Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1899 — BREVITIES, [ARTICLE]

BREVITIES,

Gen. Fa ado, the revolutionary <-nn<lS date, has been elected I'resident of Bolivia. Grant Allen, the author, tv ho had been in ill health for some time past, is dead .in London. President McKinley has issued n proclamation designating Nov. 30 as Thanksgiving day. Mrs.. Stoekwell of New York was robbed of $30,000 in jewelry and s£>,ooo in money at a London hotel. A giant lrrass eomhipe is being formed, which, it is stated, will comprise all the plants in the Naugatwck/'vaHey. Connecticut. The main office will be in New York. The Paris Sieele says that M. Jules Gambon, Frbncb- ambassador to the United States. will not go to Vienna to represent France, tis has been reported, hut vvill return to Washington. The Court of Apjeals at Albany, N. Y., has affirmed the verdict of conviction in the earn' of Howard Benliam, the banker of Batavia, sentenced to death for wife murder, and he will be reseidenced. Telegrams , from Brussels annotmee that in the Transvaal legation circle it is stated that France and Russia will not permit the annexation of the Transvaal and Orange Free State to England. Russia, it has been learned, has at last agreed to arbitrate with the United State* the claim resulting from the seizure of sealers in the Bering Sen. which has been pending for about eight years. At the National Hereford Association show at Kansas City. John Sparks of Reno, Nev.. paid $2,500 for Armour Rose, a blooded Hereford heifer. This ia the highest price ever paid for a Hereford heifer. . - Murray Gilbert, a welt-known musician. shot and killed Janie Hall, aged 25, and then blew out his own brains in a aaloou at Paducah, Ky. The Kansas City and Eldorado Railroad has been sold to the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad Company for the amount of its bonded indebtedness. $223,000. • . N After a voyage o i twenty-eight days from Cape Nome,'during Which two men died from starvation and others Mere half crazed from want of food and water, the schooner Here arrived at Seattle with nearly 800 pasaeagers on board. Bfeif *, '