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

BREVITIES.

The Philippi. W. Va.. Bank was robbed the other night of *IOO.OOO. Captain J. W. Mnrphy. cashier of the Third National Bank of Columbus. Ga., shot and killed the teller. P. T. Shutze and then killed himself. Fritz Plank, the . famous Baireuth Wagnerian ringer. who recently fell thirty feet in the Royal Theater at Carlsruhe. died as the result of bis injuries. The tenth annual convention of the Northwestern I.nnitx'riiien’s Association was held at Minneapolis. Minn., with representatives present from Minnesota. lowa, Wisconsin and the Itokotas. A tube in the boiler of the Government yacht Caperon. lyir*: in the canal locks at Delaware City, exploded. scalding nine asen. three of them so seriously that they will die. At Bt. Louis Charles Dougherty, a lineman, was killed and Edward Elma and William Kaiser were seriously injured while removing a wire which had crimed an electric light wire. A section gang of nine men was run oown on the Delaware, and Western tunnel near Oxford. N. J. Two of the party were instantly killed and a third died shortly after being struck. The other six were seriously injured. The Caban cabinet held a meeting in Havana and made definite arrangements for the establishment of a high school in each province. vnaries Hauptman was fatally stabbed by G. W. Chaffee, a brother of Gen. Chaffee. I’. B. A., after he bad fractured Chaffee's skull with a hammer in a fight at Houston. Texas. ■ An explosion occurred in a dynamite factory at Avigiiana. sixteen miles from Turin. Italy* Ten bodies have been recovered from the mins, and it is feared that other* employed in the factory were kilted. A fire followed the explosion. •