Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1900 — BREVITIES. [ARTICLE]

BREVITIES.

Forest fires near South Fork. C«>lo., destroyed large tracts of valuable timber. Thompson Stickle’* design for the Nancy Hanks monument, to be ( reeled over her grave, has been accepted. F. Romans, a candidate for political office in Missouri, committed suicide because of attacks by his opponents. The Palmer Stee l and Iron Company of Chicago having signed the amalgamated scale, its 400 employes at Muncie, Ind., resumed work. Collis P. Huntington, president of the Southern Pacific Railroad, died suddenly at Pine Knot Camp, near Durant, mi Racquette Lake, in the Adirondacks. of heart disease. George M. Street, chairman of the Democratic Central Committee of Pulaski County, Arkansas, committed sui cide by drowning in the Mississippi River at St. Louis. The Ilnmburg-Anierienn Line steamer Deutschland made a new record for the eastward passage, and the fastest time ever attained by any ocean steamer live days eleven hours and forty lit e minutes. A terrible crime was, commit ted nt Jamestown, Ohio, when A. G. Bingamon killed his wife and his son-in-law, James Bradley, and then committed suicide. The tragedy was the result of family troubles. The output of the Klondike district and that part of Forty Mile on the Canadian side, is estimated at S2(I,<nM)JMM) this season. It was SIS.(M)(I,(MM)Jast sea non. The Unity Mile share will not reach $500J»90. Five men have been arrested by the St. Louis police in connection with the use of dynamite on the ears and property of the Tran-it Company. Maurice Bren nan and F. E. Northway, two of the fciisiM’cts, confessed. Agents of Armour & Co., of Chicago, have begun work on the square bounded by Main street and the river and Brook and Floyd streets, in Louisville, Ky., which recently was purchased for the site of the $1,900,000 packing plant. At Poplar Bluff, Mo.. John Griscom, his wife ami two children died from poisoning, the result of eating ice cream flavored with a crude extract. A head-end collislou* occurred on the Itio Grande railroad nt Monument. Col., resulting in the death of two pergons and the injury of several others. The nlr brakes refused to work. In Kansas City Charles Dunbar and Mr*. Nora Bradley of New Albany, I nd., attempted suicide nt a boarding house by taking morphine. Dunbar and Mm. Bradley eirt|M*d six weeks ago and have been living there as man and wife sinte.