Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1898 — NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS.

s Elmer Gerren of Conneaut, Ohio, shot himself in the head and is dead. ? Edward ('. Smith of St. Albans was I named for Governor of Vermont by the [ Republicans. K Gov. Mount of Indiana was stricken suddenly at his desk, and his friends fear a paralytic stroke. t Wharton Barker, the Philadelphia | financier and editor, was named for Presbf Meat in 1900 by the Populists at Uincin- | nati. A tornado blew down several buildings I in Springfield township,.l’a.. killing three 5 men, and ruined the «curn ami buckwheat V crops. f At Toledo. Ohio. Judge Hammond of the United States Court named James B. Townsend of Lima receiver for the De- ■ troit and Lima Northern Railroad. | The court has decided in favor of the > Carnegie company and the Cambria Iron : Company at Johnstown must cease oper- " ating its Bessemer steel process. R At Warrensburg, Mo., W. 11. Hartman, senior member of the firm of Hartman & Markward, proprietors of the Magnolia mills, was shot and killed by Adolph Lubrick. A dispatch from Washington says Pres- ■ ident McKinley has consented to visit | Omaha Oct. 12, during the week of the j peace jubilee at the Transmississirpi exposition. A rumor at, Hong Kong, emanating , from Spanish sources, says Germany has purchased the Palawan and Sulu Islands I from Spain and will take possession immediately. fi Tije Peruvian congress, by an immense majority, has sanctioned the suspension : of the writ of habeas corpus as the result .of the Cacerist agitation and other disturbances. b- ' R. D. (.‘ole, a farmer in Henry Con ity. f Tennessee, shot and killed a man who he I believes was Otto Matties, the murderer ; of State Senator Wall of Staunton, 111., a few weeks ago. h The corporation of Dublin has elected i.as sword bearer James Egan of New ( York, who was recently released from prison after fifteen years’ penal servitude i for treason-felony. fc At San Francisco, Cal., the expected contest of the will of Adolph Sutro has |been filed. The most important allegn- . tion is that the deceased millionaire was «»f unsound mind May 22. h The body of Foster M. Payne, a telei graph operator for the Kansas City. Memi phis and Birmingham Railroad, was | found in a railroad yard in Memphis, T'enn., the head having been severed from the body. It is thought the young man was murdered. < At Wilmington, Del., the Federal grand jury reconvened and returned another indictment against United States Senator I Richard R. Kenney, already charged I with aiding and abetting defaulting Teller WHliam N. Boggs to misapply the funds j es the First National Bank of Dover, fe The United States gunboat Bennington |ihae been ordered to PagoT’ago bay. BaJrtnoa, .according to Mare Island reports, to' fcjuake a survey for a coaling station. Upon finishing, the survey she will proceed to t,Manila and relieve the Concord, which f.wili go to Mnre Island and go on drj; 'dock, the English docks not being avalli El Hung Chang has been dismissed from-power. It ia.preaunied it was done In demand which it