Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1900 — BREVITIES. [ARTICLE]

BREVITIES.

Gen. Otis rabies the news of several defeats of Filipinos. Filibusters from Nicaragua have captured the town of David, Colombia. English capitalists have purchased 40,000 acres of oil-producing land in Indiana and Ohio. Berlin has a story that Russia will aid Turkey in event of conflict with the United States. Three persons were killed nud three injured severely in a fire in the six-story tenement, 74 Forsyth street, New York. Advices from the Orient received by the steamer Australia say that a powder magaxine blew up at Kum Slum, China, recently. Thirty |>ersons were kilhd and 1144 houses destroyed. David Haddington Shields, once one of the most admired pulpit orators in the central Pennsylvania conference of the Methodist Church, died in a Philadelphia hospital, poor and friendless. lie was a victim of drink. Maj. Evans and I'runk Norman, each serving a one-year sentence for larceny, engaged in a duel with sharpened corset steels in jail at Norfolk, Vn. Norman’s face was cut ojam from forehead to chin aud he will die. At Foxburg, I'a., fire started by the explosion of a lamp consumed the American Hotel, Thomas Grant's general store. Dale’s hardware store, the Allegheny Hotel and Johnson's men’s furnishing store. Dish 900,000. One raun was blown almost to atoms, two men received Injuries which will probnlily prove fatal and eight men and * girl reeelved serious injuries by an explosion of several cans of blasting powder and dynamite at Larimer, I’a. The will of Uelieera Young, a wealthy unmarried womnu of Twiiishurg. Ohio, required relatives to fire two bullets Into her brain and two through her heart after she was pronounced dead, and that her body be given to a medical college. At Youngstown, Ohio, Mr*. Lucy Christy shot hir husband, Hugh Christy, a roller at the mills of the Iron and Hied Company, and then placed the revolver against her right temple and sent a bullet into her brain, death resulting Instantly. Mrs. William Kapsser drowned herself, with her 0-months-old daughter, In the Hhamokln Water Company's reservoir at Hhainokin, Fa. No cause is known. The Printers’ Exchange, Minneapolis, was badly duntuged by fire. The building is occupied by several printing and publishing establishments. The loss la 973,000. In despair because her hair would not grow long, Mrs. Fredcrickn Blame attempted suicide at her residence In Philadelphia. Her husband found her lying unconscious oo the bath room floor, with a half-empty bottle of poison beside her.