Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1899 — BREVITIES. [ARTICLE]

BREVITIES.

A fire destroyed 150 houses at La Pointe-a-Pitre. Island of Guadeloupe. Andrew Carnegie has offered to donate $1,750,000 for additions to rhe Central Library buildings at Pittsburg. Hon. .1. I). Ellis. Representative from Vernon'County, is dead at his home near Nevada. Mo., of pneumonia. Mr. Ellis' wife died of the same disease about a week lief ore. Mrs. Mary McKee, daughter of former President Harrison, has lieen appointed by Gov. Roosevelt a commissioner to the 1900 exposition in Paris to represent the State of New York. > Newton Hilliard, formerly part owner and manager of the Baker Opera Company, has been adjudged insane in the probate court at Cleveland, Ohio, and ordered sent to an asylum. At Winnipeg. Man., Mrs. George Mid|Wpton. while out bicycling with her sister. | was run down by n runaway team and killed. Her sister. Miss Graieve. fell out t<Of the path of the team and escaped. | The fishing schooner Eliza of Beverly, Ewaas., which sailed from Hyannis for trailing grounds, struck on Rose and fcOrowu shoals during the night and eleven of the crew of fourteen men were Jost. The Congregational Sunday School and ‘ Society, in session at Boston, Hijected Willard Scott. D. D„ of Worcester, president, and William E. Barton. Ik D„ Oak Park, 111., a vice-president. Gen. Henry, owing to illness, is to be reof the governorship of Porto Rico. The military force in Porto Rico is also Hipbe materially reduced. * ; Urs. Cook, wife of Captain Frank Cook. 1 Who Commanded the Brooklyn during the B*tewar, died in Annapolis. Md.. after a EBKdainr Illness. Captain Cook was ab£la k fit of jealousy at Cleveland. Wiljfem Beatty, aged 22. shot and killed John aged 32. and sent a bullet ■tough the forehead of Mabel Day. over Mfbom the men had quarreled. The woman •hovaa