Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 November 1900 — BREVITIES. [ARTICLE]

BREVITIES.

At TTotttsvtlTiV Ky., “Cha lies Taiikenbaum, aged 29, shot and killed Mrs. Maggie Elkens, his mother-in-law. The General Assembly of Georgia in joint session elected A, O. Bacon United States Senator to succeed himself. Near Lacon, 111., Mrs. Joseph Shafer was shot and instantly killed by W. J. Unit, who was captured a few hours la ter. The general election on Tuesday resulted in the election of McKinley and Roosevelt, the Republican nominees, and gave control of Congress to that party. Three persons were killed in n railroad ■wreck near Keswick, Cal., two of the victims being James Hart of Charter Oak. I'owa, and E. J. Bowen of Castle Rock, Wash. Rev. Dr. Mills has been assassinated In U-ake County, Mississippi. Dr. Mills -was a "holiness” preacher and a stranger in Leake County, where his creed has many enemies. Before a ballot was cast in Denver the trouble between the police department and the sheriff’s office began and three men killed and three seriously wounded was the result. James Elliott, Jr., of Manchester l , N. H., committed suicide by shooting himself through the heart. He was morose because ho and his father differed in their views on politics. Julian T. B. Arnold, son of Sir Edwin Arnold,When arraigned in London, after being extradited from California, plead*d not guilty to the charge .of embezzling £14,000, and was remanded. F. F. Hodgkinson, former British viceconsul nt Bremerhaven, was remanded at London on a charge of stealing and trying to sell to a foreign country a secret code book of the foreign office Charles Davis, aged about 30 years, rfhot and killed his wife at their home at Portland, Me., and then attempted to take his own life. lie has a bullet wound in his head, but may recover. Fire completely destroyed the plant of the Franklin Foundry Company in Chicago. The building was destroyed iu less than an hour. It is not known how the fire started. The loss was $25,000. Grant Reiner and J. Ralph Griffith, gamblers, between whom ill feeling had existed for a long time, met in a saloon at Middlesboro, Ky. Each at once drew his pistol and the duel lasted until both Bien fell dead. L. P. Parish, a Chicago, Rock Island end Pacific engineer, was killed in the Union Pacific yards in Omaha, his head being struck by a passing engine. Par rtah was a prominent engineer and lived In Connell Bluffs. William John Lyne, premier and treasurer of New South Wales, has cabled Preaident M- Kinley. inviting the United States to send a detnehment of troops to participate>in the inauguration of the Australian commonwealth. J. IL Holland was shot through the head and heart al Alvarado. Texas, by Ruy Hampton and instantly killed, Both were prominent in business circles. The youngest son of Lady Yarde-Buller of Han F rancisco, Arthur Kirkham Blair, slipped quietly away to Stockton, Cal., JBui'l wits married to Miss Edna Ursula Fitzgerald, a' telephone girl. The body of Pearl Forbes, aged 20 years, was found in a ravine near her home in Ixjqvenwortb. Marks on her throat Indicated she had, been murdered by strangulation. The surroundings gave •videncc of a terrible struggle.