Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1899 — BREVITIES. [ARTICLE]

BREVITIES.

Dreyfus is said to be writing a book. Stanley Pearson, superintendent of Southland College, is dead at Helena, Ark., aged 50. Cousul Willshire Butterfield, Oiuahn, Neb., author of several widely read historieal works, is dead. John Sleeper Clarke, the celebrated actor and theatrical manager, is dead ut London, aged 04 years. Gen. Henry Ileth, the Confederate chieftain and historian, died at Washington of Bright’s disease, .aged 74. W. Cummings, president of the State Bank of Effingham. Ivan., was found dead in bed. He was f>.~> years old. At Union City, Tt un., T. It. Bond shot and seriously wounded M. 10. Chambers. 'Hie trouble grew out of a lawsuit. A girl baby was born to Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt at New York. She is the secoud child born to the young couple. Gen. Ludlow has issued a proclamation to the people of Havana warning labor agitators and denouncing the proposed general strike as an iniquitous conspiracy. A special from the Choyeiiue-SiJVix agency in Nebraska says there is great excitement over the murder of Long Hu-, ley, a Cheyenne river Simix, by Buddy, a squaw man. A dispatch has been received from Manila by the War Department stating that Gen. Snyder attacked the position of the insurgents five miles west of Cebu and destroyed seven forts. Her. C. S. Dudley, for five years pastor of Centenary M. E. Church at Beatrice, Neb., has been transferred by Bishop Warren to be pastor of the Oakland M. E. Church, Chicago. A thrashing engine exploded on the farm of Henry Brandt, in Red Rock township, S. 1).. killing Brandt instantly, falully injuring Fred Lnnt-e and seriously burning Robert Smith. All innovation in American newspaper methods has been made by the Germania of Milwaukee, which announces that it has employed Dr. Duemling. of the Lutheran College at Laporte. Ind.. as censor. Members of the Southern Stove Manufacturers’ Association met in Chattanooga. Teua., ami advanced prices 5 per cent. This makes an inert use of lib per cent brer the prices of stoves a year ago. ~ In New Ydsk, H. J. Sehloss, manufuctarer of clothing, has filed a petition in bankruptcy,. Liabilities, $735,102: no as.As the Kev. E. A. Erwin and John Stanfield were riding along n country road uear Guthrie, G. T„ lightning from f. a clear sky killed Stanfield and hi* horse and the Itev. Mr. Erwin's horse! A head-end collision occurred on the Belle Plaine and Muchakinock extension, seven miles southeast of Oshaloosu, lowa. kU'Jug four trnin hands und injuring seri■ously ten others. The trains case together asia result of an error in orders.