Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1898 — NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS.

W. J. Bryan is out in an interview opposing territorial expansion. Gen. Ludlow has been designated to act as the first military governor of Havana. Mgr. Antonio, Count Renier, for fifteen years secretary to I’ope Pius IX., is dead at New York. The Union Tobacco Company has secured the entire capital stock of the Black Durham Company for $2,500,000. The Fourth regiment of United States infantry, now at Fort Sheridan, Chicago, has been ordered by Secretary Alger to proceed to Manila. Sir William Jenner, the distinguished pathologist and physician in ordinary to the Queen and the Prince of Wales, died at London, aged 83. At Sacramento, Cal., the Union iron works of Root, Nielsen & Co. have been destroyed by fire, which started in the engine room. Loss $60,000, insurance $20,000. Emil Marx, who lives at 365 Evergreen | avenue, Brooklyn, caught a burglar, found under his bed. The intruder was a well- ’ dressed woman. In her pockets were skeleton keys. Frank A. Graham, Mayor of Lincoln, Neb., has been acquitted by order of the trial court of the charge of accepting a SSO bribe from an employe of the city ! waterworks department. The private bank of the Tyler Banking Company, Tyler, Texas, has closed, on account of heavy withdrawal deposits. Assets, $40,000; liabilities, $20,000. Because the parents of Sopbronia Ford, a Bismarck, N. D., mulatto girl, would sot consent to her marrying him, J. W. Cole shot the girl on the street, causing ’ her to die instantly. ; ' Jay Gould’s millions have secured the Chicago and Alton Railroad, and a consolidation of all the southwestern lines owned by George Gould and the other K heirs of,the wisard, with the new acquisition, win be announced very soon. B •