Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 February 1899 — News of Minor Note. [ARTICLE]

News of Minor Note.

Russia sells to other countries 1,500,000,000 eggs a year. The Illinois State fair will increase its purses this year SIO,OOO for trotters aud pacers. The best three in five style of raciug is a horse-killing system, says a veteran of the turf. Customs receipts at Havana hnve nearly doubled since the Americans took possession of the city. What is known as “Mission Rock,” San Francisco Bay, has been officially set apart for a coaling station. It is reported that G. G. Gillette, the defaulting cattle king, will return to Kansas City and face his creditors. It is estimated that 40,000 tons of cucumbers are raised and eaten within the limits of the United States every year. The Farmers’ Club of San Jose, Cal., is forming an association to control the dried prone trade of the Pacific slope. Representative Payne of New York will snccieed the late Mr. Dingley as a member of the joint high Canadian commission. The working hours at the Missouri Pacific Railway shops at Sedalia, Mo., have been reduced from nine to eight a day. For the past two years each convict in the Missouri penitentiary haaemraed $c