Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 December 1897 — News of Minor Note. [ARTICLE]

News of Minor Note.

Gen. Charles E. Hovey, a well-known lawyer, formerly of Illinois, died at Washington, aged 70 years. Senor Jorge Tezanos Pinto, father-in,* law of President Uriburu of Argentina, and the Argentina consul in Lima, is dead at Lima, Peru. Austin Porior, colored, of Philadefphia, dropped dead while being eongratulated upon his election to the presidency of the Hotel Brotherhood. At Maplesville, Ala., seven men nr« dead and seventeen more are not expected to live from the result of drinking a mix* ture of wood alcohol and cheap whisky. The Government of Japan has sent an order to locomotive builders in Jersey City for fifteen locomotives for use on heavy trains. Work on the locomotives will be begun at once. An attempt to hold up and rob a passenger train on the Mexican National road near Monterey, Mex., was made by nine masked and well-armed The passengers made resistance and th* outlaws were unsuccessful. District Attorney Finical of Albuquerque, N. M., has received a telegram from Dalin Graham, the constable at Brisbee, Ariz., saying that he had apprehended three train robbers who held ujj the Santa Fe and Pacific passenger train at Grant’s station. Jones & Laugldin of Pittsburg notified their 3,000 iron workers, known as day. men, that commencing Dec. 1, their wage# would be increased 10 per cent. This restores the reduction made some month* ago as promised by the firm as soon a* improved conditions would warrant. • The depositors of the Bank of Minnesota at St. Paul will receive a 10 per cent dividend. It is now believed that the! bank may pay GO per cent to depositors, The Bank of Minnesota closed on Dec, 22 last, its failure precipitating the difficulty of last wiuter among the St. Paul banks. A charter has been granted for thd| Southern Sugar Refining Company a| Richmond, Ya. The maximum capital ot the company is to be $1,000,000. The object is to encourage the raising of sugar beets and the manufacture of beet sugary It is the pioneer enterprise of the kind in that section. The stockholders of the California Winemakers’ corporation, which control* the bulk of the output of the State, have decided to enter the markets of the world and try to dispose of the immense stock now on hand, aud which, owing to trouble between the corporation and the win® k; deata* „ I \