Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1900 — BREVITIES. [ARTICLE]

BREVITIES.

Bread riots have taken place nt Belize, British Honduras. New York’s ice trust is to l>e fought by a uew company that promises low prices. Canada’s cabinet offered to resign, but agreed to-remain at the request of Lord Minto. Police of Mansfield, Ohio, sent out of town the four Zion elders who have been mobbed there. The passengers and crew of the channel steamer Connemara fought flames on the boat for several hours. Li Hung Chang has had 2,000 Chinese executed at Canton, subduing rebellious natives by a reign of terror. Zion Elders MeChirkiu and Fisher of Chicago were stripped and painted blue by a mob at Mansfield, Ohio. London's new underground railway, from Phcpherd’s Bush to the Bunk, was opened and proved a great success. The first cargo of American coal imported into Russia has arrivod nt Reval for the use of the Warsaw Railroad. Russia's new cruiser Vuring. built by the Cramps, made more than twentythree knots an hour on her trial trip. In Grass Valley, Cal., a fire which •tarted in n laundry burned over two business blocks, causing u loss of S7S.<NX). A monument was dedicated nt Fort Mill, 8. C., in memory of the Catawba Indians, who fought for the Confederacy. The annual report of the commissioner of pensions shows (M 13.528 names on the rolls, an increase of 2,<>10 during the year. Alexander Jester, on trial at New London. Mo., for the murder of Gillwrt Gates twenty-nine years ago. was acquitted. The jury took six ballots. Dr. S. A. Knopf of New York has been awarded the prize of 4,(MM) marks offered by the Berlin tuberculosis congress for the best essay on how to fight tuberculoids. William G. Lung, n Chicago traveling num, committed suicide at Dallas, Texas, by shooting himself through the heart. Despondency is supposed to have been the cause of the act. The British ship Sutherlandshire, Capt. Nicol, from Rotterdam for Kiao-Chou, and Portland. Ore., grounded at Sumatra and became n total wreck. Thirteen of her crew were drowned. A rumor hns reached London from Belgrade that an attempt was made to assassinate King Alexander while lie was driving through the town. It is said he was shot ut, but was not injured. The British House of Commons has sanctioned additional war taxation and the borrowing of £13,000,000 by the chancellor of the exchequer, either ns war loans or by menus of treasury or exchequer bunds. The wholesale lumber firm of T. M. Richardson A Ron of Oklahoma City, with headquarters at Houston, Texas, has made an assignment for the benefit of their creditors. The liabilities will reach S2IO,(MA). The assets are unknown. King Ilumla-rt's slayer «ay« lie left America for the purpose of assassination. Anarchistic principles led him to the crime. The Baltimore and Ohio Deqiiosne limited from Pittsburg collided with o local freight at Mount Ravage Junction, three tnilcs woet of Cumberland. Md. Five persons were injured, none mrlounly. Rev. J. F. Moreland, in charge of the Zion Methodist Episcopal church for negroes in Bt. Louis, Is operating a |>enny bank to stimulate his race- to industry •nd thrift. His only capital is his hon«ty, lu which bis flock relies implicitly.