Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1900 — BREVITIES. [ARTICLE]

BREVITIES.

Felix Marchaml, Premier of Quebec, is dead. Galveston has issued an appeal for $1,000,000 la cash. Two trips to the south pole are being prepared for next year, one German and the other llritish. Gen.’John M. Palmer died suddenly at his home in Springfield, 111., in his eighty-third year. Count Zeppelin's air ship was broken in the middle in being taken from the balloon shed on Lake Constance. Miss May Irwin produced at New Haven with much success 'The Belle of Bridgeport," a new farce comedy. At Frankfort, Ky., James Howard was found guilty of the murder of Goebel and his punishment fixed at death. Baroness von Sehutzbar, wife,of the chamberlain toe Emperor William, says she was robbed of jewelry worth $2,000 in New York. George Humphrey, aged 44, killed himself at Croton, Ohio, with laudanum, having learned that he was to be taken to the poorhouse. Dr. Nansen and the Duke of the Ahiuzli, according to a dispateh from Clnistiuua, have agreed to undertake a joint expedition into north polar regions. The Carpenters and Joiners of America. in convention at Scranton, I'a., have rejected the referendum plan of electing officers nnd derided to meet uext year at Atlanta, Gu. Gov. Roosevelt and his campaigning party were attacked by a mob at Victor, Colo., nnd the Governor was struck by n man, who was knocked down by one Of Roosevelt’s party. Melville L. Wines, prosecuting attorney for Silver Row County, Mont., for two terms and a prominent criminal lawyrr, committed suicide by taking morphine, llw was known to have been out of his mind for •evfiral days. The Carpenters and Joiners of America, in convention at Scranton, Pa., decided to remove their headquarters from Philadelphia to Indianapolis. J. Lorey, It. Springford nnd I>. ltoberteon, on the island of Batan, one of the 'Philippine group, were* ambushed by 200 natives nnd cut to pieces by spears before they gave up. In Louisville, Ky., George Owen, 21 years old, was ahot and killed by Dr. Jiugh McCullough, the coroner of Jeffer*on County. The trouble that led to the Shooting started between the McCullough jgnd the Owen familiea over a peafowl.