Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 September 1899 — NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS.

Charles L. Bailey, Harrisburg, Pa., .president of the Central iron works, is .Jdead, aged 77 years. ' The State Department at Washington ’has been informed that a revolution has ibroken ont in Venezuela. I Alfred Henderson, Spring Lake, N. J., S Ahead of the seed firm of Peter Henderson & Co., is dead, aged 50 years. . president Lou bet has issued a decree I convoking the French senate to sit as a Thigh court to hear charges of treason Paul Deroulede and bis associwkttes. Attorney General George B. Peters of Tenn., was injured while makk Ing « tour of inspection of the Chicago Kiatock yards. He fell through a shaft and 1 fractured his skull. .Freight No. 91 on the Norfolk and - "Western road broke in two and the sec<tions came together in Dingess’ tunnel, 1 .near Williamson, W. Va. Three trainmcn and four tramps were killed. | The steamer Sequoia, from Clipperton reports that scurvy is causing « xnueh distress there. Five men have sucfeetunbed to the disease and twenty-three ‘ others are afflicted with the malady. | Herman Groth of Chicago was found dead in his room. Gas was escaping r, ; from a jet turned partly on. It is suppoaed he committed suicide. Groth was 50 years old and had been ill for some time. Germany is reported to have purchased 1,000 square leagues of territory in Bra- . Bishop Pierce, Episcopal bishop of ArgMtaasas, Aied at Fayetteville, Ark. Bishop JJ?ieree was one of the oldest members of the Episcopal Church in this country. He bad for more than a quarter of a century H&eien bishop of Arkansas. The North German Lloyd steamer KaiWilhelm der Grosse arrived at New York from Bremen, Southampton and after a record passage of fire