Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1900 — NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS.

Wood workers’ strike cause manufacturers to talk of moving from Chicago. Ex-King Milan's annual pension of SG,(J(JO has been abolished by the Servian parliament. Russia disclaims having designs on Manchuria and wants no territorial indemnity from China. W. A. Eddy lannched his “kite buoy," which he hopes will be towed across the Atlantic by three kites. Alvina Bollen, 18 years old. was shot and instantly killed on Sixteenth street, Denver, by William C. Baragar, a rejected admirer. The murderer was arrested. Louis Mot and J. A. Spriggs, prominent young men, quarreled at a dunce nt Vnl loiubrosu, Tenn., and Spriggs was found later on the ground dead from a knifi stab. Mot surrendered. At Georgetown. Ky., Judge Cantrill overruled the bill of exceptions in the case of ex-Sfcrctai y of State Caleb Powers, convicted in the Goebel case, ami sentenced him to prison for life. The soda works of the Stephen Paden Company of Chicago, situated about a mile east of Laramie, Wyo.. burned to the ground. The origin of the fiiv is a mystery. The loss is about S4S,<)IH). Five iici-sons were saved from injury or death in New York by Miss Ada Mayo Rai'ey, daughter of Col. Charles 1.. RaiIcy. a well-known horseman of ladington, Ky., who stopped their runaway horse.

Coon Kiimer shot and killed Wesley Carterat Fallbnrg. Ky., in a quarrel over money matters. They met in a saloon. Carter first threw a beer glass at Kinner, whereupon the latter used his revolver. The I‘ope has sent to Monsignore i Keane, former rector of the Catholic Fid- ' vendty nt Washington, D. C., n bull, or' papal ileci’is', formally conferring upon him his rank, title and authority ns arch bikhop of Dubuque. The siege of Ladybrand has been r.tised after several des|iei’nte attempts to capture the town and its little garrison of 150 British troops. The Boers who nttacked Ladybrilud are e tiuiatcd t.i have numbered over 2,(HM) men. M. Jacques Faiirb, treasurer of ti e Aero Club, Paris, lias successfully crossed, th* channel in n balloon. He left the Crystal Palace, London, at K o'clock at night and arrived nt Alette, Pas de Calais, at 3 o'clock in the morning. An explosion of gasoline cnuseil a lire in the Fisk fcTiemciit building at Lima, Ohio. Mrs. Irwin Bachman was enveloped in flumes nnd when rescued from the building all of her clothes had burned off cxcf'pt one Mocking. She died. Former President Cleveland has accepted conditionally hi< appointment as a member of The Hague arbitration coinmission. The Otter Creek Liunlicr Company’s plant ill Hambleton, W. Va„ wa»k destroyed by fire, with 12,(HMI,G>J feet of hemlock lumber. Tin 1 loss is a quarter of a million dollars. The official figures compiled by the Northwistern Miller show that the flour output of the Minneapolis mills L«.«t yeir was 15h308,1(X>! Inirrej*. The output in IStiM was 15.31N.415 Isirri’ls. Foreign shipments increased 344,1(50 bnrrcls.