Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1900 — NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS.

Belle Archer, the actress, died nt Warren, Pa., of apoplexy. Paul Leicester Ford nnd Miss Grace Kidder were married in Brooklyn. The American League baseball season closed Tuesday with the Chicago club in first place. The Chicago Presbytery urges creed revision and will..vote ou the proposed reform Oct. 1. French troops were defeated by Berbers in the Sahara, losing two officers and twenty men. Diet of raw meat is adopted by a body of Chicago persons who claim it is conducive to long life. Billy "Fagan,” a noted gambler of Chicago, died at bis home shortly after his saloon was closed by the sheriff. Liverpool has undertaken to prevent the passage of rats from Glasgow as possible carriers of the bubonic plague. Secretary A. M. Moreland of the Carnegie company resigned nnd Assistant Secretary Campbell was chosen to succeed him. The schooner Arthur B, which was fitted out by a Chicago syndicate last spring, was driven on the beach at Nome in the recent storm. Edward Ix>wis and Lucian Smith were killed in the coal mines at Dorchester, iVa. They were about to leave the mine when a mass of slate fell, crushing both of them to death. Judge Giddings of the District Court at Anoka, Minn., has held James Hardy and Elmer Miller, charged with murdering the Wise family, for trial without bail. Both accused are under ngc. At Vunklwk Hill, an eastern Ontario Tillage, the stone wall of the Presbyterian Church iu course of erection collapsed while a number of men were Ujton it. Two were killed and three futully Injured. The Loudon Times confirms the report that Charles T. Yerkes has purchnsed the franchise of the Charing Cross, Euston and Hempstead underground railroad. The British steamer Gordon Castle nnd the German steamer Hturmnn met in collision In Cardigan bay nnd both vesuris sunk. Twenty of the persons on board the Gordon Caatle were lost. Rtate Bank Commissioner Brcidenthal ■t Topeka, Kan., received notice by mail of the robbery of the State Bank of Bushton. The roblter* made a clean sweep of it. taking $5.1X14 in money nnd J2O (MM) of discounts.