Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 June 1900 — BREVITIES. [ARTICLE]

BREVITIES.

Smallpox has broken out in the thickly populated East Eml of London. Yaqui Indians have decided to keep up their fight against the .Mexican Government. Five persons wore injured by the fall of an elevator in the Hotel Walton. Philadelphia. A lion in a menagerie at Milwaukee broke from his cage and killed a kangaroo and n pony. Greek Church authorities have issued a secret order forbidding masses for Tolstoi should he die unrepentant. Mrs. Gladstone was buried beside her husband in Westminster Abbey, the Queen Iwing represented at the services. British troops on the Gold Coast have been defeated again b) the Ashantis. Train No. 70 on the Cumberland and Ohio Southern branch of the Louisville ami Nashville Railroad went through a bridge at Calvary, Ky.. causing the death of two men and the injury of twelve others. Anson riielps Stokes. Jr., secretary of the Yale corporation and son of Anson Phelps Stokes, the New York banker, has irv.cepted th<* position of assistant pastor of St. I’aul's Episcopal Church of New Haven, Conn. A terrific thunderstorm passed over the section of ♦suintry near Bed Fern, R. I>. Two boys about 10 years old, George McNickie and John Thompson, were killed by lightning. The families of both boys are well known. The south polar expedition, promoter! by former Captain Oscar Von Bmtondahl of Berlin, will sail nt an early date from Hamburg. , The Deliver Times hns passed into the hands of a new management. Charles E. Hasbrook, recently business manager of the Denver Republican, assumes control as editor and manager. Three departments of the Illinois Steel Company at Routh Chicago, the slab mill, employing 400 men; plate mill, 500 men, and the open-hearth furnace, 300 men, which were closed down recently, resumed operations.