Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1898 — NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS.

Armour & Co. will spend at least $250,* 000 In enlarging their packing house plan! at Omaha, 1 , At Newark, Ohio, Probate Judge David A. Allen was thrown from his buggy and instantly killed. John 11. Lane, storekeeper of the United States transport Minnewaska, dropped dead ou his ls>at at Savannah, Ga: At Norwalk, Ohio, the factory of the Sprague Umbrella Company was burned, ' Loss, s(iO,o<H); insurance, $40,000. At Los Angeles, Cal., authorities have discovered a herd of cattle on the Los Feiiz ranch that is infected with Texas fever. At Canton, Ohio, Joseph Saxton, an uncle of the wife of President McKinley, was struek by a street ear and seriously Injured. It is now certain that Adolph Sutro of San Francisco left a will, which is in the hands of Attorney lieubeu Lloyd. It will be offered for probate within a few days. Violent storms and floods, it is announced in advices from the Island of Formosa, have resulted in the loss of hundreds of lives at Talpeh, on that island. Great damage whs done to property there. The Great Southern Gas and Oil Company, a Zanesville, Ohio company, operat- | Ing with Chicago capital, Ims perfected arrangements with the Pittsburg Tube L Company to build a new plant for $450,000 which will furnish the cities of eastern and central Ohio with natural gas. | At Watertown, S. D., the body of a ? tnun was found in a box car, having a bnl--5 let wound at the base of the brain. J. V. L Gallagher of Newark, Oh io^,identified the j body as that of his brother, P, E. Galr lagher of Gibson, Ohio. P. E. Gallagher ; was on a pleasure trip through the West, I and is believed to have been murdered for 6 his money by Henry Walker and Henry I Elliott. | At a dance at Earlboro, Ok., Isaac |, Jones, a white mun, was stabbed to death i by Johnson Tiger, an Indian, in a quarrel I over a white girl. ; Mrs. (Charles Frederick Worth, widow | Of the famous Paris costumer, who died I in March, 1895, and his successor in the 1 superintendence of the Worth establishj meat, is dead. f Fifty tramps captured a Great NorthI ern freight train three miles west of I Grand Forks, N. I)., and ran It to Lari- | mote, about twenty miles, where they I were captured by officers and citizens, fc They offered stubborn resistance.