Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1900 — NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS.

Atleiupts to form an oyster trust havifallen through. The Davis iron works al Denver. Colo,, burned. Loss SIOO,(MtU, insured. • .fudge William I‘. I low laud died of pneumonia at Jefferson. Ohio, aged 68 years. Natives of the Admiralty Islands Rilled and ate the crew and fifteen men of a British tratling schooner, Ada Behan has signed contracts with Klaw and Erlanger for a ten weeks' tour, beginning at Lord's Opera House. Balti: more. March 12. In the annual contest in debate for the ’94l.memoriii 1 prize al Cornell I rank 11. Hafner of Farmington. N. Y. v was awarded the honor of first place. At Montrose. Fa.. Cornelius Shew ami Janies J. Eagan, the murderers of Jackson Pepper, an aged and wealthy farmer of Kush Township, were hanged. A man giving his name as L. D. Chap-, man of Chicago was found at the Farm ers* Hotel. Columbus. Ohio, in an uucon‘scions condition, evidently from morphine poisonjug. He died shortly afterward. Henry C. Pavne, national Republican committeeman of Wisconsin., has received a letter from Elilitt Boot. Secretary of War, in which Mr. Boot says he is not and will not be a candidate for the office of Vice-President. Mayor Samuel M. Jones, of Toledo, ami Albert S. Dulin, of Philadelphia, have chartered the Association of Altruists and selected Moorestown. N. J., near Philadelphia, for the site of a co operative communistic colony. The torpedo boat destroyer Goldsborough was given another trial mi the Columbia river nt Portland. Oro,, by the Wolff & Sewicker iron works. During a short run she devolol>ed a speed close to thirty-three miles an hour. Bev. Charles M. Sheldon, author of •’ln His. Steps” ami other religious novels, has rewived notice from London to the effect that his work. “In His Steps," has been dramatized, and will shortly be put upon the stage in London. Mme. Bazaine. widow of the famous French marshal, who died some years ago in exile in Spain, died at a private : KbSpltaf fff Thret 'ity wF-Mex+eo-.- —. . The loving cup of silver, made from the melted dimes' contributed by over 70,000 Americans, the majority of whom were children, was presented to Admiral Dewey at Washington. William Wasco, a Hungarian, was hanged in the yard of the county court . house at Pittsburg. The crime for which ■ Wasco ww executed was the murder of Annie Sestak. a Hungarian girl, who had refused to marry him.