Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1900 — Sparks from the Wires. [ARTICLE]

Sparks from the Wires.

Brooklyn. N. Y., Is threatened with a water famine. Ex-Oov. Wolcott hay accepted the ambassadorship'to Italy. Work for the new nary now under way will cost s‘.’>2,ooo,OUO. Marie Danton, mimic, London stage favorite, la coming to America. Yellow fever is epidemic all along the Mexican ports and at Panama. A British cruiser burned 22,000 tons of coal going from England to Australia. So scarce is the I’aris water supply that private service is cut off between 11 p. m. and G a. m. every night. The suggestion that the name of Pretoria should be changed to Victoria is said to be receiving wide support. Alexander Donelson, a prominent man, was mysteriously assassinated uenr Nashville, Tenn. The head wns wrenched from the Queen's statue in Elswick Park, Newcastle, England. Sir William Vernon Harcourt estimates the coat of the South African war as approximately £30,000,000. Convention hall, In Kansas City, Mo., has been Insured for slbo,ooo, with more policies yet to be Uwutd. About SO per cent of the 4,(00,000 Spanish pesos haw been exchanged In Porto liter for our mosey.