Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 March 1900 — This and That. [ARTICLE]

This and That.

Two years ago the zinc mining companies of Missouri numbered about a dozen; now they exceed 200. The director of the census expects to have the main reports of the twelfth census publnshed nqt later than July 1, 1902. . .' . Caught ih n snowslide near Eureka, Colo., Chris Ihmsen. one of the owners of the Lucky Friend mine, was swept to bis death. Mrs, Henrietta Snell, widow of Amos J. Snell, the Chicago capitalist, whose murder has not been solved, died from heart disease. J. M. Dobie of Ramires, Live Oak County, Texas, owns a steer whose horns from point to point measure 9 feet 7 inches. It will be sent to the Paris exposition. * Col. Schwartzkoppen, military attache of the German embassy in Paris, who figured extensively hi the Dreyfus affair, ha? been promoted to the rank of major general. v '•. Recent investigations have* shown that there are In the State of Maryland at least 28,000 voters who could not meet an educational test, should one be required, as has been proposed.