Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1900 — Notes of Current Events. [ARTICLE]

Notes of Current Events.

Columbus, Ohio, police found a counterfeiting plant in an old cemetery. At West Point, Ga., Ed Scott shot and killed Carrie and Mena Hugbley, sisters. Granite cutters, after being out six mouths, won. They got an eight-hour day and an increase in wages. Chicago man in a buggy shot nt Motorman Olson, for sounding bis gong. The driver refused to get off the track. After •hooting, he escaped. The distance from the farthest point of polar discovery to the pole itself is 41)0 miles. Tiie famous farm of the late Ward McAllister at Middletown, R. L, is about to ho converted into a Roman Catholic cemetery, Tiie progress oj-the Peary relief steomefr WindwarcF'is exuectcd to Im> much delayed by the unu«*il prevalence of ice fields along the Labrador const. A terrific cloudburst in the rnlley of the Verde River, in Arisona, though it drowned two men, was welcomed as n godsend becansc of a long drouth.