Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 February 1899 — BREVITIES. [ARTICLE]

BREVITIES.

Andrew Carnegie has offered Atlautn, Ga., SIOO,OOO for a free public library. Gen. Castellanos says that the evacuation of Cuba by the Spanish army is completed. Over 10,000 cans of bad beef, intended for Havnuu poor, was sunk in the seu the other day. William Laird of the famous shipbuilding firm of Laird Bros., at Birkenhead, England, is dcnd. Paris has a report that a vessel has been sent to Devil’s Island to transport Dreyfus to France. Theodore A. Havemeycr, Jr„ is serving on a petit jury at New York, Recorder Goff refusing to excuse hiui. Ore assaying 70 to 80 per cent copper and 050 ounces of silver to the ton is reported to have been found in Montrose County, Colo. s Rev. James Monroe Taylor, president of Vassar College, has been unanimously elected president of Brown University at Providence, R. I. Eight Jewish pupils have been required to leave the Catholic convent and school of the Sacred Heart at Omaha on alleged religious grounds. The great snow blockade on the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad, in the Colorado mountains, has been broken, and trains are again running as usual. The Naval Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives has decided ta recommend the coustructiou of twelve powerful warships for the uavy. Alfred, hereditary Prince of 8a xc-Co-burg-Gotha, died at Martinsbruu, near Meran, after four hours of agony. Brain disease was the cause of death. He was 25 years old. The American Car and Foundry Company will sora be incorporated under New Jersey laws, with a capital stock of SOO,000,000. Jndge Hazen of the District Court at Topeka, Kan., handed down nn opinion in which he sustained the legality of the special session of the Legislature in every particular, i v At Hoopeston. 111., the large grain elevator owned and operated by the Hoopeston Grain and Coal Company was destroyed by fire, with between 12,000 and IQjOQO bushels of corn and oata. Two bom* ware burned to death.