Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1898 — NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS.

California Slate :m eonKtion nominated Henry Gage. a Los ■pelt's attorney, for Governor. ■Prince Paul Esterlia/y of Guluntha, ■lint of Edelstettin ami Faroliteiisirin. ■Mil, lie was horn March 21. 184:5. ■.linos: total failure of crop* in several ■trinees gives rise to fears cA a famine HRussiu tlurinp the coming winter, lit Mitchell, S. 1).. the Republicans of Kith Dakota nominated a full State Hppt, with Kirk Phillips for Governor Who tugboat Marian of tlie PennsylvaKfßailroad sunk at South Amlmy. N. H the pilot, James llenneshy, was W^ned. Bfdispntrh from Vienna to the London ■lily News says that ,'itlO miners were ■lilt'd hy the Hooding of the Kasimir ■I nline at Xienee, near Selinowiz. SiBPianist Sivekiug has been arrested at ■Mina for threatening to shoot at a mob ■lthe street who insulted him because he UUned to salute a priest with a crucifix. Kerent the priest rudely reprimanded HL. G. Menoenl, civil engineer in the ■try, who was court-martialed and sonKeed to suspension from duty on fe.r■lph pay for three years for neglect of ■ty in connection with the construction feilie Brooklyn dry dock, has been parIned by tlie President. Mr. Menocal ■tires from active service Sept. 1. IA St. Louis hank, one of protnineuce Ktmghout the West, has been for several Moths the victim of systematic robbery. |y means of a hooked wire, reached ■hough an orifice at the bottom of a steelWll«d vault, the culprit or culprits have fijfked ,a highly lucrative game, until nm the best information obtainable the believe the bank’s losses will lot up into five figures. The cashier of ■ bank has no explanation to make. Bteetives have the bank employes under ■veillance. Khe explosion of a large ammonia tank, led in the making of artificial ice, set ■K to Jacob Hoffman's Crescent brewery ■ New York. Within a very short time ■ entire block, surrounded by Third ■fertile, Fifty-fourth ami Fifty-fifth ■bets, seemed to be doomed. The surfc»nding tenements, all filled with slee|>■people, next ignited and the bewiljfed tenants began to pour out into the Mets by the hundreds. Many tlirilling ■cues of frightened men, women and Hdren were made by the firemen. ■fee typhoid epidemic in Belfast. In - ■kd, is. growing rapidly. Kix hundred Km have been reported in three weeks ■t every hospital Is filled to overflowing. K. terrible thunderstorm swept the whole ■bind peninsula of Deumark. Many ■jbuildings were struck l>y lightning, six ■pons were killed and thirty-nine farm ■Mings and thirteen houses burned. Mrs. Ada Botkin was arrested in Stocks' Cal., by Detective Gibson on a charge Kpurdering Mrs. John I’. Dunning and ■a. Deane. She is held to await extraHF/ffi?'- •(. t ,