Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 August 1899 — NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS.

Forty thousand persons are said to have died from famine on the east coast of Africa. Dock laborers on strike at Rouen renewed their rioting and many arrests were made. An English officer claims to have,dissevered the mosquito that spreads malaria. It hails from South Africa. The Khedive of Egypt has decided to take the “cure" at Craefenburg, Silesia, Where he will remain several weeks! Four thousand masons in Havana held • conference at which a strike wag •greed upon. They asked $3.50 a day for ordinary work and $4.50 for special work. The towns of southeastern Alaska have issued- a call for a territorial convention to be'held at .Juneau Oct. 9. The convention will be composed of seventy delegates. . Tile rural guard and a number of Cuban soldiers had a conflict the other night at Cuevitas, a small town near Santiago de Cuba, in which live were killed and ten wounded. Mexican troops under Gen. Torres defeated the Yaquis in three sharp engagements before Viean. Two Mexicans were killed and 22 wounded, while the Yaqui loss was 40 killed. C Llewellyn Stout, who killed Harvey 11. Wurster, a telegraph operator and station agent, on the Philadelphia and Reading Railway, was banged in the jail at Easton, Pa. < The Shanghai Mercury publishes a communication from Pekin to the effect that the Emperor has developed symp- " toms of insanity. ■ Henderson Pierson, living near Davenport, Tex., in a fit of jealous rage shot and killed his wife and her mother. The murderer was arrested by hia neighbors and lodged in jail. The English steamship Nettleton, loaded with coal, from Norfolk, Va., has been wrecked on Marica Island, between Rio and Montevideo. Thft, crew waa saved by the United*Stat»» warship Montgomery.