Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1900 — Brief News Items. [ARTICLE]

Brief News Items.

Four mnn-eating sharks were cnuglit at Bay Shore, N. Y. Capt. Jonathan North. Lee, Mass., celebrated his 104 birthday. Said the Vanderbilts will secure the Wabash railway system. Dr. J. S. (tray, of West Virginia, killed himself in Washington. Rival of the 'New York ice trust lias entered the field. It has SSUO,OOU capital. Clarence Charles, brother of the New Orleans desperado, fearing he would be killed, has gone to Chicago. Mrs. Gussie Ornstein, New York, dashed acid into Mrs. Fannie Funtalin' face. She’ll lose a* eye. Jealous. Since the assassination of King Humbert, precautions for the safety of the Sultan of Turkey have been redoubled. Miss Clarissa Blake, daughter of a retired Boston banker, was thrown from a horse and killed at New Rochelle, N. Y. S. A. Knopf, New York, gets 4,000 marks nt • Berlin from the tuberculosis congress for the best essay on "How to fight tuberculosis." Of the 53,000,000 square miles which the wosld’s land surface comprises. 40.000,000 are more or less continuously subject to the scourge of the hungry locust. Princess Clara of Bavaria, a niece of Prince Regent Leo|>old, is engaged to marry Baron Cornmt>rkleet. known as the richest man in Bararia. He is wbrtll about $20,01)0,000. Unofficial figures of the census of New York City give the old city, Manhattan and the Bronx, a population of 2,100,000, an increase of nearly (100,000 in ten years. The entire city is counting on 8,700,000.