Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 August 1899 — BREVITIES. [ARTICLE]

BREVITIES.

|t Prince Henry of Germany is to visit fe; the United States on returning from the R East. Symptoms similnn to those of the bull bonic plague have been found at Oporto, | Portugal. E. The anti-Goebel Democrats in Kentucky have nominated John Younjy | Brown for Governor. Earthquake shocks, accompanied by ; torrents of rain, are reported from the ‘ central portion of Portugal. Fire at Westchester, N. Y., destroyed | St. Peter’s Episcopal Church and most of its contents. Loss, $200,000. The first national convention of the | Young People’s Christian Temperance s Union will meet in Chicago Sept. 20. Franklin Hassler and Hilda H. and 6 Gertie Fleischman of Harrisburg. Pa., were killed by the Lebanon Valley ex- , press. . _ _ 3 At Elkton, S. D., two drunken harvest 1 hands resisted arrest by Marshal Fergu- | son, and the officer killed one of them in s. (self-defense. The dead man's name is | not known. The surveying steamer Resolute was | Bunk in collision with the British steanij er Scindia, last reported from Calcutta, for Bombay. Several lives were lost in the disaster. Joseph Brunock, a railroad man, has ‘ brought suit against President Trumbull ;of the Colorado and Southern Railroad « Company for $20,000 damages on the ground that he has been blacklisted by that road. . Mrs. Lily Langtry, the actress, was ( married recently at the Island of Jersey to Hugo Gerald de Bathe, 28 years of age, eldest son of Sir Henry Percival de Bathe, hurt., a retired general and Crimean veteran. \ The oroner's jury investigating the "Bridgeport, Conn., trolley accident, s whereby twenty-nine persons were killed, caused the arrest of William Kelly, who admitted having perjured himself to protect the traction company. ( At East Bernstadt, Ky., Charles Jones was shot and, instantly killed by Cam Williams. Williams is in jail. j The ill of Joseph Benorst, who died J at Kansas City, proves to be a most reK markable document. Although he was | an infidel, Benorst loft all but $4,000 | of his fortune of $150,000 to religious t And charitable organizations. i,. A young man about 25 years old, with KSmooth face, was found murdered in a I box car at Vanda|ia, Mo. Tramp* were gta the car with the corpse. They said • another tramp had killed ihe youug man if? c