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

Brief News Items.

Many Japs nre going to Cape Nome th engage in mining. Prince of Wales will visit the Paris exposition in Juno. Wm. Edmunds, Chicago, fatally shot his wife and himself. A native Eskimo has been ordained as a Swedish minister in Chicago. Chicago sochtliats have indorsed the Debs-Harrininn national ticket. Dr. G. R. C. Todd, a brother-in-law of President Linco'.n, died at Barnwell, 8. O. The floods in Mississippi and Louisiana have caused damage estimated at $3,000,000. The will of tin* late Rufus Wright, shot to dentil at Chicago, bequeaths nearly $1,000,000 to hh family. The attempts of the Australian authorities to stamp out the plague at Sidney have so far proved Ineffectual. Gen. Funston led an expedition into Baler and left there a garrison of the Thirty-fourth volunteer infantry. W. K. Freany, New York, was found dead Sitting in a seat in a park. Had taken carbolic acid. Nude body of Miss Fannie Abbott was found with her throat cut, near South Bcrwyck, Me. Believed to be murdered.