Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 September 1899 — BREVITIES. [ARTICLE]

BREVITIES.

Mrs. Josephine Kuder, a member of the Arion Singing Society Society of New | York, died suddenly of heart disease on the Arion's special train east bound from Denver. Bev. 11. R. Moseley, D. D., of Florence, S. C., has resigned his pastorate and will after Oct. 1 take charge of Baptist missionary work in Cuba for the American Home Missionary Society. Rioting broke out at Cleveland in connection with the strike on the lines of the Big Consolidated Railway, and four cars were nearly demolished, while the crews were compelled by a mob to tlee for their lives. J. B. Ransdell, Democrat, has been elected to Congress in the Fifth Louisiana district. The new battleship Alabama made a record of 17.02 knots an hour at her. builders' trial. The United States secret service has discovered a new counterfeit $2 treasury note of the series of 18111. Mrs. Catherine Parr-Trail), the oldest Canadian authoress, died in her eightyninth year, at Lakefield. Ont. The steamer San Salvador, in leaving Rio Janeiro, came into collision with the United States-cruiser Montgomery, causing some damage. Gen. Jiminez, leader of Santo Domingan revolutionists, has been placed under arrest at Santiago by Gen, Leonard Wood, the American military governor. (’apt. James E. Eastman, Second artillery, died at Chase's Lake, near Glenfield* N. Y„ from the effects of an attack of Cuban fever contracted during the campaign. William Downey, indicted by the grand Jury at Jefferson City, Mo., in 1897, for complicity in a postoffice robbery at Holt's Summit, that State, was arrested at Alliance, Ohio, At Huntington. W. Va., Henry Lusher, while dreaming that he was engaged in a fight with burglars, pounded his roommate seriously ami then fell down a flight of stairs, breaking several bones. At Bridgeport. Conn., the warehouse and junk of M. 11. Rogera was destroyed by fire, causing a loss of neizly $49.U00. Loo Hee Ben was found dead in his laundry in New York with a little hole over his heart. His friends say that he was murdered. It is believed to be a highbinder crime. The greatest fire in the history of Yokohama occurred recently when a square mile of buildings was destroyed and aix- , teen lives lost. The property loss is estimated at between $5,000,000 and $6,000,00*