Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1900 — NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS.

Sir Henry Aeland. British scientist, is dead, aged 85. Ex-Postmaster General William L. Wilson died suddenly at Lexington Vn. Galveston benefit in Drury Lane Theater, latndon. cleared s(i,stX) for the fund. Stories of the Dowager Empress Frederick's marriage to Baron Seekendorff have been revived mid are not denied. The London 'Times announces that Sir Alfred Milner will be appointed governor of the former South African republics. The trunk of a man’s body with head and legs severed has been found in 41 bag at Floating Bridge Pond, Lynn, Mass. A dispatch from Shanghai states that Tao-ting fu was raptured by the force of 7,000 allies sent from Pekin for that purpose. A. conference at Philadelphia resulted In an agreement to accede to demands by the mine workers' com union, which means the end of the big strike. Lord Al verstone, more widely known as Sir Bit-hard Webster, has been appointed lord chief justice of England in succession to the late Lord Bussell of Killowen. A conservative estimate of Florida’s orange crop this year placed the yield at 1,000.1)00 boxes. An extra large yield •will bo had in Manatee. Hillsboro nnd 'DeSoto Counties. Eight people were either burned to dentil or sufl’oented in a tire which partially destroyed the three-story-aud-nttie frame double tenement house 35 and 45'j Hester street, New York. “King Oscar's illness," says n dispatch to the London Daily Mail from Stockholm, “has developed into n serious Inflammation of the Jungs. The yrown prince has been appointed regent.'’ The family of the late John Clark of New York have engaged counsel to try to obtain for them the estate of his brother. Imlay Chirk, who died a few years ego in Australia, leaving a fortune estimated at SJJO,IMX),(X)O. John Hughes. postmaster nt Cauihra, I’a., shot and killed a burglar who broke into the office. There were two burglars, and when Hughes fired they ran. Lntet one of them wax found dead by the road •ide. His identity is not known. The facade of the Czech High School nt Brosxnitz, Moravia, topphsl into the Street, killing seven person;) and injuring |gn. fhas destroyed the cur sheds of the and and Eastern Electric Hallway my at Gates Mills, O. A number a and other property was burned. JLOO.OOO; covered by insurance. Widespread, damage, ns well as death to eeveral and serious Injury to many, was caused by a storm which swept over New York nnd vicinity. Three men wore killed mid six injured In the collapse us a building in Kearney, N. J.