Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1900 — Brief News Items. [ARTICLE]

Brief News Items.

Canada may send 10.000 more troops to tiie Cape. Nicaraguans favor Americans controlling the canal. Russia will build a railroad across Persia, 1.300 miles long. Chicago Board* of Trade has abolished “put” and ’‘call” trading. Plague is about over in Honolulu. City has been thoroughly cleansed. George Barrow. abductor of baby Marion Clark, New York, is insane. A Liverpool physician has discovered the bacillus of pink-eye iff horses. Dr. Lapponi, the papal physician, says Pope Leo may live to be 100 years old. Preston Hurlburt, prominent stockman, Buffalo. N. Y., killed by a street car. G. W. Cross and Gus Leach were killed by a dynamite explosion, HillSworth, Ga. Porch climbers secured SI,OOO worth of jewelry from Mrs. A. S. Sturm, Chicago. A system of government inspection of nursery stock is expected to be enacted soon. F. O. Tait, amateur golf champion of England, was killed iu the battle at Koodoos berg. Owing to the Texas anti-trust law the bicycle trust refuses to ship wheels there unless money accompanies the order. Nearly $200,000,000 will be appropriated by this Congress for the support of the United States army and navy during the next year. The Ohio House of Representatives has passed a bill prohibiting the desecration of the American flag by its use for advertising purposes. Three hundred Spanish prisoners of the Filipinos dispersed their guard, escaped/ and barricaded themselves in a town, awaiting the arrival of the Americans. Judge William 11. Taft, who has been appointed president of the new Philippine commission, said be would no: remain in the Islands longer than two years. Said that tire insurance companies lost more than $5,000,000 iu New York the past year. A tornado passed over Custer, O. T., wrecking four buildings and killing Jas. Abney and wife. Thirty-nine Irish representatives from Chicago will go to Pretoria to join the Boer hospital corps. W. T. Hudson, Haskell, Texas, live stock raiser, filed petition in bankruptcy. Liabilities 1223,000. Former Goy; Wolcott, Massachusetts, declined an appointment on the Philippines commission.