Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1900 — NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS.

James J. Corbett is being urged to run for Congress. Eugene Lambert, famous painter of cats, is dead at Paris. John F. Antisdel, veteran hotel n an, is dead at Detroit, Mich. President Colombo was hooted out of the Italian chamber of deputies. Rev. Henry Granjon of Baltimore has been appointed bishop of Tucson, Ariz. Germany’s pavilion at the I’aris exposition was formally opened, as was that of Turkey. Four strike sympathizers were shot in St. Louis iu fights with non-union street car employes. Prof. Immanuel Schmidt, lexicographer and Shakspearean translator, died at Berlin, aged 77. 8. D. Shattuck, one of the founders of the Republican party, died at Knoxville, Tenn., aged 81. O. T. Yerkes’ plan for underground railways in London is Ix-ing considered by the London county council. John F. Gillon. who served in the British army in the battle of Waterloo, is dead at Weymouth, Mass., aged 97. Mrs. Rosalie Farley, the “cattle queen" and daughter of the last of the Omaha chiefs, is dead at Bancroft, Neb. Chicago city directory enumerators for 1900 have almost completed their work. An estimate by experienced and conservative exi>crts gives the city a population of 2,001,000. Estelle and Murphy, the burglars who broke jail nt Marysville, Kan., anti murdered Ed Roberts at Dunlap, were captured on a small island in the Neosho river, four mile* south of Hartford. Seven persons were severely Injured in a fire which destroyed the Hotel Helene at Fifty-third rtret and the Illinois Central track*. Chicago. One or more deaths may result. The hotel is a total loss. Ttjc grandstand, the famous gjass betting ring, and all the buildings of the race track at Clifton, N. J„ were entirely destroyed by fire. The total loss is SIOO,000. The fire was the work of incendiaries. Seven Filipino* made an attempt to burn a quantity of liny stored near the quartermaster’* storehouse on the Manila river front. The guards killed one of them and wounded another. The others escaped. The Peruvian Government has ratified the resolution of Congress, adopted Nov. 28, approving the extradition treaty with the United State*. The large warerooms of the CbicngoRockford hosiery work* of Kenosha, ’ Wis., were destroyed by fire, entailing n losa of over SIOO,OOO, which is entirely covered by insurance. The wife of A. J. McMichaels, a colored preacher of Marion, .Ohio, hacked him over the head with ■ corn cutter ten times, but the wontidt did not confine him In bed. It took forty stitches to close the Jm. <•