Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 June 1900 — News of Minor Note. [ARTICLE]

News of Minor Note.

Chicago has sent a check for $5,000 to starving India. Northwestern '”L” road, Chicago, wa* formally opened. The restoration of the Bloody Tower in the Tower of London is now completed. Near Fort Scott, Kan., a farmer boy accidentally shot and killed his 7-year-old brother, while imitating an expert shot with what be thought to be an unloaded pistol. i Pine nnd hemlock stumps and old-logs that wcre supposed to have become worthless years ago are being gathered iu northern Michigan to be manufactured into lath. The original manuscript of the speech favoring the admission of Kansas into the Union, made by William 11. Seward, has been secured by the Kansas State Historical Society.