Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 March 1900 — News of Minor Note. [ARTICLE]

News of Minor Note.

Fifteen persons were inmred in a wreck at Mineola, Texas, F.-^ay. Battleship Kearsarge will become the flagship of the North Atlantic squadron. Unusually cold weather in Florida is believed to have injured the orange trees. Steamer was lost during the recent gale on the Caspian sea and twenty-five persons drowned. A bill has been introduced in the New Jersey Legislature requiring trusts to publish their reports. The battleship Wisconsjn, building at San Francisco, Cal., is expected to take her trial trip before July 1. Kentucky furnished more soldiers, Confederate and Union, than any other State, according to population. Mrs. Kate Grant, GO years old, died at Harlem Hospital, New York, from the effects of gradual starvation. Chicago police are Crying to exterminate the investment companies which promise a fabulous rate of interest. Congressman Lents of Ohio proposes the public distribution qf a United States map to all schools in the United States. (