Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1898 — Telegraphic Brevities. [ARTICLE]

Telegraphic Brevities.

Along the entire Atlantic coast the reed bird and oyster season opened Sept. 1. Mrs. Mary Mnzique, who died recently in Little Rock, Ark., at one time weighed over 700 pounds. The National W. C. T. U. has asked Miss Leiter of Chicago to christen the battleship Illinois with water. Li Hung Chang’s dismissal from the Chinese foreign office does not divest him entirely of his official powers. A perfect model of the battleship Maine, cut from a block of anthracite coal, by a patriotic miner, is on exhibition at Hazleton, Pa. The daughter of President Faure o, Franee recently expressed herself publicly in favor of a revision of the Dreyfus court martial. The memorial monument to Lafayette to be erected by Americans at the Paris exposition will be unveiled on United States day, July 4. ----- *-• *'•’*