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

BREVITIES.

The National Bank of Port Jervis, K- Y, has suspended. One person in every 3»x) is buried alive, ■mediae to the statements of a New York physician. Samuel ••otnpers has been unanimously re-elected President of the American Pederatioa of Labor. Germany is said to be anxious to buy St. Thnnrri, Danish West Indies, for a ■aval coaling station. The Columbian Catholic summer ■chooi aril! be held at Detroit from July--10 to Aug. 1 next year. The Government of the United States has adopted “Puerto Rfco” as the official spelling of the name of that island. San Jose has been having a two days' celebration of the golden jubilee of the fteondxng of California's government. The Alhambra, the famous convention hail of Symcnse. N. Y.. was destroyed by Sr*. The loss amounts to $50,000. At Richmond. V*.. United States Senator Thorn as Martin was re-elected for the term beginning March 4, 1901, by both hnuarj of the Assembly, acting separately. The British and American ministers at The Hague have asked permission to retire to Antwerp with a view of avoiding personal unpleasantness owing to the ■nti-Engfisb attitude of the Dutch. Antone GaDcsi. who was buried in the sMwtide at Silver Plume. Colo., last winter and was dug out alive, was killed within thirty feet of the scene by smoking while loading dynamite cartridges. The editorship of Harper’s Bazar has been offered to and accepted by Miss Bnabeth G. Jordan, formerly of Milwanfcee, who has been connected editormOy tor eight years with the New York Korman S. Pevarill has been arrested at Rochester. N. Y„ for enlisting men for the British aervic* in South Africa. A pititinn was filed by the Circuit Chart at Baltimore for the appointment sf a receiver toe the Columbian Iron "Wort* and Dry-liock Company, of -rtach far mi i; Mayor William T. Malster Whrie Waff street speculator bewailed the lasses by the shrinkage in the value of the storta they held, every one of them

EA&TERN. Col. Julias Walser Adams died at Brooklyn, aged 87 years. He was the pioneer engineer of the Brooklyn bridge. Fire completely destroyed the school annex building of St. Michael’s orphan asylum on Pius street, Pittsburg. Loss $90,000, insurance $50,000. The Republican national convention that is to meet next summer goes to Philadelphia. The convention will be held on Tuesday, June 10 next. Henry Landis, secretary of the Baltimore Board of Trade, committed suicide at the Union Protestant idttrmary by jumping from a third-story window. Three persons were burned to death and one seriously injured at a fire that occurred in a dilapidated tenement in the Williamsburg district of Brooklyn, N. Y. Lieut. Thomas ,M. Brumby, Admiral Dewey's flag lieutenant while the admiral was in command of the Asiatic station, died of typhoid fever at the Garfield hospital in Washington. A dispatch from Meriden, Conn., announces the financial embarrassment of the old carriage hardware house of the H. D. Smith company of Stonington, capitalized at $200,000. A general advance of 10 per cent to the 1,000 employes of the Bessemer steel department has been granted by the Jones & Laughlins Iron and Steel Company of Pittsburg, to take effect Jan. 1. Fire started in a big New York factory building. The flames spread with great rapidity and there was a terrific panic in many of the surrounding tenements. The loss will amount to about $75,000. What is probably the largest cargo of sugar which has ever arrived at Philadelphia on a single vessel came on the British steamship India from Samarang. It consists of 7,92(5 tons of cane sugar and is valued at over $500,000. J. Arnold Parsons, 23 years old, was literally blown to pieces at the United States slate quarry at Pen Argyll, Pa. Parsons was preparing to set off a blast when powder that had been scattered by the high wind became ignited. Chester W. Kingsley, former Mayor of Cambridge, Mass., has presented Brown University, Providence, R. 1., with a gift of $25,000. This sum is a contribution toward the $2,000,000 endowment fund which it is expected will be completed in 1900.