Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1898 — News of Minor Note. [ARTICLE]

News of Minor Note.

At Irvine, Ky., Picas Hill was acquitted of the murder of Ambrose Christopher. The negroes in the United States represent about 12 per cent of the entire population. A man was killed in a fight at Salisaw, I. T., and a bystander and the mother of the victim fell dead from fright. Mrs. E. B. Ten Eyke has recovered $8,500 from the Long Island Railroad Company for the loss of both legs in an accident just before her marriage recently. The prospects of a food shortage in the Klondike next winter are being seriously discussed, as, transportation companies are not taking any •precautions to preventit. ■ Switzerland has entered a protest against the advantages given lo France by the reciprocity treaty with the United States, and demands that the same advantages be accorded to Swiss goods.