Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1899 — BREVITIES. [ARTICLE]

BREVITIES.

i Gen. Nelson A. Cole died nt St. Louis. ! New York newsboys have formed a union. • Solomon Jones, a negro, was hanged by a mob near Forrest, Ga. , W, A. Hamilton of Chicago hns been (elected president of the Beta Theta I’i (fraternity. - t The Pennsylvania Railroad Company (has decided to create a pension and superannuation fund for its old employes. i Canada has refused to allow the United States warship intended to be used as ■an Illinois training vessel to pass through the St. Lawrence. . Officers of the transmississippi commercial congress decided to hold the next (session of the congress in Houston, Tex., [April 17 to 21 next. 1 Dr. A. L. Lee and Gideon Kratzer of (North Baltimore, Ohio, who left for the (Klondike, were drowned at Crook’s Inlet, jtogether -with twenty others. • The Navy Department has decided in the case of new gunshops at Washington [navy yard that workmen must not be .employed more than eight hours a day. . Mrs. Mary Stevenson, aged 25, living in Detroit, administered morphine to her two daughters, Ella, aged 6, and Emma, aged 3, and then swallowed a quantity of the poison herself. Ella died. John Thompson and his wife, an aged couple residing between Cable and Bear Gap, Pa., were found dead in their home with a bullet wound in the head of each. Murder and suicide are suspected. The plant of the Little Rock Cooperage Company in North Little Rock, Ark., (was destroyed by fire. Loss about $75,f At Washington, Elihu, Root was sworn lln as Secretary of War, Two hours later (Gen. Alger, the retiring Secretary, was <en route to his home at Detroit by way of Philadelphia. , The Samoan commissioners sailed from (Apia, after signing the agreement abolishing the kingship and president, and Agreeing to an administrator witn a legislative council of three tripartite nomi-