Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1900 — NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS.

Six inches of snow lias fallen in Montana. i It is announced that Melbourne will be the capital of confederated Australia. The Governor of Nebraska has pro claimed South Omaha a city of the first class. Prince Luknnthor of Cambodia accuses the French government of terrible cruelty in Indo-China. The presbytery of St. Paul, at Hastings, Minn., decided by a vote of 11) to 7 In favor of creed revision. At Wallace, Idaho, Matt Malloy was found in his store murdered. He lmd been killed with an iron rod. Harrietts Sathore, an actress, was killed at Toledo, n wardrobe falling upon her end causing concussion of the bruin. The Peruvian cabinet hns resigned because of the scandal in connection with jthe purchase of arms in Belgium and the disuse of government funds. The wife of George Carmack, the 'Klondike miner, whose fortune is estimated at $1,500,000, has brought suit for voreo, asking for half of the property. At Wichita, Kan., Guy Riggs, G years pld, shot bis sister, 10 years old, with a ,target gun because she would not give up |2 of bU money which she held. The girl (Was dangerously wounded. Wallace Townsend, alias Floyd, a ne gro, was burned at the Make in the little jtown of Eclectic, Ala. The negro had attacked Mrs. Lonnie Harrington, and liter husband set fire to the fuel that reduced Townsend’s body to ashes. Charles Anderson, moved by domestic “trouble, shot and killed his wife at Koek’s Hotel at Falmouth, Ky., and then shot ijhimaelf. 'The ship P. N. Illanehard of Boston, Captain Courteney, from Baltimore for Ban Francisco, had been burnt at sea and was a total loss. Her crew are safe at Falkland Islands, f The British steamship Eagle Point, from Loudon for Philadelphia, reporta jthat she collided with the British steamer Bicla, from New York for Manchesker. England, and that the latter vest,cl pank. The crew was saved.