Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1900 — BREVITIES. [ARTICLE]

BREVITIES.

.The Lawton fund has reached $90,400. Fire destroyed the business portion of Winfield, Kan. Loss $125,000. Rear Admiral Bradford .estimates the cost of a Pacific cable at $10,000,000. Russia will loan the Shah 22,000,000 rubles, giving the Czar control of Persia. Miss Lydia Cox starved herself to death at Kokomo, Ind., to expiate the sins of the world. Capt. W. C. Neville of the marine corps has been appointed governor of Tutuilu island. King Alexander has appointed his father. ex-King Milan, a general in the Serx iau army. The will of Thomas Eggleston, filed at New York, leaves $1,000,000 to the Legiotl of Honor. Bulgaria is expected to declare its independence of Turkey Feb. 19, with the approval of Russia and Austria. Rev. Dr. W. W. Eddy, for more than forty-eight years a missionary in Syria, died at Beyroot from heart disease. Seven hundred employes in the Montreal Cotton Company’s mill at Valley Field, Canada, have gone out on strike, an advance iu wages having been refused. Dr.- Charles Franklin Dnitbnr, LL. D., died at Cambridge, Mass., aged (><S years, •f old age and lung troubles. He was professor of political economy in Harvard University. The Marquis of Qiieensberry, who was boru July 20, 1844. and succeeded to the title in 1858, is dead in Englund. The name of the Marquis of Qiieeiisberry has long been associated with the boxing rules of which he was the author. The city of Mobile, Ala., through Mayor Bush, has taken possession of the new system of city water works, paying the contractors, M. T. Ix'wpian & Co., in full. The system cost, including a 10,-GOO.OOO-gallon reservoir, $528,000. AdXcniblyman “Tim”" Sulllvnn, > the prize-fight promoter, proposes to introduce in-the New York Assembly a bill to prohibit football games. Ida de Puy, a New York artist, names his father as co-respondent in a suit for divorce which he brought against his wife, Fannie. The son will ask-for $50,000 damages from his father. Capt. A. W. Gillniamsuiierintcndent of the Goodrich Transput nt ion Company, and one of th» ififMjyldel.v knpw* men on the lakes» med viM-.vjl>ajd<legly<r>f apoplexy on a Chicago and Northwestern train as it was approaching Manitowoc.