Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1898 — BREVITIES. [ARTICLE]

BREVITIES.

Mrs. Sue Drake Motes, nt Burkett’s island, Tenn., shot and killed a negro. - Memorial services for those who lost their lives on the Bourgogne were held in Paris. The Secretary of War has approved the award of the contract for the San Pedro breakwater to the lowest bidder, Heldmair & Neu of Chicago. A great fire that broke out in Sunderland, at the mouth of the Wear, in England, destroyed thirty business buildings in three of the princii>al streets. At Guthrie, O. T., two laborers on the St. Louis and Oklahoma Railway, Aaron Gunter of Packerton, Ind., and J. A. Shanhaltzer of Centralia, 111., ftefo "muFand robbed of all their wages, r The Secretary 'of the Interior at Washington has received information that special forest agents have ejected more than 85,000 sheep from the Yosemite park, California, and will in a short time probably succeed in removing others now on that reserve. V Jasper Simpson, while resisting arrest, shot and instantly killed J. B. Grady and L. S. Hill, deputy United States marshals, near Jenson. Ark. l.ung Grady was a son of United States Marshal Grady of the central district. Marshal Grady has offered a reward of $5(Xt for the arrest and conviction of Simpson. Sherman S. Goodin, son of Dr. G. Goodin of Indianapolis, chief surgeon of the “Clover Leaf” Railroad, was shot and instantly killed at Charleston, W. Va., by James Whartons aged 10, while attempting th enter Jessie Murdock’s house. The Murdock woman has been having trouble with Goodin, who was infatuated with her, and on this occasion he made an attack upon her. The separating house at the Hercules powder works, located twelve miles below Hannibal, Mo., on the St. Louis, Keokuk and Northwestern Railroad, has been blown up as the result of the aeid becoming heated. Two employes were in the building, hut they bad warning and escaped before the explosion occurred. The building was totally demolished. No estimate of the damage has been made as yet, but the principal loss will be the closing of the plant. Only giant powder and similar explosives are manufactured at the plant. • Great excitement was created by the explosion of dynamite in the county jail at St. Joseph, Mo., the act of a number of desperate convicts awaiting transfer torfSuLyenitentiary. The rear end of the jan was wrecked, but the prisoners’ escape was prevented by citizens and officers, who hurried to the scene armed with guns and pistols. It la said thirty Fall River cotton mills will shut down four weeks in August to curtail the production. Fire in Newport. Ky., destroyed the Livety sawmill and thirty small dwellings. Loss, >130,000; insurance, >50,000.