Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1898 — NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS.

At Mexico, Mo., Aubra Burton was thrown from a horse and killed. Michael Benser, a teacher at St. Mary's institute, Dayton, Ohio, was drowned. t George Hackathorn, a robber, escaped , from the Columbus, Ohio, penitentiary. Emperor Kwang Su of China, according to a dispatch from Pekin, is reported seriously ill. Judge Hiram. Wilson Sawyer of Hartford has been nominated for Governor by the Democrats of Wisconsin., -The body of Isaac Touri, Jr., aged 7 years, missing for two days, was found in the main river at Ashtabula, Ohio, harbor. Pacific Express money packages containing S6,(KM> were stolen from the express office in the union impot at Omaha, Neb. At Cripple Creek, Colo., Dennis T. Clonev, whose home was in Sangamon, HI., was accidentally killed while cutting V timber. A report comes from London that an Anglo-American trust to control the output and sale of sewing machine, knitting machine and all other, kinds of needles is being formed. A special from Austin, Tex., says the dry goods store of Phillip Hatztield, the largest of its kind in that section of the State, was completely destroyed by tire. Lose about $135,000. A destructive timber fire has been rag- * tog in Carbonate camp, seven miles from Deadwood, S. D. A district five miles square, heavily timbered, has been burned over. The loss, already large, is likely to be increased. A mad dog at "the Ohio State hospital for the insane at Toledo bit a number of patients and tore a thumb from the hand of Dr. F. A. Todd, first assistant superintendent. The dog was killed after a desperate fight. At a joint mass meeting of the Welsh miners at was decided to accept the employers’ terms, offered at the Cardiff (Wales) conference, by which the miners get an increase of 5 per eent in their wages. This ends the disastrous six months’ strike. S The British cruiser Cleopatra, belonging to the training squadron, bus arrived at Copenhagen with the crew of the Norwegian schooner Livelieg, which she reports having sunk in collision near Haven Island. The Cleopatra put eighteen blue jackets on board the schooner in an effort s. to save that vessel, but she foundered so t (suddenly that of the blue jackets were drowned. Lieut. Col. Henry, one of the chief wit- < Besses against Captain Albert Dreyfus, killed himself in the Mont Valerien fortress, near Paris. He had made confes- | sion that the document which he offered at the trial had been forged to aid the army in the prosecution of Dreyfus. Upon hearing of the tragedy Gen. de Boisdeffre, chief of staff of the French army, re- * signed. ' Charles Cott, president of the failed Rosedale Bank, and. Editor C. E. Wright pf the Vicksburg Dispatch fought a duel &»ear Vicksburg. Wright was slightly wounded at the second shot, wheh the chief of police stopped the fight. The | trouble grew out of a newspaper controMfersy over the failure of the Rosedale Four heirs of the Adolph Sutro estate ?ln San Francisco have begun a contest of will on tile ground that the ex-Mayor Kb mentally incompetent tfi execute a valid iaatrument at the date mentioned Mj’the document.