Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1900 — Sparks from the Wires. [ARTICLE]

Sparks from the Wires.

Mrs. Bcnj. Morgen stern, 108, New Jork, is dead. Wm. Barts, colored, was lynched at Basket Mills. S. C. Burglars cracked a safe in Davidson, N. C-, and seemed S6OO. Five men were killed and forty wounded in strikers’ riot at Rio de Janeiro. Dr. H. N. Selfridge, Oakland, Cal., has cured himself of cancer by X-rays treat* Cleveland, Ohio, bloods were eanght for 910,000 in the Security Savings Society bubble at Chicago. Believed that Charles Betsch and two other prospectors have been frozen to death in Alaska. The consumption of cotton per head haa more than doubled in Germany since ISIS. French statistics are said to prove that 211 French ofltaers threw np their commissions to join the Boers. Four thousand continental emigrants per month are rushing to England to take vacant situations at higktr wages. Mayor Harrison of Chicago paid the city would use the water power of the drainage canal fas municipal purposes. Exteashre>opper mines,in the Mazapil district. Mexico, hare heea purchased by the Rothschilds. Consideration 9800,000.