Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1900 — BREVITIES, [ARTICLE]

BREVITIES,

The Sultan of Turkey lias promised to pay the (salaries of his diplomats abroad. Harriman and Vanderbilt have secured control of the Pacific, Mail Steamship Company. Lieut. Hennessey mid forty-live Sikhs were killed in u brush with Mahsud raiders at .Janola, India. The strike of Middlesboro, Ivy., has .been declared ofT. blight hundred men will return to work. King Leopold of Belgium, it w said, is to invest millions in American mines ns a partner of Thomas Walsh of Colorado. The Russian battleship Retvizan was launched at Cramp’s shipyards, Philadelphia, in the presence of a nmnlier of officials of the I’nited Stales and Russian governments. Romeo, the monster elephant of the Ringling Brothers' circus, was shot and killed nt Wichita Falls, Texas, because lie attempted to kill his keeper while being watered. Z. T. Lewis, the former i'rbana, Ohio, banker ami noted bond forger, is dead. The exact amount of his forgeries was never known, but they amounted to more than SIOO,OOO. At Whitney, (la., in a fight between Peter Harris mil Will McCoy, the latter ■was decapitated by a razor, the head being held on the shoulders by but a few shreds of flesh. D. O. Prisor. n stock dealer from Butler, Pa., was held up by highwaymen in the borough of Millvale, Pittsburg, mid robbed of $2,700. The money represented the proc«*eds of five carloads of cattle. In less than mi hour after he was arrested for robbing the poor box of the Church of Notre Dame des Lourdes nt ’Minneapolis, M. Landry was found hang ing dead in his cell. He had committed suicide. With a shock that made the earthquake for miles around, the government tnagariue at Indian Head, the largest in the world, exploded. Many lives were destroyed. The loss to the government is enormous. C. M. Cottcrinan, nxsisjbint superintend ent of railway mail servlo, with headquarters at Sun Francisco, has been selected as director general of posts in the Philippine Islands, to succeed F. W. Vnille, resigned. A company composed almost entirely of Pittsburg capitalists has been organ Izod to engage in blast furnaee and steel manufacturing institutions on n gigantic scale. The capital of the new-corpora-tion is SI2,(XXI, Mrs. Arthur Cory of Denver, Colo., will start in a few days for England to take possession of n fortune of $500,600 left to her 12-yeur-old son by bis father, Hhe goes, too, to meet u repentant husband on Ids deathbed. Jo*. Chesser, n leading lumber dealer of Bristol, Tenn., was assassinated at Norton, Va.. while going out of a hotel. The assassin has not been arrested. The population of the State of California as announced by the census bureau is 1,485,053, ns against 1,208,130 in IRJMI. representing nn increase since 1890 of 27G,923. or 22.9 per cent. i Rats three feet long and eighteen pounds in weight wore eaten in Cuba to •nstnin life by members of the Smithsonian Institution expedition, which has returned with many sjiecimons and tale* (Of at range adventure.