Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 May 1900 — News of Minor Note. [ARTICLE]

News of Minor Note.

Newport is expecting a crush of noble lords of high degree this summer. Gertrude Despaiues, 25, of died from ptomaine poisoning, in New York. Homicides in South Carolina have avei aged over 200 a year for the last five years. Republicans at Boston indorsed Secretary of the Navy Ixnig for the Vice Presidency. The plague has Appeared in the Javarood district of Persia, 195 deaths being reported. Fifty thousand dollars’ worth of automobiles have been shipped to Havana recently. The torpedo-boat destroyer Farragut will make Its first real sea cruise from Ban Francisco to San Diego. Because girls deypte too much time to gossip, men will replace them as operatort In Paris telephone stations. Atlantic liners leaving New York are by no means crowded, despite predictions of a rush to the Paris exposition. M. Coquelln and Mme. Bernhardt wllj tour America, after the Paris rnposllion, with “Cyrano de Bergerac."