Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1899 — Told in a Few Lincs. [ARTICLE]

Told in a Few Lincs.

Col. Robert G. Ingersoll left no will. Bank of Spain has decided to make all payments in silver. Bessie Smith, 2, New Castle, rtu, played with matches. Now dead. The Alton will secure central of the Union Transfer Company, Chicago. Small dealers of Boston are organising against the big department stores. Gen. Ludlow of Havana has suppressed the scurrilous Cuban newspaper, El Eeconcehtrado. Alfred Vanderbilt and his party of globe trotters sailed on the Empress of India for Yokohama. Negotiations are no* pending to induce the powers to allo* Italy free hand if the peaceable acquisition of San Maa Bay, in China, is impossible.