Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1900 — NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS.

Venezuelan rebel* under Hernandez bare suffered a decisive defeat. Walter Wataon, New York manager of the Bank of Montreal, died iu New York, •fed 70, Johu Arbuekle has asked that a receiver be appointed for the Woolaon Spice Company. \ Advices from Kobe are that Russia has •ecured the Masaupho grant and Japan is satisfied. In the Italian chamber of deputies the opposition walked out in a body as a mark of protest. Joseph Bertrand, eminent mathematician secretary of the Academy of Sciences, is dead at Paris. A mob at Sun Juan de Porto Kieo, forced carpenters to quit work until an cightfcour day shall be granted. Capt. Peter Astle Scott, a member of the Boss antarctic expedition of 1841, is dead in England, aged 84. The General. Electric Company of New York has secured control of the Siemens & Halske Electric Company of America. Mrs. Sarah Fracker Kauffmann, the wife of S. H. Kauffmann, president of the Washington Evening Star Newspaper Company, Is dead. Fire in a hat store filled the Hoffman House and Albemarle Hotel, New York, with smoke, aud caused a panic among the guests, in the midst of which Olga Nethersole fainted. At Winfield, Kan., robbers rifled the Banta Fe depot and shot and killed i). C. Coates, the night operator, in escaping. They secured only a few cents. The killing was evidently committed to prevent identification. The steamer Jenuie George, owned by the Catlettsburg and Piketown Packet Company of Catlettsburg, Ky„ sunk near Paintaville, Ky., with all her cargo. The boat waa worth SB,OOO. Thirty passenbers barely escaped. Reinhold Meyer, a patrol sergeant of the Central police station in Chicago, is undergoing hesoic treatment at a hospital for locomotor ataxia. He is suspended by the neck with a halter and left hanging several minutes every day. French Minister of War de Gallifet told the chamber Of deputies that France's ports and colonies are absolutely safe f row ci tt SCSI* • The New York World prints a dispatch from its Washington correspondent angbouncing that Admiral Dewey has reconsidered his former decision and is willing to become a candidate for President. Ewell Purdue was fatally shot and his brother Dee waa seriously wounded near Centerville, W. Va., by Arthur and A 1 MfFUniL brothers, while they were reftfrfdng' from church. The families had «n #6 Hw Cyrus boys escaped.