Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1899 — NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS.

Ou the run down from Boston to Hampton ltomls the battleship Kentucky : broke oil records for ships of her class. The average speed was fifteen knots an hour. Col. George It. Davis, most prominently known for his official connection with the World's Fair as director general, died at his home in Chicago of palpitation of the heart. Mnj. Gen. Miles, commanding the army, has returned to Washington after a tour of inspection, which included the fortifications ou the I‘ueific coast and the Gulf of Mexico. Ezra Moore shot and killed Constable William Smith and seriously wounded l>oputy Sheriff 4. T. Conklin, who tried to levy on an execution at his home near Chicago Junction, Ohio. At Sedalin, Mo., the jury in the ease of James 11. McManigal, charged with the murder of Capt. Thomas C. Young of Lexington, Mo., Sept. 28, 1898, brought ' in a verdict of acquittal. U* Charles Coghlan. the actor, who hod s Imh-u ill at Galveston, Texas, since Oct. 80, with acute gastritis, is dead. Mr. Coghlan was an actor and dramatist of ; ability, and was born in London in 1848. At .Fulton, Ivy., Flay Goldsby was shot : nud killed by John T. Moore. Both ' were clerks in the United States mail ser- ; vice. The trouble grew out of n dispute j; over a vucant run. Moore gave himself flip. g After killing the late Cherokee treaty, the Cherokee council took it up again the ?! next day and passed'the bill, extending I 5 the time for ratification by Congress and | asking that body to make certain changes ■ in the document. The Lakes of Killurney. part of the Muekross estate, were sold at private : sale at Dublin. A Dublin states that Lord Iveagli Guineas, the f pale-ale brewer, was the purchaser. The f reported price is £30,000. The Studebaker Manufacturing Company of Chicago and South Bend, I ml., has shipped 300 wagons to South Africa for the British army. I* W. J. Bryan has rented his home in f WfP I** 1 ** Neb., for the whiter, and he and { his family will spent the next three } months in Texas and northern Califor'V Jii;|. The Chicago department battled hard : with a fierce blaze in the Morse & John- " son storage warehouse at 182 Kinzie street, which, after nearly two hours' fighting. was subdued at a loss estimated