Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 September 1899 — BREVITIES. [ARTICLE]

BREVITIES.

11 enrv and Alfred Stockman were killed at 11 nuiel City, (). T„ by the explosion of dynamite. The residence of Samuel B. Sexton at llyde Dark, X. Y., was destroyed by tire. The loss is sflo,<HH(. John Blanchard, for nine years editor in chief of the Minneapolis Times, died, after an illness of several months, aged 57 J. T. Sargent, editor of the Dakota Herald and a prominent Demoemtie politician, dropped dead of apoplexy at Yankton, S. D. At Washington, I>. Miss Alice Knott iwis found dead in Inal, having been asphyxiated. A pet parrot hail turned on .the gas. Malcom T. MaeAnley. formerly bookkeeper for the American Exchange Bank of Duluth, Minti.. hits been indicted by the grand jury for forgery. W est-boftnd Panhandle passenger train Mo. II ran down and instantly killed Mrs. Harrison McYefy and three children at a crossing east of Logansport, I nil. William White of St. Louis, 50 years of age, shot and fatally wounded Mrs. Alice Bremser, and then tried, unsuccessfully, to end his own life. Jealousy was the cause of the tragedy. A cyclone swept over Bermuda recently. Houses were blown down and others were unroofed. No lives were lost, hut heavy damage was done to public and , private property, fruit and cedar trees. Application lias been made for a new trial in the case of William A. E. Moore, who last year was sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment for blackmailing and assaulting Martin Mahon, a hotelkeeper.of New York. Lizzie I’rue. u young woman formerly . of Wavorly, lowa, attempted to commit suicide at San Francisco. Disappointment in love is thought to be the cause. The flauce of the girl is lielieved to lie Bert Ralston. A Hamilton. Ohio, firm has shipped to Yokohama for the Japanese Government equipment for one of the finest paper mills iu the world. Dr. Nehemin Nickerson of Meriden, Conn., says that in his practice he administers chloroform to end the suffering of patients who arc ill beyond the hope . of recovery. According to a Washington dispatch to the Memphis Commercial-Appeal Chief Justice Chambers of Samoa has handed his resignation to the President, to take effect as soon as the powers can agree