Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1898 — NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS.

The Pope favors the annexation of dip Philippines to the United States. Claremont, Minn., was wiped out by fire the other night; twenty-two buildings being destroyed. An explosion of a wagon load of dynamite near New Whatcom, Wash., Killed two men and one boy. Several others are Injured. For a few days the heat wag so great in Kansas that the rails of the Union Pacific were warped out of shape at Bellevue and Silver Lake. By the overwhelming vote of 210 to 1 ♦he Illinois Methodist conference at Charleston, 11!.. declared in favor of equal lay representation for future conferences. Imported negro miners and strikers met In deadly conflict in the streets of Pann, 111. Two hundred" shots were fired and a wild riot ensued, in which several persons were wounded. A special excursion train on the way to the Halifax exhibition front Pictou, X. 8., crashed into a working train near Btellertou. Five persons were killed and one was injured. The Secretary of the Interior has ordered that the lands in the abandoned Fort Hartsuff. Xeb., military reservation, comprising 712 acres, be sold on Dec. 17 next at not less than their appraised value. The Kansas City Auditorium, destroyed by fire last winter, is to he rebuilt at an early day and run as a popular price house. Col. J. M. Wood of Chicago lias arrived with plans for the new building, which will be rebuilt at the instigation of Alexander Frazer, its manager, and leased to Burgess & Woodward, the Omaha theatrical firm. , J, West Goodwill, old-time editor, has been arrested at Sodalia, Mo., on the charge of using the typographical union label without authority. The local typographical union proposes to push tne prosecution in the State and Federal courts.