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

BREVITIES.

Giles F. Filley, a prominent St. Louis manufacturer, is dead. Emperor William heard his play, “The Iron Tooth.” roundly hissed at its initial production in Berlin. Susan B. Anthony has undertaken to raise an endowment fund of SSOO,<MMt foi the National Suffrage Association. American cowboys and Mexicans fought at Pilares de Tierra, and three of the former and five of the latter were killed. Three children. Etta. George and Samuel Friedman, were burned to death in a fire supposed to be of incendiary origin. at No. 1691 3d avenue, New York, a tepement house. The senators of the University of Edinburgh have decided to confer the degree of doctor of laws on Miss Eleanor A. Ormerod, who has won world wide fame as an economic entomologist. H. M. Bryan and F. L. Bernard, clerks of the Emporium, n big San Francisco department store, stole $7,000 from the salary envelopes of the employes, and escaped before the thefts were discovered. It is announced at Cleveland that the Cuddy-Mullen (Jbal Company has been bought by the Pittsburg coal trust. The business has been run in opposition to the trust, buying coal from independent mines. The Missouri Pacific’s local i»assenger train from St. Louis ran into the rear end of the same road’s St. Ixtuis day express about ten miles east of Kansas City. Two women were killed and six persons injured. Fire destroyed the business section of Clarion, Pa., and resulted in the death of ex-Judge W. W. Barr, who dropped dead from excitement. Fourteen business houses were destroyed. The loss will amount to $150,000. The London war office makes official announcement that Gen. Dundonakl, with two regiments, has entered Ladysmith. A straight flush in the hands of his opponent, when shown against his own four aces, killed George Brown, a colored man employed as janitor in several buildings in San Francisco. • Sandy Calhoun, an ex-member of the Twentieth Kansas, was run. down on a Memphis passenger train out of Fort Scott, Kan., by officers on a switch engine and arrested, charged with the murder of his business partner at Yule, Knn.