Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1899 — Odd and Ends. [ARTICLE]

Odd and Ends.

Louisville school board condemns golf skirts. Georgia’s prohibition bill was killed in the Senate. Mountain Valley Hotel, Hot Springs, Ark., burned. 1 Augusta. Ky., school building, worth $20,000, burned. Charles Grey, Wellston, 0., blown to atoms in a mine. James McConnell, editor of the Philadelphia Star, is dead. John Fritz. Celina, 0.. fatally stabbed his wife in the breast.

Rumored that the P.. C. & T. has been acquired by the B. & Q. Edison and Columbus, 0., electric light plants will consolidate. Half the business portion of Cumby, Tex., burned. Ix>ss $25,000. Eight firemen. Montgomery, Ala., were injured by a gasoline explosion. Union Pacific people deny that the Northwestern has leased tfiat road. Two men were asphyxiated by gas in a little shoe repairing shop in Brooklyn. Mexicans are still pursuing the Maya Indians. A long campaign is expected. Mayor Robinson, Canton, 0., paid $l3O for two bloodhounds, Chattanooga, Tenn. Chicagoans arc figuring for cheaper coal by having it brought via water from Erie. Pa. Se’-ls Bros.’ circus may remove headquarters to Bridgeport. Conn., from Columbus, Ohio. Texas health board has established quarantine at Galveston against ships from Santos, Brazil, where plague exists. Willis J. Abbot, well known in newspaper circles, will take charge of the press bureau of the Democratic national committee. Minnesota railroads have concluded contracts for the delivery of 600,000,000 feet’ of pine logs to mills in the vicinity of Dublin. The pilot boat "James Gordon Bennett was struck by a dummy shell fired from the Sandy Hook proving ground and badly damaged. Pete Thompson was killed at El Rentfl Okla., by John Curtis? sou of Robers Curtis, a wealthy white man, who married into ,the Caddo Indian tribe. Jailer Wm. Shockley and his son, Harry Shockley, Columbus, Ohio, were indieted by the United States grand jury on the charge of aiding Capt. 1. T. Jobe to escape from jail. United States will haveau irrigation exhibit at the Paris .sfcow. Cotton mills of New Hampshire have increased wages 10- per cent. Conductor Howard, Newark. 0., was killed in a collision near Mansfield. Engineer Peterman badly Injured. Many negroes are said, to have been doped into leaving for Mlssis?F* e tomi<rant .Steph C. -~>s. fhnhder of the Royal BqkftJß»ler Company, died in New-bdablfr wfe several times a mil- ' ’• -a * ‘