Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1900 — NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS.

LaudnlideH and earthquakes are changing the face of Bohemia. Ten persons have been indicted in Kentucky for the murder of William Goebel. Czar of Russia has presented to France a inap of France made of precious atones in mosaic. Jewels valued at SIO,(MM) were stolen from the Princess Auersperg in New York City. Keth Low, president of Columbia University, has been elected president of the American Gi-ographieal Society. Latest advices received at Kingston, Jamaica, tell of the complete defeat of the insurgent forces in Colombia. Jeunie O’Neil Potter, the well-known elocutionist, died at St. Luke's hospital. New York, from cancer. She was 28 years old and was born in Patch Grove, Wis. Fin l caused a loss of about $75,060 in the big mattress and iron bed factory of Charles H. Hoge rs & Co. in New York. The fire was discovered iu the cellar near the engine room. Rev. Faye Walker. D. I).. who for aevcnteen years hus been president of Oxford, Ohio, College, formerly Oxford Female College, has presented his resignation to the board of trustees, and it has l»en accepted. Judge Isaac Jobnsun of Wooster, Ohio, waa killed by an Eric freight train at the union depot in Main-field. He was standing on the track and did not see the cars ajtpronch. He was 60 years of age and a leader in the Republican party. Belated dispatches from several sec lions of Mississippi indicate that the three days’ flood caused damage greatly in excess of the first estimates, especially to growing crops. Many truck plantations will be almost completely destroyed. D. T. Baxter, aged 45. a well-known Kentucky newspaper <<>rrv«|>ondent, committed suicide at Lexington by shooting. 11l health is given as the cause. An anarchist plot has been discovered at Ancona, a city and free port of Central Italy. The police seised a number of latten from Paris and America, and arrested the recipientH of these missives. The Ohio legislature has adjourned. Among other legislation killed by the adjournment was the million-dollar appropriation for the Toledo exposition. A stand was made for that amount, half tb« Sum having been refused.