Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1899 — NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS.

John O. Domtcr. superintendent of the American Sugar ltefining Company, died hi New York City. 1 John ReyruerhoffVr, Austrian consul at s Galveston, Texas, died suddenly on |y* Broadway, New York, aged 50. Swift IVothers, of Chicago, are re- ; ported to have purchased the Squire packing houses nt Cambridge, Mass. ; Fire destroyed the plant of the North | Amherst Packing Company at North Amherst. Ohio. Loss' about *IO,OOO, The directors of the Mergentlialer Linotyjie Company have declared a quar- |' terly dividend of 2Vj per cent., payable * lH*e. 28. f Mabini, a Filipino leader Who is said to , Is* the real head of the insurrectionary forces, has tieen captured by (Jen. MacArthnr’s troops. | (Jov. Poyuter of Nebraska has appointed ex-Seuntor Allen to fill the Scull; atorial vacancy caused by the death of f Senator liayward. L At To|K*kn, Kan., the jury brought in : a verdict of guilty of manslaughter in ; the third degree nguinst S. E. Yooinan, who in a quarrel last July shot and I killed David Jackson. | According to a preliminary statement issued by the Board of Agriculture the : total wheat yield in Great Britain for : 18110 is estimated at 05,529,525 bushels, J compared with 73,028,850 bushels last {■ year. • B Henry and Edward 11. Deikc, doing k business in New York as D. F. Deike | A Son, manufacturers of glue and gelai tin, have filed a petition in bankruptcy, I with firm liabilities of $50,240 aud assets of *31,175. The Southern Bailway Company has r issued an order which applies to the | aouthern division requiring all employes | to Mop using cigarettes or resign their p positions. In futnre no one will be employed who smokes cigarettes, j Developments prove that Ben Zedler’s tobacco pipe had boon responsible for ' the mine disaster at Carboiplale, Wash. Foreman Bobert Cox’s men found Zed- - ler’s corncob pipe and a bag containing I tobacco where his corpse was discovered. ■J; It is reported that the Standard Maltlog Company will buihl a mammoth malt- | ing plant in Milwaukee with a capacity •- of 1,000,000 bushels and to cost *OOO,OOO. Commander C. I*. Perkins has lieeu & detached from the revenue cutter Michif gau and ordered to duty in charge of the fifteenth light-house district, St. Louis, the Vandalia Dine, has tendered his resi\igßation. On Jan. 1, 1900, he will as- ****** the auperintendeucy of the Pressed Steel Car Company s plant at McKee s ft gLmW l>m -' r i '->• '• ■* • ' JftOCK, X P- gJA-A, 0 .