Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1899 — NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS.

Klndependent lake vessel owners are (talking of forming a combine. I; Rev. Charles F. Haywood of Silver (Creek. Neb., was fined $25 for accepting ■ drink of whisky. I. Gideon J. Tucker. formerly Secretary pf State of New York, died at New York (City. He was 73 years old. t Jealousy caused Mrs. Annie Ryan to khrow carbolic acid in the face of her neighbor. Widow McCarthy. Mrs. McCarthy is dead. ■K3en. Ulises Hcureaux, president of the Etoutiuicau republic,lwas assassinated at Moca, Santo Domingo. The murderer is Banion Caceros. - He made his escape. [.Mr*. Fannie jStevcmwm. -colored, of Hamerten, Pa., crushed her infant child's Bead With un ax. sifter which she threw (be body to some hungry hogs, by which ■he remains were devoured. ■At Denmark. Ind.. Charles Wolfangel ■hopped his wife ami two daughters to Ifeath. then cut his own throat ami died M the floor by his wife’s bedside. He is Bought to have Iwen insane. ■Secretary Hitchcock has finally settled ■e (,’ass Lake. Minn., controversy by ■nnouneiug that the Government will sell ■0 land upon which the town is located B.#uy desire to purchase. Hpaeking but a few days of lOC. years, Mrs. Catherine Dillon, the oldest woman k Rucks County, is dead at Bristol She Bas born in Ireland July 27. 1793, and Bme to this country early in life. BF. Thever. a cobbler. 50 years old, shot ■nd instantly killed Miss Dorothy McKee. aged 24 years, t.n the beach at Long ■each. Cal. Thever was jealous. After Be girl had fallen he shot himself fatally. ■The home of D. 11. Knupp. at Black KMintaiii. thirteen miles east of AsheHle. N. C., was burned. E. Fogote, an Mkito-t. and an Englishman, whose ■lue is unknown, iterished in the flames. ■■Mien Thomas Wells, general freight Bent of the Denver and Rio Grande ■jilroad, died at Denver of diabetes. He ■as bom at Memphis, Tenn., in 185-1. ■Thomas Jefferson Sawyer. D. D., Bos■fi, Mass., professor of Christian theoioBgand formerly dean of Tufts College, is Bm<>- Dr Sawyer was born at Reading, ■pen. 9. 1804.. ■UEFinley, third officer of the steamship ■Brone, now being fitted up at Seattle transport, has received word from Htglaml that through the death of his HKu*r he is heir to an er-«- amounting ■■Mill S4.<HM 1.990.