Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1900 — NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS.

Prohibitory sections of Germany's meat bill take effect Oct. 1. L. Brundage. fireman on the tug Maythnm. was drowned nt Fairport. <>. Max Gruss, a painter and an American citizen, has been expelled from Prussia. The Democrats of Michigan have nominated William (’. Maybury of Detroit for Governor. At Newark, Ohio, Wallace Wilkinson's 9-year-old son Hoy was crushed to death by a horse which fell upon him. Alfred Van Ix'tiven. an old soldier of Geneva, Ohio, dropped dead while on a trip up the lakes near Green Bay. Charles 11. Hoyt, the playwright, is broken down mentally and an application has been made to have his commitment to an asylum made permanent. Kansas Democrats, Populists and Silver Republicans fused on the nomination of a complete State ticket, headed by John W. Breidenthal, Populist, for Governor. Lnte advices from Dawson tell of another tragedy, four out of a party of five losing their lives as a result of a terrible trip taken to the head waters of the Stewart river. Richard Gardner, colored, who narrowly escaped lynching at Chillicothe, Ohio, on account of the murder ot Ethel Long, was'sentenced to death. The motion for a new trial was overruled. The new steamer Deutschland, from New York, arrived nt Plymouth. England, on her maiden trip eastward, after a record run of 5 days 14 hours and 9 minutes, despite two days of fog. Fire destroyed the Eastern elevator in Buffalo, which is situated on the island opposite the foot of Washington street. The elevator ami its contents were valued at S7SO.<KMI ami are a total loss. The United States torpedo-boat de■troyer Dale was launched from the Trigg shipbuilding yards, Richmond. Va., its sponsor being Miss Mary Hasel! Wilson, a descendant of Commodore Robert Dale. An investigation by the police of the death in Philadelphia of .Mrs. Charles Marchand nnd her 6-year-old daughter proved conclusively that the woman gave the child earladie acid and then committed suicide. Paris ptdice were called on to quell a riot caused by the jury’s award of first prize in the National Conservatory of Music? Gen. William F. Draper, ambassador to Italy, hns forwarded his resignation <o President MoKinley.' He gave ns his reason that, business interests required bls entire attention. After a long jteriod of imprisonment, which he endured more like a ferocious ben at tlian like n human being. Geronimo, one of tho most bloodthirsty Indians that ever figured iu history, has gone stark w-sd He is a prisoner at Fort Hill, O. T.