Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1900 — NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS.

Berlin thinks England is seeking to force a naval war with Germany. A. W. Perry, editor of Perry's Musical Magazine, is dead at Sedalia, Mo., aged 71. Two ships foundered off tin l Allanic eoust near Norfolk, seven or more lives being lost. The President has nominated Brig. Gen. Harrison Gray Olis to be a major general, by brevet. The fire and police board of Denver, Colo., has ordered the chief of police to close all the gambling houses in that city. Bam Johnson, who was leading low comedian in Sir Henry Irving’s company for many years, is dead in London. St. Petersburg newspapers urge the Government to take advantage of England's “adversity" mid settle old scores. Andrew Carnegie, Jr., of, Pittsburg, nephew of Andrew Carnegie, the steel king, and Miss Bertha Sherlock were married at Clifton, near Cincinnati. Mareehale MacMahon. Duchess of Magenta, widow of Mawchai Patrick Maurice MacMahon, second president of the third republic of France, died in Paris, aged 71. A fatal d yuamite explosion occurred in the Union Pacific gravid pits at Sherman. Two men were killed and two fatally . hurt. The men were thawing dynamite with hot water. Attorneys for Republican and Democratic contestants for State offices in Kentucky have agreed that there shall be a speedy trial in the courts on an agreed case involving all of the issues. Edwin Gonld, Cyrus Field Judson, Joseph Leiter and other capitalists are behind a $20,000,000 automobile company, which pro|H»ses to contest the New York field and later other cities with the surface railroads. » Mias Mary Ixionard Baker, only daughter of United States Senator Lucien Baker, was married to Dr. Charles Henry Tighlman Lowndes, surgeon iu the United States navy, at her parents' home in Lea ven worth, Kan. At Haverhill, Mass., a slight fire in the shoe factory of Thayer, Maguire & Field started the automatic sprinklers. The water was not turned off and everything was flooded. The damage from water is estimated at SIOO,OOO. Jacob Newman and David Duncan went to Shelbyville, Ind., from Greenfield. In a quarrel that arose Dunean shot Newman through the lungs, killing him. While en route to prison Duncan tried to kill Officer James Magill. At Jefferson City, Mo., the Supreme £ourt en banc, in an opinion by Judge Robinson, declared the department store law passed by the last Legislature unconstitutional and void. The reason given Is that it is clearly class legislation. Dr. Leslie E. Keeley of Dwight. lII.* the inventor of the “Keeley cure for the liquor habit.” died in Los Angeles, Cal., of heart disease, William W. Wicker is dead at his home in Brooklyn, aged 80 years. He was a pioneer in the shipment of refrigerated goods, and sent to England the first consignment of American dressed meat. Chief Engineer McDonald of the transport Manauense. has admitted on crossexamination before British Consul Plckersgili at San Francisco that he signed an incorrect statement while undec Pressure favoring the owners of the vessel