Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1900 — BREVITIES, [ARTICLE]

BREVITIES,

Gen. Piet Joubert died at Pretoria, after a short illness. The British cruiser Terrible has sailed from Durban for China. Ex-Senator J. J. Coyle of Philadelphia was acquitted of the charge of bribery. > Liberia’s-navy, consisting of two gunboats, has been destroyed by accidents. Neither Carnegie nor Frick is on the board of directors of the new Carnegie company. r It is said the Duke of Orleans has bought an estate in Hungary and will live there. Lieut. Gen. Sir Arthur Power Palmer ■will succeed Gen. Lockhart as commander in India. L The President has appointed John I*. p ,V. Gridley of Pennsylvania a second lieu- ■ tenant of marines. • E. A. Ford, traveling passenger agent of the Pennsylvania Railroad, died at his i home in Ocean Grove, N. J., aged 55. Burglars visited the postoffice at Mas con, Neb., ami blew open the safe. They | secured S2OO in money and some stamps. Alexander Jester, alleged murderer of £ Gilbert Gates, is again disappointed. His e trial at Mexico, Mo., has been postponed k until July 9. r Dr. Isaac M. Wise, famous Jewish H rabbi, is dead at Cincinnati, aged bl. J Cardinal Camillo Mazella is dead in k Rome, aged 07. unsuccessful attempt was made to ■Kb the bank of Bntro & Co. in San Frun- ‘ cisco, the robbers entering the bank by i cutting through the walls. fe The Chinese Empress Dowager has ? sent two cruisers to the Straits SettleKtownt to helpcapture or kill Ko tig lu Wei and other reformers. .Will Edwards, alias “Wing" Smith, the E-negro who murdered Edward B. Johnson Dulaney’s Levee camp, was hanged by In mob at Deer Creek Bridge, Miss, r w. h. Culton, after being held to the fraud jury along with Caleb Powers and John Davis for alleged complicity in k Goeliel’a murder, made a confession to # the State's Attorney at Frankfort, Ky. fe Dynamite was placed tinder the rear of Ktbe house of John Bude in Chicago and fcexpioded. The police believe this was feioue to kill Bude and his wife and three hildrea as they slept. They say it in Bhe result of a neighborly ood feud.