Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1900 — NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS.

Brig. Gen. Charles W. Squires died at St. Ixmis, aged 60. Premier Pelloux wants Italy to spend C2.(MX),(KX) for seventy-live new batteries. Secretary of the Navy John D. Long has been elected president of the Massachusetts Total Abstinence Society, Willinin F. Miller, who conducted the "gct-rich-quick’' Franklin syndicate in Brooklyn, has been located in Canada. The author of a pamphlet insulting Qneen Victoria has Ih*cii sent to prison lor three months by a French court. Brig. Gen. Thaddeus 11. Stanton, former paymaster general of the United States army, known as the "lighting paymuter,” died at Omaha. Ruskin's friends have declined a grave in Westminster Abbey for the poet's remains. He will bi* buried in Couiston churchyard, as he requested. The indictment against John Whalleu of Louisville, charging him with attempting to brilaySenator S. Ji. ILtrroll. has been quashed in rhe Franklin Circuit Court at Frankfort. Ky. Gov. Nash of Ohio has received a letter from his stepsou. Davj|l W. Deshler, in Corea, announcing that he lias been married in Japan to a Japanese woman of rank. The news is a complete surprise. Albert G. Spalding has resigned from the presidency of the American Bicycle Company. At a special meeting of the board of directors R. L. Coleman, formerly preaident of the Western wheel was elected as his successor. Gotham’s latest proposed combine is a consolidation of all gas. electric light and traction systems under Rockefeller control. Guy Dennett, aged 21 years, a nephew of President Dole of Hawaii, attempted suicide at Denver by cutting his wrist with a knife in a rooming house. He was out of money and despondent. ♦ Jefferson Davis Storts, a well known attorney and due of the picturesque characters of St. Ixiuis, died of injuries received by falling from a street car. He was a member of the Missouri Legisla ’sure in 1883. ■■■