Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 May 1900 — BREVITIES. [ARTICLE]

BREVITIES.

Princeton defeated Yale in the seventh annual intercollegiate debating contest. Austria’s parliament ended its session in a violent row over the language session. Viceroy Curzon reports that the number of persons in India in receipt of relief is 5,017,000. Judge Richard Yates of Jacksonville has been nominated for Governor by the Republicans of TUTnbls? Sir Richard Webster, British attorney general, has been made master of the rolls and will be elevated to the peerage. At Trenton, Mo., William Ferguson ~ was found guilty of the murder of S. G. Wilson, a Trenton merchant, in March, 1897. Mrs. M. R. Tutt and Mrs. Eliza Flowerday were drowned-in the St. Johns river, Florida, while crossing the stream in a boat. Erastus Everett, at one time" president of the College of New Orleans, is dead at his late home in Brooklyn. He was 87 years of age. The Order of Railway Telegraphers has called off the strike of the Southern Railway telegraphers. The boycott against the road is still in force. John Francis Brice, scion of the famous house of Brice of Ohio, has secretly married a chorus girl and has sent in his resignation as a student of the Harvard law school. The Bingham faction of the Alabama Republicans, through its executive committee, nominated a State ticket headed by Charles P. Lane, editor of the Huntsville Tribune, for Governor. The Michigan Central freight house, near the union depot at Grand Rapids, Mich., was burned to the ground. Nine-' teeu car loads of freight were also destroyed and five cars burned. At Buffalo, N. Y„ Koerner & Hayes, lithographers, have filed a petition in bankruptcy, with liabilities aggregating $400,000. Herman T. Koerner and Chas. E. Hayes have filed individual petitions. Chalmers Martin, who holds the Elliott F. Shepherd instructorship in Princeton (N. J.) Seminary, has resigned bis chair to accept the presidency of the Pennsylvania College for Women at Pittsburg, Pa. . A force of Filipinos attacked twenty men of Company I of the Forty-fourth regiment stationed at Barotac, Iloilo province, -on the island of Panay. Three of the Americans were killed and seven were wounded. Second Mate Moore gud fourteen of the crew of the British steamer Virginia, wrecked on Diamond Shoals, off Cape Hatteras, have arrived at New Orleans on the Morgan liner El Paso, which rescued them. The Missouri Supreme Court has sentenced six murderers to be hanged on June 15, 1900. They are: Ernest Clevenger, Roliert Cushenlterry, John A. Holloway, Bam Waters, David Miller and Jack Bradford. During a riot between strikers and workmen at the Buttonwood mine of the Parrish Coal Company at Wllkesbarre, Pa., some twenty men were badly injured, Including Hupt. W. T. Smythe. The strikers dispersed the workmen. At Raintown. Pa., Samuel Brown’s 8-year-ohl daughter and two other children named Kirkland met their death in the flames, which destroyed nearly every house in the town. Several men were badly burned, two perhaps fatally. While hunting Charles Kisker of Loavenworth, Kan., was shot and instantly killed by the accidental discharge of u gun in the hands of Harry Kennett. Edward Clifford was banged in the Hudson County (N. J.) jail for the murder Of Division Superintendent W. G. Wattson of tin* West Shore Railway in, 1895. JX Four Ilves were lust at O’Neill sidetrack, sixteen mile* svest of Rawlins/ Wyo., oti the Union Pacific, when an east-bound fast fruit train, drawn by two locomotives, dashed through an open awltcb and down a high embankmeut.