Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 November 1899 — BREVITIES. [ARTICLE]

BREVITIES.

Tascott has born arrested again—this time at Vancouver, B. C. The First Tennessee Regiment was mustered out of the service at San Francisco. Frineess Marie Amelia of Leiniugen, sister of the (■rand I bike of Baden, is dead, in her sixty-sixth year. Russian railway bonds of the value of $10,000,000 have Ween purchased by the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York. The United States transport George IV. Elder holds the record for a round trip to Manila, having made the voyage in sixty-one days. Thomas W. Braeher. inventor of thirty different pieces of machinery and articles connected with and used in the hatter's trade, is -dead at his home in New York. The British transjKirt Manchester City sailed from New Orleans for Cape Town. She curries 11,000 mules, to lie used in the South Afriean campaign. Allegheny University astronomers, by - the use of curved plates in photographing meteors, developed a field of 950 square miles. Formerly ninety square miles was all that could be included. Joseph F. McMahon was shot und probably fatally wounded while asleep at his home in Taunlou, Mass. John Gallagher, McMahon’s brother-in-law, it is alleged, did the shooting. \ Otto Blunter, one of the seven survivors of the Grecly exiiedition to the arctic regiou, rescued by a relief party under command of Commodore W. S. Schley in June, 1883, died at San Antonio, Texas. Martin V. Bergen, sou of Councilman Peter V. Bergen, of Princeton, N. J., died from the effects of a hazing at LawrencerlUe. Inflammation of the bowels caused death. Bergen was 13 year old and a freshman. The steamer Lakonin, from Glasgow for Baltimore, passed Caiie Henry, Va., bound in, and signaled that the steamship Manchester Enterprise, which left "Liverpool for Montreal, had foundered at sea and that all hands had been saved. Leather and hides have risen in price suddenly. Oak sole leather of the first quality, used in making shoes, has gone up from 34 to 38 cents a pound. The Porte has addressed notes to the powers reiterating the demand for the suppression of the foreign postofflees in * Tnrkey. It is not believed the demand will be acceded to. A masked mob of seventy-five men attempted to break Into the jail at Covington, Ga., and lynch William Collins. The jail was defended by a force of deputies, it'll/, firiwl in I/. < k,| nmh lVßim/lt wr uiroeo 1 * uw » wwuuuiun men and dispersing the lynchers. > ■ —. * -