Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1900 — Telegraphic Brevities. [ARTICLE]

Telegraphic Brevities.

European officers are constantly joining the Boer forces. George Gallagher and Nellie Walsh, New York, were killed by gas. A German general will be asked to re- I organize the army of Greece. The cost of the ocean cables so far constructed exceeds $250,000,000. Chicago Northwestern University wants $2,000,000 for new buildings. Mangie Hooker, 25, suffocated at Covington, Ky., from a lamp exploding. Cars of American p.Atern have been adopted for Paris’ underground electric road. The breweries of Milwaukee and Chicago made during the past year 643,000 barrels of beer. In the sixteen years ended July 1; 1899, there landed at New York, 476,149 Irish persons. A broker asserts that the Christmas tips in Wall street amount annually to nearly $500,000. “Optical telegraphy,” an Italian invention, has been adopted for testing in the Mexican army.