Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 December 1898 — BREVITIES. [ARTICLE]

BREVITIES.

At a charity bazaar at Cleveland a doll |imade by Mrs. McKinley sold for 5148. r It is rumored that the Leach Lake TnI dians are preparing for another uprising. ; The steamer Rosalie, from the towns lon the Lynn Cana), reports that 1,000 I men from Dawson are making their way ■ to the coast. : The mystery surrounding the gift of ? $250 ,000 to the University of New York | has been cleared up by the discovery that Helen Could was the donor. L At Ashtabula. 0., the schooner George | B. Owen, coal-laden, parted from her < Steamer, the W.l*. Ketcham, and went | ashore near the piers. She was greatly | damaged. F< According to a Cairo correspondent, the cotton crop is estimated at 5,- | 750,000 kantares, which is 7'50,000 kan- | tares less than the crop of last year. As la consequence prices are rising. The Supreme Court of Ohio has sustainfed the Otis law, under which a Republican t board of city affairs was ousted in Cinheinnati and a bi-partisan board appointed | in its place by a Democratic Mayor. K The Comptroller of the Currency has an assessment of 100 per cent on “the stock the recently failed First NaMonal Batikolf Emporia, Kan. ' ■ Powell Clayton, minister to Mexico, has jMbeea raised to the rank of ambassador by McKinley, the Mexican Government having so promoted Senor RoI'jnero, its minister to this country. | The British foreign office has received thews that Lieuts. Keating and Gale and native soldiers were massacred in gOetober last, while parleying with tribesmen ot the Niger territory between Jobba ' . e