Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 December 1899 — BREVITIES. [ARTICLE]

BREVITIES.

At Omaha George NV. Archibald, aecuwtHl of stealing $3.01 K) from the Pacific Express Company, was acquitted. Nearly 100,000 employes of the New Xiugluiul cotton mills have been notified of a 10 per cent advance in wages. The American garrison of 20*• at Vigan, Luzon, repulsed an attack of .SOU Filipinos, killing 35. The Americans lost eight killed, Gen. Pleasanton Porter was selected as chief of the Creek Nation. The full bloods, who had protested against the general’s selection, made no demonstration. H. C. Frick has resigned the position of chairman of the board of managers of the Carnegie Steel Company of Pittsburg, Pa. His successor has not yet been named. T. A.'TJTffiff of Chicago has bought the, plant of the Kansas City Car and Foundry. Company and promises to make it one of the large car-wh«(d foundries of the country. Samuel E. George, member of the firm of P. T. George & Co. of Baltimore, made an assignment for the benefit of his creditors. Ilis liabilities are estimated at $200,000. Rev. Richard Hassell, a pioneer Congregational minister of Illinois and Wisconsin, died .at Seattle, Wash., of senile decay, aged 70 years. He settled in Illinois in 1842. Seven robbers entered the village of Cornell, 111., and by the use of nitroglycerin ble wopen the sale of the Cornell Batik and secured over $5,000 in money and also many valuable papers. J. O. Darragh. president of the wrecked Kansas City Safe Deposit and Savings Bank, who was convicted in 1807 and sentenced to two years in the penitentiary, has been granted a new trial. The Lowell Manufacturing and Bigelow Carpet eoaipanies, two of tile largest carpet manufacturing concerns in New England, voted to consolidate under the laws of Massachusetts. The capital Stock of the new company is $4,030,000. Mrs. Vanata Colfy of Leavenworth, Kan., aged (iO, was burned to death, her clothing catching fire while she whs getting supper. Postmaster and Express Agent 11. B. Fellows of Scnrsdaie, on the line of the Harlem Railroad. New York, died from a pistol shot wound inflicted by an unknown assassin. A.collision at (Riaruntine, New York \ . harbor, sunk the steamer Lasseil, loaded with Coffee, held by the health authori- , ties owing to bubonic plague on b<>ard. The boat was struck by the Red Star line