Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 March 1898 — Telegraphic Brevities. [ARTICLE]

Telegraphic Brevities.

California’s petroleum trade is booming. Thirty-two new wells have been sunk since March 1. Reports from various points in New England show that the cotton mill strike will soon end. The convention of cattle raisers at Fort Worth, Tex., raised a subscription for a monument to the dead of the battleship Maine. At Holly Springs, Miss., little May Briggs, the 4-year-old daughter of .Tames Briggs, swallowed a button and choked to death in a few minutes. Kain has fallen abundantly all over Kansas, and stock water, which was scarce, is now plentiful, and pastures and wheat are much benefited. A contract was let by the Board of Public Affairs for lighting the city of Fort Smith, Ark., with electricity. The contract carries with it an electric street car franchise, to be put in operation in twelve months. Spain’s ideal hero, Franscuelo, the celebrated bull fighter, who has been honored by the queen regent and high officials of the Government, is dead, and all Spain is in mourning. There is no doubt now that at least eleven of the deputies of Sheriff Martin will be tried a second time on charges of feloniously wounding strikers at Lattimer, I’a., last September. Enlistment of able-bodied seamen for the United States navy is being rapidly pushed on the receiving ship at Mare Island navy yard, and large supplies of provisions and ammunition are being laid in, and the Yorktown and Pbiladelplua are being placed in readiness for sea.