Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1900 — News of Minor Note. [ARTICLE]

News of Minor Note.

Kangaroo farming is to.be au established institution in Australia. Dave Duncan went insane while discussing religion at Newkirk, Okla. Because Reinhardt Toon killed Ida Keller at Chicago, Paul Wagner, 17, committed jptiride, Wednesday night, by hanging. 1 The latest statistics show that the United States has over 200.000 miles of railroad, and less than 20,000 utiles of good wagon roads. Coral is again in favor after its long period of disuse. The pink coral ia the choicer, from its purity, but the common red ia much worn. The women of Pretoria gather together at each other’s houses iu sewing parties, making clothing for those of their family on the firing line/ The Jewish population of London has more than doubled duriug the last twenty years. It is now estimated at between 100,000 and 120,000. Alfred K. Morrison, who killed his wife at White Plains, N. Y., thinking she waa a burglar, was acquitted. Mrs. Etuyle Hyde Grinnell of ter, Vt., who died recently at the age at 103 years, was the oldest resident of the Green Mountain State. The War Department has purchased from the North American Mail Htcamshlp Company the steamship Columbia for use as a transport in the Pacific. A Philadelphia man who has jast taken the pledge explains this act by saying that 'when he was drunk recently be committed the folly of paying hia debts.