Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1900 — NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS.

It is said Germany will not join France iu the movement to reopen the Egyptian question. ’ 8- S. E. Phinney, the leading shoe .dealer of Akron, Ohio, made an assignment. Assets, liabilities, 852.000. Fire at Tampico. Movico. destroyed eleven retail and one wholesale business houses. Loss between SXPO,<MHt and SL--000,000, partly covered by insurance in English companies. Thomas 11. Bard, of Ventura County, the millionaire land owner and oil opera ' tor. has been elected by the Republicans of California as United States Senator to succeed Stephen M. White. T. W. Hugo, Republican, was elected Mayor of Duluth. Minn., by the small majority of seven votes over Henry Truelsen, Democrat People's nominee. The City Pouncil is Republican. James B. Neal, who was at one time a wealthy and prominent florist in New Isodk, eoumiitteii silicide in Central I’ark by sw allowing carbolic acid. He lost his business through fitiaucisii reverses. The worst wind and snowstorm ever known in Montana came the other morning. Much damage was dune to the lighter class of buildings and to telephone and electric light wires. No fatalities are reported. 3 Between seventy-five and eighty women employed in the paint and labeling department of Libby, McNeil A Libby's establishment at the Chicago stock yards have struck because of a contemplated reduction in the wage scale. • From Nagoya. Japan, cymes news of a terrible tire whereby thirty-one Japanese girls. employed at a spinning mill at Kwyumura. Award prefecture, were kill- ’ Six were severely wounded and a numlter more or less injured. S > Five -business buildings in Lit tie Rock, Ark., were burned. Losses on stocks ‘ and buildings, $2155,000: insurance. s2ol*,The sixteenth annual convention of the ! Master Painters and IJecorators of the r 'United States o|wmsl at Washington, IX *• C. Reports of the officers show the or- ; ganization to be jn excellent condition. The low* house of the Ohio Ix-gi iature has passed a bill to prohibit the dest ecrution of the American flag. •f the G. A. R.. the army and navy, ftigfate militia and patriotic orders are 4>XATlip< I‘<l. ’ •