Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 March 1899 — BREVITIES. [ARTICLE]

BREVITIES.

Oyster growers and dealers are planning a $10,000,000 combine. Matthew Mills of Chicago has been elected president of the Yale Y. M. C. A. I>r. Hauer, the eminent geologist and member of the German privy council, is dead. A convention delimiting the frontiers of Great Britain ami France in the Nile Talley has been signed at London. William 11. Oakley. 72 years of age, president of the National Citizens’ Bank, died from enlargement of the lieart at New York. At Wichita, Kan., Nina Haymond has been arrested and placed in jail, charged with the murder of Edwin C. Jones. She admits that she struck him over the head with a bed slat. Charles Haun and a boy named Hull were struck by an east-bound Rio Grande passenger train while (Tossing the tracks in a wagon seven miles south of Salt Lake, Utah, and both instantly killed. At San Francisco. John Epperson, a jockey and part owner of the horses Texarkana and Bessie Lee, was stabbed to death by James J. Gilligan, a horse rubber, the men had been enemies for a long time. During the absence of John Dian and wife of Grenfell, Man., from their farm their residence caught fire and their five children were burned to death. r - According to advices from th»> Orient the Emperor of Corea has caused a sepoation by appearing in a full uniform ent tn American fashion. His attendants ulso have been attiredin American style. k General Duckett, a negro, who murdered James Stockton, a planter," was lynched by a Dnekett had been Magaths bottoms siace the crime, but WM Wtiptet* <h>r render. He coufesseA Ae