Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1899 — IN A NUT SHEKK [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

IN A NUT SHEKK

The regular army of the United States wifi he recruited to full strength, 105,000, hy May 1. Gen. Gomez will go on distributing the sXoOt>,OO*> to his soldiers, as if the Assembly did not exist. Charlie Wah-Hang, once king of Bostoa Chinatown, a notorious character of national reputation, is dead. A hundred years ago the Hawaiian Islands were said to have had 400,000 population; now 30,000 is a high estimate. la Philadelphia. 15-year-old Sadie Lurdin committed suicide by drinking lauda-naaa-oa account of her inability to obtain esapleymeat. William Morrison, an 18-yea r-okl printer's apprentice in Boston, has fallen heir to $20,000,000 by the death of an uncle ia Cafifonia. / The grand jury at Lexington. Ky., indicted Cot- Jack Chinn for “common nuisance,” growing out of his abuse of Hon. (L J. Bronstoa. In the Philippines the insurgents* control s mam confined, to the Island of Luzon, where their forces are split by the American tines. The London Daily News says that the real i alps it in the Dreyfus affair is Count van Mohrenheim. the former Russian ambassador at Paris. A sack of horned bones, part of the remain* of Mrs. Becker, who was murdered by her husband in Chicago. have been unearthed by the police. The Spanish general, Toral. is under arrest ha Madrid, and will be court marcharge of unnecessarily surrendering to Gen. Shatter at Santiago. Near Emporium, Pa., a pet bloodhound attacked an aged couple named Jackson, mangEng theta terribly, and only (he timely arrival of a neighbor saved their lives. The late Judge R. M. Dorsey of Howard County. MtL. was born in a snowstorm, rode tweaty miles through one to W married, and was buried in the midst of the last MhaanL - Gen. Lee and h-s wife occupy only part aT a house ia Havana. Their breakfast consists daily of coffee and rolls, the Utter brought from a little Cuban restau-