Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1900 — NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS.

Hon. .Jitmp B. Burke Roel-re, M. I’.. Ims been foimil in Washington. 'Die congress of Peru lias declared full Hjimesty for all political offenders. Telegraphic communication between citica of Germany and France lias been opened. The Wisconsin Republican convention nominated Roliert M. I.a Follette for Governor _ Past Assistant Surgeon Stoughton, of the United States gunboat,( astine, was drowned at Shanghai. Canadian Pacific strikers at Winnipeg. Man., are asking citizens and various organizations not to patronize that road. Jack Shortwood, of Chicago, was cleverly robbed of SB.(MM> by means of a confidence trick played by two flashily dressed Englishmen within the grounds of the Paris exposition. N. E. Baekenstoss reached, Seattle, having ridden his bicycle, or walked where the roads were bad. all the way from New York. He claims to have made the trip in eighty-one days. New Rochelle, N. Y., was visited by n tornado and the damage done along the path of the storm, about forty feet wide and four mile* long, was serious. The damage will amount to S4O,(MM). By the bursting of a steam pipe on the etenm yacht Waeonta on I.ake Superior two firemen were killed. They were standing near when the explosion occurred nnd both Were scalded to death. Rev. Dr. Cyrus Hamlin, a famous Turkish missionary, and the founder of Roberts' College nt Constantinople, died in Portland, Me. Dr. Hamlin was a cousin of Vice President Hannibal Hamlin. John Layton, a farmer near Dexter. Mo., was shot and killed at Bloomfield: by Deputy Marshal It. I*. Montgomery while resisting arrest. Montgomery surrendered and was placed under a $5,000 bond. United States Ambassador Choate has been appointed arbitrator between the British and Chinese governments in t’lc cane of the sinking of the British <n--pnti h boat Row Shing during the ChinoJaiianese war. Alexander Jester, Die aged prea -her who was recently acquitted of the murder of Gilbert W. Gates, has taken tip his residence in Norman, Ok., with his ■on. William Hill. He announces that he will soon take up preaching. Bryan nnd Stevenson received nt Indianapolis formal notification of their nomination by the national Democratic convention nt Kansas City, In his speech Col. Bryan made imperialism the paramount issue of the campaign. The union stevedores of Baltimore, numbering nbout 2.500, are on n strike because steamship agents refuse to agree to employ no more non-union men. The Manitoba government er<fp bulletin places the total wheat yield of Manitoba at 11,<NMI,<XM) bushels. Winds, drought, etc., destroyed 348,819 acres of wheat. t » A cablegram from Vienna says th: < Hans Kramer, describtsl as an American tourist, slipped from the Kux Mountain ■nd was not discovered until after, thirty hours, when lie was found with Ixith legs broken.