Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1900 — BREVITIES. [ARTICLE]

BREVITIES.

I Count tl'Arjuzon, chanilH'rlain to Napodwm Hi.. H dead. State Senator Rk-hard Hiffble of New York died at hi* home on l>uig lalaud. r Italy lias adopted for her navy a new aiitoniatk- rifle that fire* seventeen nbots ■ second. DiC Frederick Maasen. noted Austrian authority on eeeleriarticnl law, is dead at Imißpnick, aged 77. Five hundred pound* of plug cut tobat'co baa been wised In variotiH San Franris’-o store* by internal revenue agent* becaiim- the packages were insufficiently atainiM-d. The leaf tobacco factory of \V. G. Dun ijiugton & t’o. in Petersburg, Va., containing over 1.000.0ti0 pounds of tobacco, purchsM-d recently for the Austrian Government, was destroyed by fire. The lokh is estimated at >IOO,OOO. U The daughter of Jcnae Howard, a fanner living three mile* <-a*t of Springfield, Ark., left home to go to the field where she was working in their crop. The next luoruing her corpse wa* awinging from a niaple limb, dead and cold. ' Rnaident Janie* J. Hill of the Great *>Jiorfliern Railroad and a number of otb ; er official* of the road narrowly e*< - m>ed iM-ing killed hy the ditching of their special train on the Northern Pacific track In Silver Bow < a nyon, Mont. At Omaha the Trnn*p<>rtntion tmildlug cm the TrnnNini**i**lppi exposition ground* was entirely destroyed by fire. All the other large Ktructure* have been torn down by the- wrecking company. No one ffppc-ara to know how the fire started. 7 The six-story brick building of the H. B. Hunt StHtupiug Company in Ulcveland and eontc-nta were l totallv destroyed by fire. The loss I* >185.0(M). r Rev Dr. Joseph Hemphill committed sulfide near Balis rd, Cal., by blowing the top of bis head off with a shotgun. He is believed to have been temporarily mWhile |H-ie*t was administering the last AScminitit to a dying man. in the presence of hi* relatives, near Cortinna, SjNsin, th* floor of the room collapsed aud the dying man and four other persona Were killed ■nd fourteen were Injured.