Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 May 1900 — BREVITIES. [ARTICLE]

BREVITIES.

Recent cold weather almost entirely destroyed the Moaelle vintage. Distillers in conference at Cincinnati decided to eut down production for the present. John Hauer & Co.'a cigar leaf tobncco house in Cincinnati was destroyed by tire. Loan Fully 100 |>eraous have been exposed to smallpox which has broken out at North Springfield, Pa. Transatlantic travel has dropped off and second-cabin rates may Im> reduced to the winter figures. The Queen's birthday honor list includes none of the war heroes nnd confers only three iteerages. Samuel A. Elliott of Cambridge, Mass., was elected president of the American Unitarian Association at Boston. CT “Terrapin Tom" Murrey, once manager of the House of Representatives restaurant, committed suicide in New York. The President has .appointed John C. Freeman of Wisconsin to l>e United States consul at Copenhagen, Denmark. United State* sent a peremptory note verging on an ultimatum to the Sultan demanding a prompt settlement of the indemnity claims. The German reichstng, voting by roll call, adopted the meat bill by 103 to 123 votes. The measure prohibits the im|>ortation of canned or sausage meat and places other restrictions on American packers. Ambassador White made a clever speech in receiving the New York veterans of the Franco-Prussian war at Berlin. L At Hood River, Ore., Mias Ida Foss, a school teacher, aged 25 years, was shot and instantly killed by her lover, Benjamin Wagnits, in a fit of anger nnd jealTbe old Globe or Gardner mill, belonging to the Tytna-Gardncr Paper Company, was destroyed by fire at Middletown. Ohio. There was an explosion of chemicals, but the firemen escaped injury. The low io estimated at *IOO,OOO.