Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1898 — Telegraphic Brevities [ARTICLE]

Telegraphic Brevities

Two-thirds of the mule population of the world use tobacco. Sofith Dakota’s wheat yield is 100 per cent greater than last year.' Flax is being successfully grown near Victoria, in southern Texas. During the recent German elections not one vote was cast in the town of Postroff a place of 8,000 inhabitants. A booth was erected, hut, as none of the citizens appeared to vote, even the election officers refrained from casting their ballots. W. A. Thomas of Bevierville, Tenn. while driving in a heavy wagon along a country road, became engaged In an altercation with James Mitchell, a negro, who struck him with brass knuckles, knocking him under the wagon, the wheels of which passed over his body, killing him instantly. Mitchell was arrested.