Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1900 — News of Minor Note. [ARTICLE]

News of Minor Note.

There is promise in Oregon of the largest fruit crop ever harvested. A Frenchman named Dufour claims to have found n way of melting and molding quarts like glass. Ashley B. Jordan of Davton died of over-exertion while participating in a iTVfc-mile bicycle road race. After calling on bis sweetheart, at Millerton, N. Y., Michael Collins fell dowj an embankment and was killed. A Concord, N. H., judge has decMed that soda water is one of the necessaries of lite, and may be sold on Sunday. licmons and oranges from Loa Angejes, Cal ? wese kept perfectly*fresh in a cold storage voyage of 8,000 miles to Paris. A pet robin gave ths alarm when burglara entered the house of Walter Sigler. at Millerton, Jf, Y., frightening them off.