Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1898 — NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS.

■ft; Gen. John J. Dupuy, n prominent cxfl Confederate soldier, died in Memphis. || It is reported in court circles that Prince IGeorge of Greece is engaged to Princess * Victoria of Wales. Ex-Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii a elaims 1;000,(K»0 acres of Hawaiian land * acquired under the title. H Dr. John Henry Harrows, the popular K Chicago divine, has been elected president § of Oberlin (Ohio) College. .United States Consul Gibbs, at Tatna- % tave, Madagascar, reports the bubonic plague has broken out at that place. The Birmingham Rolling Mill Company K of Birmingham. Ala., has tiled a deed of assignment. The liabilities are estimated at $200,000. At St. Louis, James L. Wilcox and | William H. Shaw have been sentenced to | icthree years each in the penitentiary for l “sweating” gold coins. | |; The Czar is said to have informed the |s3ultan that, though Pr.inee George is to be commissioner iu Crete, the Sultan’s i |*6vereignty over the island will be safe- : | guarded, j * A man giving his name as Charles Walker, d his residence Quebec, has been arrested at Lyons, France, for.at- ■ I tempting to rob a bank messenger. Two ||£ accomplices escaped, ft- Trouble is brewing between Germany | and the Congo Free State touching the ftft boundary of Congo territory north of Bpfake Tanganika. Both sides are reported E-tO be increasing their forces. " pThe Campania Transatlantica has eharI tered the steamers liapslmrg, Fulda and ft Werra of the North German Lloyd Steaml ehip Company and will use them in re-p-moving Spanish troops from Cuba. R’ A rumor is current in army headqunr- ( ters that between now and Jan. 1 5.000 ft soldiers will be concentrated at San Fran- ■ cisco to embark for the Philippines. fc The Alaskan steamer Detroit was HKjfleked on Shelter Island, twenty miles Rfrom Juneau. The twenty-seven passen■Mpers and the members of the crew were t , A correspondent in San Salvador cables ftthtt order has been completely restored ■|jh|jthat State, the rebel uprising having ■Wtep quelled and all demands having been ft submitted to the provffioftaL government ■Sftttblished by Senor’ w fW»s Regala.