Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 March 1900 — NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS.

Prussian railways are- to experiment w »th' American automatic couplers. Gen. Zealous B. Tower, U. S. A. (re tired), died at Cohasset, Mass., aged 81 years. Ghazi Osman Pasha, the defender of Plevna, and Turkey’s greatest general, is dead. * Admiral Sir Henry Fairfax, British commander-in-chief at Plymouth, died in N aplfM. Police had to suppress disorder and’ free fights nt the national Irish banquet in Ijondon. The St. Louis Steel Barge Company has filed articles of incorporation, with a capital stock of SIIO,OOO. The famine expenditure in India for <899-1900 is £2,055.000, and that for 1900-01 is estimated at £3,335,000. _ Bulgaria and Roumapbi having disagreed over an island in the Danube, the former countrj has decided to submit the dispute to a board of arbitration. The Flint wagon works at Flint, Mich., were totally destroyed by tire, causing a toss of over S2OO,(MK). The plant was insured for $120,000. Five hundred men are thrown out of jvork. At Hartington, Neb,, 11m- jury in the Case of J. C. Harris, editor of the Beldcu News, charged with the murder of John Blinkiron, returned a verdict of not guilty. His plea was self-defense. The Constantinople correspondent of the London times announces that the '(Udltfal Mfctyifrld.ed “in all essential parflAmmds respcct‘lnjf AsiaElinor.President Caroline Hazard of IVclles: toy College announces that John D. hail, promised to give Wellesley SIOO,OOO when the college debt should l>e raised. The debt is about $96,000. The v jKumford medal of the American Avudeftyr of Arts and Sciences has been swarded to Charles F. Brush of Cleveland. JWr. Brush won the medal by the discovery am! development of the electric, arc lamp. The Jewett white lead works at Port Richmond, 8. 1., suffered to the extent of SIOO,OOO by fire. The company’s plant eonslsted of six buildings, three of which were destroyed, together with a large quantity of white lead. The Seine river water power in the Ontario gold region is to be developed for ■ mining purposes. ->lt is estimated at 6,200-horse power and the American-Ca-nadian Gold Mining Company will furnish the necessary capital. J. E. Davis of Roberts, Mont., was killed and Frank Wyatt and George Wisweil were injured by falling wnlls at a fire at the Red Lodge coal camp. Three •tores and two .printing offices were destroyed. The loss is placed at $200,000. While playing with a neighbor's dog at Lima, Ohio, the 2-ycar-old child of Noah Brennan was horribly and fatally wounded on the flee and head. Oapt- Stone and twenty-six men of the wrecked British ship City of Florence, which Struck a reef ten miles south of IM at Pedro. Cal., were picked up by the tug Alert two miles north of Point Pedro. F.rank W. Elliott, editor of the Troy, Kan., Times, was shot by an unknown man as he alighted from a train. His assailtnt fired from ambush. Elliott will recover. The bullets struck him in the