Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1900 — NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS.

Martini law has l*eeti declared nt Gape Nome. The Government will ask for hills for fourteen warships to cost $50,000,000. A fearful epidemic, a plague of mysterious symptoms, has attacked the town of Columbia, Louisiana. Not a single ttegru who lias been taken has recovered. The long-expected reciprocity arrnngemefit between the United States nnd Germany has lieen effected. Secretary liny and the German utubassudor have subscribed to the convention. Francis Truth, who advertised himself ns a divine healer, appeared in the United States Circuit Court in Boston, withdrew liis previous plea of not guilty, pleaded guilty and was fined $2,500, which lie {iu id. “On account of the high price of other meat, not only horse meat,' hut also dog meat, is used by people ns an article of food in Germany,’* says Consul General Guenther at Frankfort, iu n report to the State Department. United States I’ontoffice Inspector James \Y Erwin of San Francisco lias received orders from Washington to proceed as early ns possible to the Philippines and assist in the organization of the postal -system in the islands. Plot to murder President McKinley ia alleged to have bet'll discovered and the President’s residence at ('union, Ohio, la guarded closely, Cubans aud Spaniards, with headquarters In New York, are said to he chief conspirators. Illinois Central passenger train No. 4, the fast express between New Orleans and Chicago, was attacked aud held up by six men two miles south of WicklUfe, Ky.. am) the express car rohlied of Its ' contents, including about SIO, (KK) in citsi|. The National Telephone and Telegraph Company, witty nu authorized capital of $50,000,000, has filed articles of iucorpirntion at Trenton, X. J. >• The entire plant of tiff* Birmingham Cement Company nt Knsley, Ala., was destroyed by fire. The uriglu of the fire in not known. The loss wllj be about sloo,Whi. with possibly less Insurance. Tie* Toledo. Bt. I,mils and Western Ilullrond Company, a reorgiuiizn tbm of the old Clover I«caf road, extending from Toledo to East Nt. Louis, has been incorporated nt liidluunpolis with a capital •lock of $20,000,000.