Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1899 — NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS.

Citizens of Minnesota sent a black bear p to Admiral Dewey for a Christmas prest ent. The Anchor, Line steamship Tainui was ; slightly damaged in a collision in the River Clyde. J., M. Berry's flour ami meal mill at ' Augusta, Ga., was destroyed by tire. Loss $115,000. insurance $85,000, ' At Tiffin, Ohio, Capt. R. B. Bever fell from a scaffold, breaking twelve bones. I He also received fatal internal injuries. pC By telegraph and 1,700 miles apart, Miss Lizzie Ilnmmons of Winchester, Ky.. and Trooper Sam Wheeler of Fort Wingate, N. M., were made one the other day. C A report has reached Manila that Col. Wilder, who is in Northern Luzon, sends word of the death of Aguinaldo's wife I While in flight with the reltel leader be- ’ fore the pursuing Americans. The most disastrous explosion in the ft history of the coke region occurred at the Bramell mines at Uniontown. Pa., in which thirty-two men lost their lives and many others were badly injured. g ■' lhe directors of the Great Northern Railway Company have awarded the cou5 tract for the construction at Quebec of ' a 1,000,000-busbel elevator at ,a cost of L. $250,000 to Chapman & Co. of Buffalo. U, The worst wreck for many years took place off Cai»e Hatteras. The British “ tramp steamer Ariosto struck on a shoal nix miles south of Hatteras life-saving and twenty-one of her crow lost 6 their lives. c The Mississippi Valley Lumberman t says that the lumber cut in Minueapolis this year was 594.373.009 feet, more p; than was ever ent in a year lx-fore in that or any other city, and a gain of 1,250,000 feet over last year. I Gov. Poynter of Nebraska has instruct|ed the prosecuting attorney of Sarpy to l«egin proceedings against the two reg- . ulars at Fort Crook who were implicated 'in the shooting and killing of a deserter from that post several weeks ago. At San Francisco, Cal.. John Lennon, r a teamster, was found deml in a house -on the San Jose road, ami it is believed | he was murdered. Kh- Peter J. Holbert, an electrician at Jacksonville, Fla., shot his wife and then turned the weapon on himself. inflicting wounds from which he died. Mrs. HolJudge De Haven, in the United Stales I-, District Court at San Francisco, has deK tided that minors over 18 years do not Kiequire the consent of their parents to Knifist in the navy, and when once enlist-B-i they must serve their term.