Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 October 1899 — NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS.

'Vleorgc Thurston. aged 10 years-, was hilled"* in a football same nt Delphos, Kan. ■ According to the Sehlcsischo Zt-itung a new proposal lias been tint forward regarding the Samian question, ling! aml has offered” Gerihtay compensation if she will renounce JJuvH. Caise F. Askew, trustee of Obion Oouuty, Tennessee, was shot and killed by Lee Patterson, a farmer, who mistook him for a neighbor who had threatened him with violence. Shortly after starting to sail the second race for the America’s cup, the Shamrock was disabled by the breaking of its topmast. The Columbia sailed tile course and was declared the winner. Robert and Maria Chatham have gained their suit in the "Kan Mateo County, California, Superior Court, to be considered the children of the late capitalist* Robert Mills. They \yi!l share in the division of a $300,000 estate. British liberals in Parliament have pledged siipport to the government’s conduct of the war. Oscar a New Orleans muKkfiap, jKorjrqwed a pistol, and return.;** tyimt) ;ip»ot by* Ufife through, tac head w]i'yc , slejit. He then turned the weapon on himself. Domestic inf, li< ity is given ns the cause of the trilgedy. • 1 At Parkersburg,AJ’Va., XJcorge (Kid) thj; Washington, l’a., pugilist froo y’eax Carr, pugilist, in a gWM'&nWt, whs found gufity of voiitbtary manslaughter. The verdict moans Jhom one to fivejrears in the penitentiary.