Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1899 — NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS.

William C. Whitney declares that he is out of politics. Mrs. Emma Blunt. Minneapolis, Minn., is dead. She was the wife of Abbott associate editor of the Times. t , Maj. Marehand has been offered the ' -post of governor of the French settleanent on the Somali coast, and envoy ex- • traordinary to King Menelik of Abyssinia. The business portion of Carlisle. Ky.. I was destroyed by fire, entailing a loss of h SOO,OOO. C. G. Rogers’ tobacco warejhouse, containing SttO.lMlO j>ounds of tobacco, worth s4o.o(lo.was burned. , The inquest into the death of Charles ’A. F. Autenreith. the supposed wealthy e Philadelphia banker, who committed sui‘cide by shooting himself, disclosed the fact that he was on the verge of financial ' ruin. t In a quarrel near Sibley. Mo.. David Elliott was shot ami killed hy his brother. Thomas H. Elliott. The shooting was done with an old-style muule-load- . Ing shotgun. The brothers quarreled | .'•ome time ago. ? A hurricane swept over the Island of ■ St. Croix. West Indies. Much damage | was done, but no death has l>een reportpad. The force of the storm was also ex- ; perienccd al St. Thomas, l»ut the damage done was slight The engine and a portion of a sonthB IhßQnd Dos Angeles express train on the ■* Bontbern Pacific Railread were derailed wear Don Palos, Cal. Engineer C. J. Ford is reporUsl te have been killed. None of the passengers lost his life. The steamer lowa was «nnk at Falls point, five miles below Monnt Vernon. Ind., and is a total lass. There were 001 passengers on lx»ard. and they had u narrow escape. One of the deck hands is missing. and it is thought he was lost. L At Amite City. La„ Adolphus, alias P •‘Echo.’’ Brown, colored, was shot nnd killed and Edgar and EdwaAl Barr severely flogged by a gang of armed men. , The last company of militia has left Cleveland, the authorities having decided that there is little probability of any further troublp in connection with the ft Noah Finley. the negro who robbed and attempted to kill Maj. IMrst at Dublin. ■■ has been sentenced to Im* hanged. the jury having been notified that if a HmdSct was not jreudered by a certain hour Fimeywouid be lynched.