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

Odds and Ends.

Salem Mason. 108. colored, is dead, Nashville. Tenn. Several stores. Cleveland, Tenn., burned. Loss $35,000. Thomas Peak was killed in a row at Sweetwater, Tenn. Zinc trust is said to be forming with $100,000,000 capital. Thieves got $1,500 at Pollard Bros.’ store. Newhurne. Ala. James Crocker’s store, Huntsville, Ala., burned. Loss $7,000. Engineer Calloway was killed in a wreck. Clarendon, Texas. Thread manufacturers have advanced prices 10 cents a dozen spools. Society of ethical culture in New York has begun a crusade against vice. Chas. Yocum, Harrodsburg. Ky, accidentally shot and killed his wife. Sousa's band will attend the Paris exposition as the official American band. Cunningham A Co.’s sugar estate burned at Sngarland, Texas. Loss SBO,OOO. Indian leaders are said to want to send troops to the Cape to fight against the Boers. Henry Oppenheimer, 19, New York, leaped from a burning building and was killed. Geo. M. Settle, dry goods merchants, Paris. Texas, has failed. Liabilities $90,000. Smooth thief relieved Sam Johnson, a Cincinnati truck farmer, of $4,000 in Spanish war bonds. Paterson. N. J, will erect a $15,000 bronze statue, life size, of the late VicePresident Hobart. Wm. Baldwin. 23, drowned kt Newport. Ky. He was the champion bag puncher of Kentucky. New municipal buildings at Norwich, England, are proposed by the corporation at a cost of £IOO,OOO. Britain gains a year from the little tax which falls on patent medicines, Pills. liver cures and ointments. In Santiago in the better class of houses, the bedsteads are surrounded with a dose kind of netting, beginning at the floor and gathered at the top. This is intended as a protection against tarantulas. Mexico and China hare completed at Washington a general treaty of trade, navigation and immigration. Negro woman and her two children were found dead from smallpox in Chatham County, North Carolina. 7 Abraham K. Lefever, a prominent Lancaster County. Pa, farmer, died after terrible suffering, with hydrophobia. The Council of Jewish Women will hold its second triennial meeting in Cleveland. Ohio, from March 4 to 11. 1900. Bubonic plague is said to have made its appearance in Noumea, capital of the French penal colony of New Caledonu