captain Joseph E. Craig to be rear admiral. Monday, Jan. 2. The Roman Catholic priests of Paradise and Zuniga, P. R., have been expelled from the church by Bishop Blenk and ordered to leave Porto Rico. Joseph Folk, governor-elect of Missouri. has accepted the Invitation to the annual banquet of the Missouri Society of New York, March 15. Edna Wallace Hopper, the actress, is to donate ground for a newsboys’ home at Oakland, Cal. The British steamer Drumelzier, aground off Oak island, near New York, has broken in half. ' The submarine tunnel connecting Boston and East Boston has been opened for public travel. It is 1.4 miles long. Many persons were killed or injured in Belgium by a terrific hurricane, which also caused much damage to property. During a violent storm in North German four persons were killed and a number injured by collapsing wails.

Tuesday, Jan. 3. Three daughters of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Williams, of Allegheny, Pa., made them grandparents on Dec. 31—two boys and twin girla The Volunteers of America fed 6,000 destitute persons at Chicago New Year’s Day. Bryant B. Brooks was duly inaugurated governor of Wyoming. John Alexander Dowie announces that he will found another Zion City on a tract of 1,000,000 acres which he will purchase in Mexico. The emperor of Germany and king of Denmark sent New Year greetings to the United States. A bill making limited-length marriages possible will be introduced in the Kansas legislature. “Tom” Keenan, a railway evangelist, is to be sent west by Miss Helen Gould to preach religion and temperance to railroad men.

Wednesday, Jan. 4. The National Forestry convention 1* Id session at Washington. The Philadelphia mint struck off gold coins to the value of *120.144,428 last year, the largest amount in its history. Governor George 'll. Utter, of Rhode Island, has been inaugurated with the other state officers chosen Id November. A civil service system similar to that in operation in the Philippines la expected to be Instituted shortly In Porto Rico. The Roman Catholic bishop of Porto Rico has offered an estate in that country worth *BO,OOO to the Sisters of the Sacred Heart In Columbus, 0., In gratitude to Father Els and the sisters In aiding work in the island. In a speed test at sea the U. 8. 8. Chattanooga made an official record of 16.7 knots an hoar, being a fraction faster than the contract speed.