Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1900 — Odds and Ends. [ARTICLE]

Odds and Ends.

It is believed that the plague in Honolulu has now run its course. The survey of the route for a Pacific cable has been finished by the steamer Nero. The Pittsburg Plate Glass Company has announced a general advance of 5 per cent. Gen. Bravos of Mexico has defeated the Maya Indians in the southern part of that country. Advices from Dawson state that a general exodus to Cape Nome was expected in May and June. The Millar-Osborne spice works and the Moline Plow Company's warehouse, Denver, Colo., were burned. Loss $150,000. Ed Berlin was found dead on top of a Pullman car at Louisville. Death was caused by his bead striking a bridge or tunnel, James Detrick, a Californian, is in Bucyrus, Ohio, to purchase great steel wagons and traction engines for use in the desert of northern China in place of camels. ■» A jury at Dallas, Texas, has declared the will of the late Gen. E. A. Mexia of Mexico invalid because of undue Influence. Property woith over $1,000,000 is affected. A troop of Boer horsemen who perform nightly in a Gerwin circus have been forbidden that part of their program which represents a victory over British redcoats. The Abbott-Downing Company of Concord, N. H., manufacturer of carriages and wagons, has failed w ith $200,000 liabilities aud $600,060 assets. It was established in 1826. The Glasgow (Scotland) Tramway and Street Railway Company has ordered from the Ritter-Conley Company of Pittsburg, Pa., structural iron and steel plates worth SIOO,OOO. The Chicago postoffice shows a great decrease in the sale of postage due stamps since the rules prohibiting the forwardink of underpaid second and third class matter ypent into effect. A slab to the memory of George Wahsington’s ancestors is to be removed from a church in Wiltshire, England, to th« Smithsonian Institution. Its date is 1645 and ft bears a coat of arms and an inacription setting forth the virtues of Washington’s grandfather’s -grandparents. ""Italian agents who have been in New York for a couple of weeks past have concluded arrangements for the equipment of several trolley roads in the leading cities of northern Italy. What'is said to be the first instance of a mother performing the marriage ceremony for her daughter occurred recently in San Francisco, when Mrs. Kate Heussman united Miss Mary Violet Heussman to Felix Drapinski. Mra. Heusaman is an ordained minister under a State charter issued to the Independent Bible Society, of which she is a mission ary-