Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1898 — BREVITIES. [ARTICLE]

BREVITIES.

’Jolorabla will grant an extension of six itrs to the Panama Gannl Company, yeveuteen of Baltimore's brewing compies have consolidated under the name i Ithe Maryland Brewing Cempany. ythn A. Henry, a proofreader and forrly an associate of the Chicago anarch1, committed suicide at New York. ■ original manuscript treatise on | js tides has been discovered in the Vatn library. It was completed in 1616. ; Alexander Nirnick, one of tlio oldest d best-known steel and iron mauufac•ers in I*ittsburg. died, aged 78 years. [*he Merritt & Chapman Company lias ,de a contract with the Government for . t f| t Mining of the Spanish warship Iteiua •rcedes. , Samuel Gompers was re-elected presiirt of the American Federation of I.alior I a practically unanimous vo*e at the tbteenth annual convention of that or- . ftaization iu Kansas City. Jk fire ruined the big dry goods ware- ' fuse of S. Greenshields’ Son & Co. at tmtreal, one of the largest dry goods |nses in Canada. Losses on building and pek amount to $500,000. fiProf. Irving Fisher, one of Yale’s most l»mising younger professor and an jj&erican authority on finance, has reamed from his professorship for a year wausc of a pulnionuijT trouble. »pbu Kerrigan and Walter 11. Holbrook Are killed in a collision between electric f|g|h# ill Leicester, Mass., and several oth- |, passengers were dangerously hurt. The JxHaion occurred during a dense fog. Steele, former cashier of the fjlecked Chestnut Street National Bank, liiladelphia, was sentenced to six years %d six months’ imprisonment and to pay |tae. He was convicted of conspiracy. Iliformer Queen Liliuoknlnni lias sent to jE- United States Senate i a protest Spoilt the appropriation of the cmwii Ijrolg of Hawaii by the United States, wkceordi^J9 Mu Rome dispatch the Pope ■I declined to receive Don Carlos, thus mdhift the pretender's hopes of getting bis pUness to rescind his decision to support .me Queen in the expected revolution. ®Che Postmaster General announces tb" ■tpiolntmrnt of Mnj. E. O. Itathbone of ex-fourth assistant Postmaster Gcnpal to take charge of and conduct the szrz'zii Caba ’ wltii tbe title of