Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 March 1898 — Told in a Few Lines. [ARTICLE]

Told in a Few Lines.

Over 700 deaths occurred from the black plague in Bombay, India, during February. , During the cattlemen's convention at Fort Worth. Tex., stock to the value of $2,000,000 changed hands. A committee of the Norwegian parliament has recommended universal suffrage to all men above 25 years of age. Negotiations by the Government for the purchase of the two Japanese cruisers now being built in the United States are off. Oklahoma society is much interested in a divorce case which will be heard at this session of the District Court. The suit, has been brought by Mr. Sain Bigsnake, who wishes legal separation from Cress Bigsnake Littlecook, his wife. They are fulj-b’ooded Ponca Indians. William Weber has filed suit at Austin, Tex., against the Houston and Texas Central Railroad Company for $2,500 damages, alleging that he held a first-class ticket but was forced by the conductor to ride in a smoker, was abused by the conductor, and charged with being drunk, when, in fact, he was only in bad health, which was aggravated by his treatment and mental anguish.