Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1900 — Brief News Items. [ARTICLE]

Brief News Items.

Boers say the British are using ar-mor-piercing shells. Henry J. Fitzgerald’s trunk factory, Chicago, burned. Loss $75,000. Bandits in a private steamer robbed the priests at Nam-noi, China, of $5,000 worth of valuables. Bequests made to priests for saying masses for-the repose of the soul are Ruble to a legacy tax. The War and Interior Departments will combine to keep order among the Iniians in western Colorado.